Fuliang Li (李福亮), Professor of Northeastern University. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Northeastern University in 2009 and was directly admitted to Tsinghua University’s Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace as a Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Professor Wu Jianping (吴建平). I earned my Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2015. Now, I work with Professor Xingwei Wang (王兴伟). My main research interests include computer networks, as well as the bridging between networking and AI.

🔥 News

2025.12: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉We have one paper accepted by NSDI 2026 [CCF A].
2025.12: 🎉🎉 We have two papers accepted by INFOCOM 2026 [CCF A].
2025.11: 🎉🎉 We have one paper accepted by AAAI [CCF A].
2025.09: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 IEEE ICNP 2025 Best Paper Award.
2025.08: 🎉🎉 We have two papers accepted by TC [CCF A].
2025.07: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉We have one paper accepted by SIGCOMM 2025 [CCF A].
2025.07: 🎉🎉 We have some papers accepted by ICNP [CCF B].
2025.07: 🎉🎉 IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025 Best Student Paper Runner-up
2025.07: 🎉🎉 We have one paper accepted by TON [CCF A].
2025.06: 🎉🎉 We have one paper accepted by COMNET [CCF B].
2025.06: 🎉🎉 We have one paper accepted by TC [CCF A]
2025.05: 🎉🎉 We have another paper accepted by TON [CCF A].
2025.05: 🎉🎉 We have one paper accepted by TON [CCF A].
2025.04: 🎉🎉 We have some papers accepted by IWQoS 2025 [CCF B].
2025.03: 🎉🎉 We have another paper published by TMC [CCF A].
2025.02: 🎉🎉 We have one paper published by TMC [CCF A].

📖 Educations

Jan, 2015 - Now, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
Aug, 2009 - Jun, 2015, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Sep, 2005 - Jul, 2009, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.

💡 Honors and Awards

2025年获辽宁省杰出科技青年奖
2025年获华为公司“难题揭榜”火花奖
2024年入选国家级青年人才计划
2024年入选辽宁省青年拔尖人才
IEEE ICNP 2025 Best Paper Award
IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025 Best Student Paper Runner-up

📝 Publications

+indicates equal contribution.

#indicates corresponding author.

2026

HeteCCL: Synthesizing Near-Optimal Collective Communication Schedules for Heterogeneous GPU Clusters. Chenyang Hei, Fuliang Li#, Jiayi Li, Jiamin Cao, Chengxi Gao, Xiuzhu Sha, Tongrui Liu, Dengke Zhang, Ennan Zhai, Xingwei Wang. The USENIX Symposium on Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2026). [CCF A，东北大学首篇]
ConnSched: Selective Connection Offloading Framework for Accelerating Stateful NFs with DPU. Songlin Chen, Fuliang Li#, Qin Chen, Chengxi Gao, Man Hou, Jiaxing Shen. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026). [CCF A]
One-Sketch: A Unified Framework for Per-Flow Cardinality Measurement with Flexible Bias Control. Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, Haorui Wan, Songlin Chen, Man Hou. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026). [CCF A]
ELSPR: Evaluator LLM Training Data Self-Purification on Non-Transitive Preferences via Tournament Graph Reconstruction. Yan Yu, Yilun Liu, Minggui He, Shimin Tao, Weibin Meng, Xinhua Yang, Li Zhang, Hongxia Ma, Dengye Li, Daimeng Wei, Boxing Chen, Fuliang Li#. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). [CCF A]

