Shangshu Qian
Shangshu Qian works at Google in Seattle, where he tackles applied research problems in distributed systems reliability, fault diagnosis, and performance across Google Cloud’s core infrastructure. His work bridges systems research with production scale, focusing on cascading failure mitigation and system dependability.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University, co-advised by Prof. Lin Tan and Prof. Yongle Zhang. His research spans distributed systems, machine learning systems, and software dependability, with papers in ASE, ICSE, EuroSys, NeurIPS, and ACL. He regularly serves on program committees for top venues including ICML, NeurIPS, and AAAI.
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CSnake: Detecting Self-Sustaining Cascading Failure via Causal Stitching of Fault Propagations
Lin Tan
Yongle Zhang
Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Computer Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (2026), 1945–1963
