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Pisces Lab

Jianshu Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Email: jliu11@sdsu.edu

Webpage: https://jianshuliu1721.github.io/

September 2026

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  • Mission:
    • Achieving good performance and high resource efficiency for continuously evolving systems in cloud environments

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Performant, Intelligent, Scalable Computing with Evolving Systems Lab

  • Our Core Research Paradigm

Investigate

Solve

Develop

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Phase I: System Development

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E-commercial Web Apps (Microservices)

IoT Data Streaming Systems

  • Architecting and deploying diverse cloud systems

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Phase I: System Development

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Scientific Data Analytics Systems

  • Architecting and deploying diverse cloud systems

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Edge-Cloud Continuum HealthCare Systems

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Example: ADT Platform for Traffic Simulation

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https://github.com/PiscesLab

Check our GitHub repo:

Dr. Paulo Silva from IT4I

2,143,992 points

9,898 vehicles

15,188 vehicles at 7:45 am

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Phase II: Empirical Investigation

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  • Employing timeline analysis to research performance anomalies

Impact of soft resources over-allocation

[IPDPS’20, TPDS’22, Middleware’23, SoCC’23]

Millibottlenecks caused by synrchonization

[Middleware’22, DEBS’26]

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Phase III: Intelligent Solutions

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  • Designing strategies to mitigate performance variations
  • For example:
    • Proactive Threads Management

(Advanced RocksDB allocation strategies) [DEBS’26]

    • Intelligent Auto-scaling Framework

(Introduced soft resource adaptation) [Middleware’23, SoCC’23]

    • Flink Schema Re-implementation

(Upgraded RocksDB flushing/compaction) [Middleware’22]

    • Async Driver Architecture

(Optimized HTTP datastore requests) [Middleware’20]

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Collaborate with Pisces Lab�

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Feel free to check out our current projects :)