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Danyang Zhuo

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
LSRC D313, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Member of Duke Systems Group

Research interests are (1) datacenter and cloud computing and (2) machine learning systems.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2020 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


LLM.265: Video Codecs are Secretly Tensor Codecs

Conference Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture Micro · October 17, 2025 As the parameter size of large language models (LLMs) continues to expand, the need for a large memory footprint and high communication bandwidth have become significant bottlenecks for the training and inference of LLMs. To mitigate these bottlenecks, var ... Full text Cite

Can Large Language Models Verify System Software? A Case Study Using FSCQ as a Benchmark

Conference HOTOS 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop in Hot Topics in Operating Systems · June 6, 2025 Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable coding capabilities. They excel in code synthesis benchmarks across diverse domains and have become ubiquitous in coding tools. Recently, they have also shown promise in generating mathematical proo ... Full text Cite

Rethinking RPC Communication for Microservices-based Applications

Conference HOTOS 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop in Hot Topics in Operating Systems · June 6, 2025 Fast and efficient RPCs are key to the performance of applications based on microservices. But RPC communication suffers from significant overhead today because it relies on the standard, layered protocol stack and loose coupling between the end host and i ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CAREER: OS-Managed Remote Procedure Call for Datacenter Applications

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

Collaborative Research: NeTS: Medium: Application Defined Networking

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

CC* Integration-Large: Scaling Scientific Workloads on Distributed Commodity GPUs and Storage through Campus-level RDMA Networking

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2027

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Washington · 2019 Ph.D.

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