Yipeng Liu (刘怡鹏)

👋I am a second-year master student in Nanjing University who works on AI Infra and Computer Networking. Email me if you are interested in my experience.

"Don't be impetuous" - Yue Li


Education

Nanjing University(NJU), China

Master of Engineering
Computer Technology
Advisor: Jiaqi Zheng

GPA: -

September 2024 - June 2027

Chongqing University(CQU), China

Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science and Technology

GPA: 3.83/4.00

September 2020 - June 2024

Experience

Moonshot AI

Intern
April 2026 - Present

Huawei Noah's Ark Lab / Huawei Foundation Model Systems Engineering Lab

Intern
June 2025 - April 2026

Papers

UBEP: Re-architecting Expert Parallelism Communication Library for Production Superpods

Yipeng Liu, Chang Liu, Si Shen, Jiaqi Zheng, Mingfan Li, Yuyang Yang, Guanhua Li, Yuquan Zhang, Yimeng Xu, Zhongzhe Hu, Zhiyuan Huang, Qihang Duan, Junsong Wang, Wenkai Ling, Baochuan Yang, Xianzhi Yu, Han Bao, Yijie Chen, Guihai Chen.
In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Denver, Colorado, USA, August 17-21, 2026.

Research Interests

  • Interconnect for AI clusters: Scale-up Networks (e.g. NVLink, UEC, UALink), Scale-out Networks (e.g. RDMA)
  • High-performance xPU communication library: Collective Communication (e.g. NCCL, UCCL, DeepEP), M2N Communication (e.g. StepMesh)
  • LLM Inference: Inference Framework (e.g. vLLM, SGLang), Computation and Communication Overlap (e.g. Triton-distributed)
  • LLM Post-training: RLHF Framework (e.g. veRL, slime)

Contests

The ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest (Hangzhou)

Silver Award

December 2022

The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

Finalist Award

May 2022

CodeCraft

Second Place

April 2024

CCF Big Data&Computing Intelligence Contest (CCF-BDCI)

Second Prize

December 2023

CCF AI-Computing Network Challenge (CCF-ACNC)

Third Prize

September 2025

Services

Teaching Assistant

Numerical Computing and Optimization
with associate professor Jing Wen
February 2024 - June 2024

Teaching Assistant

Computer Networks
with associate professor Jiaqi Zheng
February 2025 - June 2025

Awards

Scholarships

  • National Scholarship
  • Xiaomi Scholarship
  • Huawei Intelligent Base Scholarship
  • Nanjing Keyuan Alumni Scholarship
  • Chongqing University Scholarship(A)
  • Shenzhen Stock Exchange Scholarship

Titles & Honors

  • Top Ten Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Advanced Individuals of CQU
  • Outstanding Graduate of CQU
  • Outstanding Graduate of Chongqing
  • Outstanding Graduate Students of NJU