System Trust
Dr. Ling Liu
Professor; Director, Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab
School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ling Liu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), researching performance, availability, security, privacy, and trust in large-scale big-data systems and analytics.
Scalable Distributed Policy Enforcement
Elastic Orchestration of Multi-Tenant Agent Runtimes
Detecting Safety Drift in Long-Running Agent Fleets
the partnership
the research
Three potential directions, one thesis at a time.
The collaboration is structured as co-supervised PhD research — Algedonic providing the systems and roadmap context, Dr. Miller’s group providing the formal rigor and publication path.
DIRECTION 01
Provenance Semirings for Agent Intent
Giving UIR’s tool-call witness principle a real mathematical backbone, extending provenance semiring theory from queries to agent action traces.
DIRECTION 02
Intent Exchange as Data Exchange
Treating the translation of intent across MCP, A2A, and ACP as a schema mapping problem, with the correctness guarantees data exchange theory demands.
DIRECTION 03
Capability Discovery over Tool Lakes
Adapting data lake discovery so agents can find the right tool for a given intent — out of thousands — at scale.