Yajie Zhou

Lesley (Yajie) Zhou

leszhou@umd.edu
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About me

I am a 4th Year PhD student at University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), advised by Prof. Alan Liu . We are working on self-driving networking systems with exciting ML-related approaches.

Prior to Boston University, I received my M.S. degree from KAIST, and my B.S. degree from Xidian University in China, majoring in Computer Science.


Publications

Towards Interactive Research Agents for Internet Incident Investigation
Yajie Zhou*, Nengneng Yu, Zaoxing Liu
ACM HotNets 2023.

Enhancing Network Management Using Code Generated by Large Language Models
Sathiya Kumaran Mani, Yajie Zhou*, Kevin Hsieh, Santiago Segarra, Trevor Eberl, Eliran Azulai, Ido Frizler, Ranveer Chandra, Srikanth Kandula.
ACM HotNets 2023.

Genet: Automatic Curriculum Generation for Learning Adaptation in Networking
Zhengxu Xia*, Yajie Zhou*, Francis Y. Yan, Junchen Jiang (*co-first author)
ACM SIGCOMM August 2022.
Link to talk: SIGCOMM-Genet

Summary for Genet: Genet is a novel training framework that enhances the performance and generalization of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in networking and systems. Genet builds on curriculum learning with judicious use of rule-based baselines. It substantially improves the performance and generalization of simulation-trained RL algorithms under unseen workloads and in real environments.


Work Experience