Lianmin Zheng

Lianmin Zheng

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (STARTING ON JULY 1, 2026)
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Engineering VI - Room 277

Email: lmzheng@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-3321
Fax: (310) 825-2273

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Systems for training and serving large models
  • Open large language models, benchmarks and datasets for large language models
  • Deep learning compilers and auto-tuning
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
  • SGLang: Efficient Execution of Structured Language Model Programs, NeurIPS 2024. Lianmin Zheng, Liangsheng Yin, Zhiqiang Xie, Jeff Huang, Chuyue Sun, Cody Hao Yu, Shiyi Cao, Christos Kozyrakis, Ion Stoica, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Clark Barrett, Ying Sheng.
  • Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena, NeurIPS 2023. Lianmin Zheng, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ying Sheng, Siyuan Zhuang, Zhanghao Wu, Yonghao Zhuang, Zi Lin, Zhuohan Li, Dacheng Li, Eric P. Xing, Hao Zhang, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica.
  • Alpa: Automating Inter- and Intra-Operator Parallelism for Distributed Deep Learning, OSDI 2022. Lianmin Zheng, Zhuohan Li, Hao Zhang, Yonghao Zhuang, Zhifeng Chen, Yanping Huang, Yida Wang, Yuanzhong Xu, Danyang Zhuo, Eric P. Xing, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica.
  • Ansor: Generating High-Performance Tensor Programs for Deep Learning, OSDI 2020. Lianmin Zheng, Chengfan Jia, Minmin Sun, Zhao Wu, Cody Hao Yu, Ameer Haj-Ali, Yida Wang, Jun Yang, Danyang Zhuo, Koushik Sen, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica.
  • Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference, ICML 2024. Wei-Lin Chiang, Lianmin Zheng, Ying Sheng, Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos, Tianle Li, Dacheng Li, Hao Zhang, Banghua Zhu, Michael Jordan, Joseph E Gonzalez, Ion Stoica.
EDUCATION
PhD, (2024) University of California Berkeley, Computer Science
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Recipient of the a16z Open Source AI Grant, 2023 Meta PhD Fellowship, 2022