Shuo Liu (刘硕)

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University (SDU), Class of 2022. I am a member of the Blockchain and Distributed Security Lab, where I am privileged to be advised by Prof. Minghui Xu and Prof. Xiuzhen Cheng.

Qingdao, China 202220766 [AT] mail.sdu.edu.cn BDS-SDU

Research Interests

Distributed Systems: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) Consensus.
Wireless Networking: Secure Coordination of Unmanned Swarms & Satellite Networks.
Robotics Systems: Reliable, secure, and hardware-aware runtime support for ROS 2, physical AI, and networked robot swarms.

Current Direction

I am currently exploring the systems layer of robot middleware for embodied AI: how learned robot policies can be executed reliably across real robots and networked robot teams. I am particularly interested in the performance, reliability, and security challenges of deploying embodied-AI systems in real-world environments.

My long-term goal is to build dependable and scalable systems infrastructure for embodied AI, enabling robots to operate safely and efficiently in real-world environments, both individually and as part of multi-robot systems. Toward this goal, I am interested in several directions: robust coordination and collective decision-making for multi-robot systems using wireless BFT consensus; system-level support for embodied AI, such as ROS 2 and Dora, with a focus on improving the reliability, efficiency, and security of robot learning workloads in real-world environments.

Interactive Artifact

Robot Middleware Issue Relation Explorer

Explore ROS 2 and Dora issue relations across issues, PRs, commits, affected modules, and evidence links.

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News

2026.04

🎉 Paper "OrbitBFT: Enabling Scalable and Robust BFT Consensus in LEO Constellations" accepted by ICDCS 2026.

2025.11

🏆 Honored to receive the President Scholarship of Shandong University (The highest honor for SDU students)!

2025.06

🏛️ Selected as a Shadow PC Member for EuroSys 2026.

2025.05

🚀 Our Satellite Consensus system was successfully launched into space aboard the Tiansuan Constellation (BUPT-2/3).

2025.03

🎉 Paper "Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Wireless" accepted by ICDCS 2025.

2024.12

🎉 Paper "Partially Synchronous BFT Consensus Made Practical in Wireless Networks" accepted by INFOCOM 2025.

2024.10

📘 The book "Wireless Consensus: Theory and Applications" (contributed as a core member) is now available on Springer

2024.12

🎉 Paper "CloudChain: A Cloud Blockchain Using Shared Memory Consensus and RDMA" accepted by IEEE TC 2025.

Selected Publications

Conference Papers

OrbitBFT: Enabling Scalable and Robust BFT Consensus in LEO Constellations

Tianyi Sun*, Shuo Liu*, Minghui Xu, Xiuzhen Cheng

IEEE ICDCS 2026

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Asynchronous BFT Consensus Made Wireless

Shuo Liu, Minghui Xu, Tianyi Sun, Xiuzhen Cheng

IEEE ICDCS 2025

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Partially Synchronous BFT Consensus Made Practical in Wireless Networks

Shuo Liu, Minghui Xu, Yifei Zou, Xiuzhen Cheng, Wangjie Qiu, Gang Qu

IEEE INFOCOM 2025

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Journal Articles

CloudChain: A Cloud Blockchain Using Shared Memory Consensus and RDMA

Minghui Xu, Shuo Liu, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, et al.

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022

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Academic Services

Program Committee

EuroSys ‘26 (Shadow PC)

Journal Reviewer

IEEE TIFS, TMC, TC, TWC

Teaching at SDU

Course	Role	Period
Introduction to Cryptography	Teaching Assistant	Fall 2021–2026
Introduction to Blockchain	Teaching Assistant	Fall 2023–2025