2025

ResCCL: Resource-Efficient Scheduling for Collective Communication. Tongrui Liu+, Chenyang Hei+, Fuliang Li#, Chengxi Gao, Jianmin Cao, Tianshu Wang, Ennan Zhai, Xingwei Wang. ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2025). [CCF A，东北大学首篇]
NetKG: Synthesizing Interpretable Network Router Configurations with Knowledge Graph. Zhenbei Guo, Fuliang Li#, Peng Zhang, Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). [CCF A]
FSA-Hash: Flow-Size-Aware Sketch Hashing for Software Switches. Fuliang Li, Kejun Guo, Yiming Lv, Jiaxing Shen, Yuting Liu, Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). [CCF A]
RA-Sketch: A Unified Framework for Rapid and Accurate Sketch Configurations. Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Yuting Liu, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2025) . [CCF B，清华大学A类，唯一最佳论文]
MEC-Sketch: Memory-Efficient Per-Flow Cardinality Measurement in High-Speed Networks. Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Yunjie Zhang, Haorui Wan, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2025). [CCF B，清华大学A类]
TuCCL: Tailored and Unified Configuration Optimizations for High-Performance Collective Communication Library. Ziming Li, Chenyang Hei, Fuliang Li#, Tongrui Liu, Chengxi Gao, Xiuzhu Sha, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2025). [CCF B，清华大学A类][pdf]
Canvas: Scalable Collective Communication Scheduling for Large-Scale GPU Clusters. Chenyang Hei, Yi Zhao, Fuliang Li#, Chengxi Gao, Tongrui Liu, Xiuzhu Sha, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2025). [CCF B，清华大学A类]
MAZ3: Memory-Assisted ZeRO-3 for Efficient Collective Communication. Yang Liu+, Chenyang Hei+, Fuliang Li#, Chengxi Gao, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2025). [CCF B，清华大学A类]
INT-Source: Topology-adaptive In-band Network-wide Telemetry. Fuliang Li, Qianchen Yuan, Yuhua Lai, Zhenbei Guo, Elliott Wen, Tian Pan, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) . [CCF A]
RTQS: Real-Time flow Fairness Queue Scheduling Policy on Router Devices. Hong Zhang, Zhenge Xu, Feixue Han, Fuliang Li#, Qing Li. Computer Networks. [CCF B]
SCC: Synchronization Congestion Control for Multi-tenant Learning over Geo-distributed Clouds. Chengxi Gao, Fuliang Li, Kejiang Ye, Yang Wang, Pengfei Wang, Xingwei Wang, Cheng-Zhong Xu. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). [CCF A]
NetGenius: Routing Configuration Recommendation Based on Graph Neural Network. Zhenbei Guo, Fuliang Li#, Tangzheng Xie, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) . [CCF A]
INT-Partition: Hierarchical and Fault-tolerant In-band Network Telemetry. Qianchen Yuan, Fuliang Li#, Tian Pan, Yuhua Lai, Yetao Gu, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) . [CCF A]
Intelligent Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Knowledge Defined Edge Computing Networks. Chuangchuang Zhang, Qiang He, Fuliang Li, Keping Yu. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). [CCF A]
Power Optimization for Low Transmission Delay in Software Defined Data Center Networks. Yong Zhao, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, Fuliang Li, Qiang He, Xiaojie Liu. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). [CCF A]
REP4: Automated Testing and Repairing Programmable Data Planes. Wen Li, Chuyuan Liu, Fuliang Li#, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B]
SmartTC: A Real-Time ML-Based Traffic Classification with SmartNIC. Lingxiang Hu+, Chenyang Hei+, Fuliang Li#, Chengxi Gao, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B]
Automatically Mining the Causality between Network Configurations and Routing Behaviors. Fuliang Li, Tangzheng Xie, Bocheng Liang, Zhenbei Guo, Haozhi Lang, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B]
NetMAS: Efficient Network Configuration Translation with Multi-Agent System. Chenyang Liu, Fuliang Li#, Naigong Zheng, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B]
LA-Sketch: An Adaptive Level-Aware Sketch for Efficient Network Traffic Measurement. Yuting Liu, Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B, 最佳学生论文提名奖]
ConfigChecker: Automated Network Configuration Validation with Large Language Model and Knowledge Graph. Fuliang Li, Jie Zhong, Bocheng Liang, Zhenbei Guo, Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025). [CCF B]

