Zhengquan Li

Assistant Professor, Computing & Software Systems
University of Washington Bothell

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing & Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell . My research lies broadly in computer systems, with a particular interest in building efficient systems to support modern applications, including AI and networked applications.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Michigan–Dearborn . During my Ph.D., I also had the opportunity to work with Cisco Research .

• Joined the CSS Department at UW Bothell as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!
• Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation and received Distinguished Performance ! My deepest appreciation goes to everyone who supported and helped me along the way.
• Received the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship ! Social media spotlight
• Our paper was accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2024 and received the Distinguished Paper Award!

• Tailored Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime to Enhance User-Perceived Performance [paper]
  Zhengquan Li, Zheng Song.
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025, SJR Q1.
• Always-On, Always-Mine: Federated Recommendation Systems on Personal Home Routers [paper]
  Zhengquan Li, Myungjin Lee, and Zheng Song.
  ACM/IFIP Middleware, 2025, Core Ranking A.
• Edge Cache on WiFi Access Points: Millisecond-Level App Latency Almost for Free [paper]
  Zhengquan Li, Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song, and Eli Tilevich.
  IEEE ICDCS, 2024, Core Ranking A (Distinguished Paper Award).
• Client-Specific Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime for QoS-Critical Tasks [paper]
  Zhengquan Li, Long Cheng, and Zheng Song.
  ICSOC, 2024 (Short Paper; Acceptance rate for full + short papers: 22%, Core Ranking A).

• Independent Instructor, CIS 200 II: Computer Science Introduction, UM–Dearborn. [Teaching Evaluation]
  Topics: Unix, C++, testing, abstraction, OOD, ADTs, templates, recursion.
• Guest Lecturer (3 sessions), CIS 489: Edge Computing, UM–Dearborn.
  Topics included AWS IoT tutorial, federated learning, and hands-on exercises on distributed edge intelligence.
• Teaching Assistant, CIS 427: Computer Networks and CIS 450/ECE 478: Operating Systems.

• Reviewer or external reviewer for multiple conferences and journals, including WWW 2025, ICSC 2025, ICSOC 2024, MEDES 2024, ICCCN 2024, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.

• Ph.D. Dissertation Defense — Distinguished Performance, University of Michigan–Dearborn
• 2025 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
• 2025 Ph.D. Honor Scholar Award, University of Michigan–Dearborn (one per department)
• 2024 IEEE ICDCS Distinguished Paper Award
• 2024 IEEE ICDCS NSF Travel Grant
• 2018–2020 University of Wollongong Master Scholarship (Tuition Free)

• I love music (especially Flamenco/Spanish), reading, listening to podcasts, and taking solo trips.