I am a second year Ph.D. Candidate in CSE at the University of Michigan working with Prof. Ang Chen. I study agentic systems that reason, act, and adapt in real-world cloud infrastructure environments, with the goal of making large-scale computing systems safer, more autonomous, reliable, and resilient. Particularly, I am working on:
- Vera: Neurosymbolic synthesis of cloud-API emulators for local DevOps testing.
- Ambig-IaC: Interactive configuration synthesis that resolves ambiguous user intent.
- Nsync: Automated Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Reconciliation with AI Agents.
- Cloud Agent: Study how AI agents can be used for cloud management via different modalities.
- TerraFault: Automated bug discovery in Cloud management tools with LLM agents.
Open to research discussions and collaborations. Feel free to reach out via email — see my CV.
SQUiD: Synthesizing Relational Databases from Unstructured Text
Mushtari Sadia,
Zhenning Yang, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
EMNLP 2025 /
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Cloud Infrastructure Management in the Age of AI Agents
Zhenning Yang, Archit Bhatnagar, Yiming Qiu, Tongyuan Miao, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yunming Xiao, Yibo Huang, Martin Casado, Ang Chen
SIGOPS 2025 /
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Disaggregating Embedding Recommendation Systems with FlexEMR
Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu,
Zhenning Yang, Jiarong Xing, Yi Dai, Dingming Wu, Fan Lai, Ang Chen
APSys 2025 /
Paper
Automated Bug Discovery in Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Updates with LLM Agents
Yiming Xiang*,
Zhenning Yang*, Jingjia Peng, Hermann Bauer, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yiming Qiu, Ang Chen
AIOps 2025 /
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Oobleck: Resilient Distributed Training of Large Models Using Pipeline Templates
Insu Jang,
Zhenning Yang, Zhen Zhang, Xin Jin, Mosharaf Chowdhury
SOSP 2023 /
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Code
SmarCyPad: A Smart Seat Pad for Cycling Fitness Tracking Leveraging Low-cost Conductive Fabric Sensors
Yi Wu, Luis González Villalobos,
Zhenning Yang, Gregory Thomas Croisdale, Çağdaş Karataş, Jian Liu
IMWUT 2023 /
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Video
A Fast Neural Network-Based Approach for Joint Mid-IR and Far-IR Surface Spectral Emissivity Retrieval
Zhenning Yang, Xiuhong Chen, Xianglei Huang, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Brian Drouin
IGARSS 2023 /
Paper /
Poster
Chasing Low-carbon Electricity for Practical and Sustainable DNN Training
Zhenning Yang, Luoxi Meng, Jae-Won Chung, Mosharaf Chowdhury
ICLR Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2023
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Code /
Poster /
Video
Ambig-IaC: Multi-level Disambiguation for Interactive Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Synthesis
Zhenning Yang, Kaden Gruizenga, Tongyuan Miao, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Hui Guan, Ang Chen
arXiv 2026 /
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Project Page
Automated Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Reconciliation with AI Agents
Zhenning Yang, Hui Guan, Victor Nicolet, Brandon Paulsen, Joey Dodds, Daniel Kroening, Ang Chen
arXiv 2025 /
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Curie: Toward Rigorous and Automated Scientific Experimentation with AI Agents
Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Jiachen Liu, Qiuyi Ding, Yiming Qiu,
Zhenning Yang, Yibo Huang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Myungjin Lee, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Ang Chen
arXiv 2025 /
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I have been very fortunate to mentor and collaborate with many talented students.