2024

Distributed Sketch Deployment for Software Switches. Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang and Jiannong Cao. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). [CCF A]
Performance Characteristics and Guidelines of Offloading Middleboxes onto BlueField-2 DPU. Fuliang Li, Qin Chen, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). [CCF A]
AutoSRv6: Configuration Synthesis for Segment Routing over IPv6. Bocheng Liang, Fuliang Li#, Naigong Zheng, Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). [CCF A]
Explainable Network Verification. Fuliang Li, Minglong Li, Yunhang Pu, Yuxin Zhang, Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). [CCF A].
MTU-Adaptive In-Band Network-Wide Telemetry. Fuliang Li, Qianchen Yuan, Tian Pan, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2315-2330. [CCF A] [pdf].
Learning-Based Sketch for Adaptive and High-Performance Network Measurement. Fuliang Li, Yiming Lv, Yangsheng Yan, Chengxi Gao, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2571-2585. [CCF A] [pdf].
Distributed Program Deployment for Resource-aware Programmable Switches. Fuliang Li, Songlin Chen, Xingxin Jia, Chengxi Gao, Pengfei Wang, Xingwei Wang, and Jiannong Cao. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 1357-1370. [CCF A] [pdf].
Human-Intent-Driven Cellular Configuration Generation Using Program Synthesis. Fuliang Li, Chenyang Hei, Jiaxing Shen, Qing Li, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 658-668. [CCF A] [pdf].
Effective Network-Wide Traffic Measurement: A Lightweight Distributed Sketch Deployment. Fuliang Li, Kejun Guo, Jiaxing Shen, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2024). [CCF A] [pdf].
FlowValve+: Multi-queue Packet Scheduling Framework on SoC-based SmartNICs. Shaoke Xi, Fuliang Li#, Lingxiang Hu, Xingwei Wang, Kui Ren. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) . [CCF A] [pdf]
ConfigTrans: Network Configuration Translation Based on Large Language Models and Constraint Solving. Naigong Zheng, Fuliang Li#, Ziming Li, Yu Yang, Yimo Hao, Chenyang Liu, Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2024). [CCF B，清华大学A类]
Advancing Sketch-based Network Measurement: A General, Fine-Grained, Bit-Adaptive Sliding Window Framework. Kejun Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2024). [CCF B] [pdf].
Routing Optimization With Deep Reinforcement Learning in Knowledge Defined Networking. Qiang He, Yu Wang, Xingwei Wang#, Weiqiang Xu, Fuliang Li#, Kaiqi Yang, and Lianbo Ma. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1444-1455. [CCF A] [pdf].
Minder: Faulty Machine Detection for Large-scale Distributed Model Training. Yangtao Deng, Xiang Shi, Zhuo Jiang, Xingjian Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Bo Li, Zuquan Song, Hang Zhu, Gaohong Liu, Fuliang Li, Shuguang Wang, Haibin Lin, Jianxi Ye, Minlan Yu. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2025). [CCF A]
AutoSketch: Automatic Sketch-Oriented Compiler for Query-driven Network Telemetry. Haifeng Sun, Qun Huang, Jinbo Sun, Wei Wang, Jiaheng Li, Fuliang Li, Yungang Bao, Xin Yao, Gong Zhang. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2024). [CCF A] [pdf]
Server-Initiated Federated Unlearning to Eliminate Impacts of Low-Quality Data. Pengfei Wang, Wei Song, Heng Qi, Changjun Zhou, Fuliang Li, Yong Wang, Peng Sun, Qiang Zhang. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1196-1211. [CCF A] [pdf]

2023

RED: Distributed Program Deployment for Resource-aware Programmable Switches. Xingxin Jia, Fuliang Li#, Songlin Chen, Chengxi Gao, Pengfei Wang, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2023). [CCF A] [pdf].
NetDiceSyn: Multi-Property Probabilistic Verification of Network Configurations. Renrui Liu, Fuliang Li#, Chengxi Gao, Ce Ji, and Xingwei Wang . IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2023). [CCF B] [pdf].
Opportunities and Implementation of Neural Machine Translation for Network Configuration. Fuliang Li, Jiajie Zhang, Minglong Li, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE Network, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 82-89. [pdf].
ConfigReco: Network configuration recommendation with graph neural networks. Zhenbei Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, Tangzheng Xie, Shan Jiang, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE Network, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 7-14. [pdf].
NetCR: Knowledge Graph Based Recommendation Framework for Manual Network Configuration. Zhenbei Guo, Fuliang Li#, Jiaxing Shen, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 12941-12952. [pdf].

2022

TalentSketch: LSTM-based Sketch for Adaptive and High-Precision Network Measurement. Yangsheng Yan, Fuliang Li#, Wei Wang, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE 30th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2022). [CCF B] [pdf].
INT-Segment: MTU-Adaptive Single-Path In-Band Network-Wide Telemetry. Qianchen Yuan, Fuliang Li#, Tian Pan, Yuhua Lai, Yetao Gu, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE 30th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2022). [CCF B] [pdf].
INT-react: An O(E) Path Planner for Resilient Network-Wide Telemetry Over Megascale Networks. Qianchen Yuan, Fuliang Li#, Tian Pan, Yifan Xu, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE 30th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2022). [CCF B] [pdf].
FlowValve: Packet Scheduling Offloaded on NP-based SmartNICs. Shaoke Xi, Fuliang Li#, and Xingwei Wang. IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022). [CCF B] [pdf].
Queueing Theory over OpenvSwitch: Performance Analysis and Optimization. Fuliang Li, Naigong Zheng, Yuchao Zhang, Yishuang Ning, and Xingwei Wang. International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2022), vol 12994. [pdf].

