Qianli Dong

I am a BS/MS student in Computer Science in Northwestern at Mccormick School of Engineering
✉️ oscardong2025@u.northwestern.edu.

Research Interest: Computer Networking, MLSys

A quote I like recently: Somewhere along the way, I found a small piece of alpha, not just in the data, but in myself.

Publications

[0] Caleb Wang, Ying Zhang, Qianli Dong, Esteban Carisimo, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Fabián E. Bustamante
Threading the Ocean: Mapping Digital Routes Across Submarine Cables using Calypso
SIGCOMM '25: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference.

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[1] Jianli Jin, Ziyang Lin, Qianli Dong, Yi Chen, Jayanth Srinivasa, Myungjin Lee, Zhaowei Tan, Fan Lai
Dora: QoE-Aware Hybrid Parallelism for Distributed Edge AI
arXiv:2512.10990

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Teaching

  • (Undergrad TA) Comp_Sci 340 Computer Networking --Winter 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025
  • (Undergrad TA) Comp_Sci 339 Intro to Databases --Spring 2024
  • (Undergrad TA) Comp_Sci 327 Generative Methods --Fall 2023
  • (Project Manager) IEEE Northwestern Technical Program --2023

Education

was at  Vanderbilt University (2021-2022)