📚 Haiyu Huang is currently a research assistant at Sun Yat-Sen University, advised by Professor Pengfei Chen. Previously, he received a B.E. in CSE from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2023. He has interned at Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and Ant Group in Cloud Native Application Performance Management related departments, developing algorithms and solving real-world problems.

💡 His research interest lies in microservices reliabilty (e.g., developing observability tools for cloud systems.), AI for DevOps (e.g., automating software debugging and troubleshooting during development or operations, especially using LLMs) and MLOps (e.g., automating AI system operations).

🔥 News

  • 2024.12:  🎉🎉 Our paper “Conan: Uncover Consensus Issues in Distributed Databases Using Fuzzing-driven Fault Injection” was accepted by SANER’25 Research Track.
  • 2024.10:  🎉🎉 Our paper “Mint: Cost-Efficient Tracing with All Requests Collection via Commonality and Variability Analysis” was accepted by ASPLOS’25 Research Track.
  • 2024.08:  🎉🎉 Our paper “FaaSConf: QoS-aware Hybrid Resources Configuration for Serverless Workflows” was accepted by ASE’24 Research Track.
  • 2024.07:  🎉🎉 Our paper “FaaSRCA: Full Lifecycle Root Cause Analysis for Serverless Applications” was accepted by ISSRE’24 Research Track.
  • 2024.06:  🎉🎉 Our paper “TraStrainer: Adaptive Sampling for Distributed Traces with System Runtime State” has won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award 🏆.
  • 2024.01:  🎉🎉 Our paper “TraStrainer: Adaptive Sampling for Distributed Traces with System Runtime State” was accepted by FSE’24 Research Track.
  • 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Our LLM-based AIOps solutions won 3rd place🥉 in the 2023 CCF International AIOps Challenge (ranking 1st🏅 among student teams).

📝 Publications

  •   ASPLOS ‘25  Mint: Cost-Efficient Tracing with All Requests Collection via Commonality and Variability Analysis

    Haiyu Huang, Cheng Chen, Kunyi Chen, Pengfei Chen, Guangba Yu, Zilong He, Yilun Wang, Huxing Zhang and Qi Zhou.

    The ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March-April 2025.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

  •   FSE ‘24   Distinguished Paper Award TraStrainer: Adaptive Sampling for Distributed Traces with System Runtime State

    Haiyu Huang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Zilong He, Zhiming Chen, Guangba Yu, Hongyang Chen and Chen Sun.

    The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, July 2024.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

  •   Arxiv  TraGraphRCA: Practical Multi-Level Root Cause Analysis for Microservice with Trace-Graph Fusion

    Haiyu Huang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Guangba Yu, Zilong He, Qiuai Fu and Michael R. Lyu.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

  •   ASE ‘24  FaaSConf: QoS-aware Hybrid Resources Configuration for Serverless Workflows

    Yilun Wang, Pengfei Chen, Hui Dou, Guangba Yu, Zilong He and Haiyu Huang.

    The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, California, United States, October 2024.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

  •   SANER ‘25  Conan: Uncover Consensus Issues in Distributed Databases Using Fuzzing-driven Fault Injection

    Haojia Huang, Pengfei Chen, Guangba Yu, Haiyu Huang, Jia Chang, Jun Li and Jian Han.

    The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 2025.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

  •   ISSRE ‘24  FaaSRCA: Full Lifecycle Root Cause Analysis for Serverless Applications

    Jin Huang, Pengfei Chen, Guangba Yu, Yilun Wang, Haiyu Huang and Zilong He.

    The 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan, October 2024.

    [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [DOI]

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.10 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China.
  • 2024.06 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award, FSE 2024.
  • 2023.12 3rd Prize, CCF International AIOps Challenge (Ranked 1st among student teams) (As Team Leader).
  • 2020.10 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China.

📖 Educations

  • 2023.09 - (now), research assistant, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, Bachelor degree, Sun Yat-Sen University

💬 Services

  • Reviewer: WWW 2024