2021

Applying Buffer to SDN Switches: Benefits Analysis and Mechanism Design. Fuliang Li, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, Yinchu Sun, Tian Pan, and Xuefeng Liug. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 54-65. [pdf].
ATM: An active-detection trust mechanism for VANETs based on blockchain. Fuliang Li, Zhenbei Guo, Changsheng Zhang, Weichao Li, and Yi Wang. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 4011-4021. [pdf].
A measurement study on device-to-device communication technologies for IIoT. Fuliang Li, Zhenbei Guo, Bocheng Liang, Xiushuang Yi, and Xingwei Wang. Computer Networks, vol. 192, pp. 1389-1286. [pdf].
Energy-saving Optimization Mechanism for WiFi Direct Based on Power Control. GUO Zhen-Bei, LI Fu-Liang#, LIANG Bo-Cheng, ZHANG Xiao-Rui, SUN Lei. Journal of Software, vol. 32, issue. 8, pp. 2439-2456. [pdf].

2020

CMU: Towards Cooperative Content Caching with User Device in Mobile Edge Networks. Zhenbei Guo, Fuliang Li#, Yuchao Zhang, Changsheng Zhang, Tian Pan, Weichao Li, and Yi Wang. International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), vol 12406. [pdf].
Software-defined networking-assisted content delivery at edge of mobile social networks. Fuliang Li, Yaoguang Lu, Xingwei Wang, Yuanguo Bi, Tian Pan, Yuchao Zhang, Weichao Li, and Yi Wang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 8122-8132. [pdf].
A Local Communication System over Wi-Fi Direct: Implementation and Performance Evaluation. Fuliang Li, Xingwei Wang, Zijian Wang, Jianong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Yuanguo Bi, Weichao Li, and Yi Wang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 5140-5158. [pdf].
State-of-the-art Survey of Intent-based Networking. LI Fu-Liang, FAN Guang-Yu, WANG Xing-Wei, LIU Shu-Cheng, XIE Kun, SUN Qiong Journal of Software, vol. 31, issue. 8, pp. 2574-2687. [pdf].
Reliable Fog-based Crowdsourcing: A Temporal-Spatial Task Allocation Approach. Yao Yu, Fuliang Li#, Shumei Liu, Jinli Huang, and Lei Guo. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 3968-3976. [pdf].

💡 Projects

国家自然科学基金面上项目、2026.01-2029.12、项目负责人
国家自然科学基金面上项目、基于意图的网络配置综合系统关键技术研究、2021.01-2024.12、项目负责人
国家自然科学基金联合基金重点项目、面向算力网络的智能服务质量控制架构与关键技术研究、 2023.01-2026.12、单位课题负责人
国家自然科学基金青年基金项目、移动社交网络中基于社交关系的新型路由机制研究、2017.01-2019.12、项目负责人
国家重点研发计划子课题、面向智能路由的高精度网络状态感知、2020.01-2023.12、子课题负责人
国家重点研发计划子课题、互联网基础行为大规模精确测量方法学、2019.07-2022.06、子课题负责人
华为公司合作项目、拓扑亲和集合通信自动生成技术合作项目、2025.06-2026.06、项目负责人
华为公司合作项目、AI大语言模型配置翻译合作项目、2024.10-2025.10、项目负责人
华为公司合作项目、HON Connect可靠远场P2P多路聚合技术研究合作项目、2021.10-2024.03、项目负责人
华为公司合作项目、网络验证智库（配置综合与DSL）项目、2023.07-2024.07、项目负责人
华为公司合作项目、基于网络意图的配置自动生成技术合作项目、2020.08-2021.08、项目负责人
华为公司合作项目、路由意图&配置综合技术合作项目、2018.12-2019.12、项目负责人
字节跳动合作项目、基于交换机INT技术的高性能监控和智能故障定位与恢复系统的研究与应用、2023.03-2024.08、项目负责人
蚂蚁集团合作项目、高性能异构集合通信优化与协同调度技术、2025.03-2026.03、项目负责人
阿里巴巴合作项目、基于模糊测试的可编程数据平面错误检测、2023.04-2024.04、项目负责人
中国电信合作项目、增强智能调度算法、2021.10-2022.10、项目负责人