Liuzixuan Lin

ABOUT ME

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Hi, my name is Liuzixuan (Peter) Lin (Chinese: 林刘子轩, Pronunciation: lin lieu tzi shuan). I'm a CS PhD student at the University of Chicago, and I'm working on the Zero-carbon Cloud project with Prof. Andrew A. Chien as advisor. I'm interested in Data Analytics and Systems in general.

I got my bachelor in Computer Science from Peking University in 2019, with a double major in Economics.

PROJECTS

Zero-carbon Cloud
The University of Chicago

We are exploring the opportunity of exploiting a growing phenomenon called "stranded power" in power grids to meet the increasing power demands of data centers and reduce their carbon footprint.

2019.10 - CURRENT

Inferring Urban Regions’ Functions Based on Social Media Text Analysis
Peking Univeristy

We extracted information from microblogs (Sina Weibo) with location tags to infer the topics in a region (e.g., food, travel) with NLP methods (e.g. LSTM for sentiment classification). A case study of Beijing was conducted to verify the availability of our method.

Undergraduate Thesis: The implementation of a knowledge graph-based urban geo-semantics mining system (in Chinese, outstanding undergraduate thesis, PKU EECS)

2018.2 - 2019.5

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Exploding AI Power Use: an Opportunity to Rethink Grid Planning and Management
Liuzixuan Lin, Rajini Wijayawardana, Varsha Rao, Hai Nguyen, Wedan Emmanuel Gnibga, Andrew A. Chien. ACM e-Energy 2024. (Best Notes Paper Candidate) [Link]

Adapting Datacenter Capacity for Greener Datacenters and Grid
Liuzixuan Lin, Andrew A. Chien. ACM e-Energy 2023. (Best Paper Runner-up, Highlighted by Prof. David Irwin, Chair of SIGEnergy as "Best paper I've read last year") [Link]

Evaluating Coupling Models for Cloud Datacenters and Power Grids
Liuzixuan Lin, Victor M. Zavala, Andrew A. Chien. ACM e-Energy 2021. [Link][Poster]

Automated Classification of Power Plants by Generation Type
Liuzixuan Lin, Andrew A. Chien. ACM e-Energy 2020. [Link] [Poster]

WORKSHOP PAPERS

Reducing the Carbon Impact of Generative AI Inference (today and in 2035)
Andrew A. Chien, Liuzixuan Lin, Hai Nguyen, Varsha Rao, Tristan Sharma, Rajini Wijayawardana. ACM HotCarbon 2023 Workshop. [Link]

Beyond PUE: Flexible Datacenters Empowering the Cloud to Decarbonize
Andrew A. Chien, Chaojie Zhang, Liuzixuan Lin, Varsha Rao. USENIX HotCarbon 2022 Workshop. [Link]

TECHNICAL REPORT

Characterizing Stranded Power in the ERCOT in Years 2012-2019: A Preliminary Report
Liuzixuan Lin, Andrew A. Chien. UChicago CS Tech Report, 2020. [Link]

INTERNSHIP

Research Intern
Microsoft Azure, Azure Research - Systems

2024.6 - 2024.9

Research Intern
Microsoft Research Redmond, Systems Research

2022.6 - 2022.9

SELECTED AWARDS

Crerar Fellowship for incoming PhD students
The University of Chicago, 2019

Excellent Graduate
Peking University, 2019

Yang Fuqing & Wang Yangyuan Academician Scholarship
Peking University, 2018

CONTACT

Email
lzixuan@uchicago.edu

Address
5730 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60637
United States of America