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Hey, this is Qianli. I am currently a Ph.D. Student at the PEI Lab of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Song Guo. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

🔥 News

[Feb. 2026] Our work "KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference" is accepted by SIGMOD 2026.

[Dec. 2025] Our work "DIRECTOR: Accelerating Distributed MoE Serving via Online Proactive Expert Placement" is accepted by INFOCOM 2026.

[Dec. 2025] Our work "PPAI: Enabling Personalized LLM Agent Interoperability for Collaborative Edge Intelligence" is accepted by INFOCOM 2026.

[Dec. 2024] Our work "MELL: Memory-Efficient Large Language Model Serving via Multi-GPU KV Cache Management" is accepted by INFOCOM 2025.

[Sep. 2024] Started Ph.D. in CSE@HKUST, supervised by Prof. Song Guo.

[Jun. 2024] Received B.Sc. in Computing (First Class Honours) with Applied Mathematics minor from PolyU.

📃 Publication

[1]

KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference

Jian Lin, Jiazhi Mi, Zicong Hong, Haodong Wang, Qianli Liu, Haoyue Zhang, Peng Li, and Song Guo

ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2026

[Paper]

[2]

DIRECTOR: Accelerating Distributed MoE Serving via Online Proactive Expert Placement

Qianli Liu, Kaibin Guo, Zicong Hong, Peng Li, Fahao Chen, Haodong Wang, Jian Lin, and Song Guo

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2026

[Paper]

[3]

PPAI: Enabling Personalized LLM Agent Interoperability for Collaborative Edge Intelligence

Zile Wang*, Qianli Liu*, Kaibin Guo, Haodong Wang, Jian Lin, Zicong Hong, and Song Guo (* indicates equal contribution)

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2026

[Paper]

[4]

MELL: Memory-Efficient Large Language Model Serving via Multi-GPU KV Cache Management

Qianli Liu, Zicong Hong, Peng Li, Fahao Chen, and Song Guo

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2025

[Paper]

👨‍🏫 Teaching Experience

COMP1021: Introduction to Computer Science(Teaching Assistant)

2025 Spring · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

COMP1021: Introduction to Computer Science(Teaching Assistant)

2025 Fall · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

🏅 Award

HKUST Postgraduate Studentship 2024.12.06

🎓 Academic Service

IEEE ICDCS, IEEE TPDS

Reviewer · 2025