Pinghe Li

About

I am a first-year doctoral student with Ana Klimovic in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich. My interests span cloud computing, operating systems, and computer architecture. Currently, I am working on serverless data analytics and AI code generation for distributed systems, leveraging declarative programming abstractions.

I obtained my master’s degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, and bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China. I also did an internship at Microsoft Research Asia, where I worked with Chieh-Jan Mike Liang and Francis Y. Yan on ML-assisted resource management for cloud microservices.

Publications

End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure

Pinghe Li*, Tom Kuchler*, Marko Kabić*, Tobias Stocker*, Gustavo Alonso, Ana Klimovic (* equal contribution).

To appear in Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) , January 2026
Unlocking True Elasticity for the Cloud-Native Era with Dandelion

Tom Kuchler, Pinghe Li, Yazhuo Zhang, Lazar Cvetković, Boris Goranov, Tobias Stocker, Leon Thomm, Simone Kalbermatter, Tim Notter, Andrea Lattuada, Ana Klimovic.

ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) , October 2025
Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices

Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Feng Wu, Francis Y. Yan.

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , April 2024

Outstanding Paper Award