Yang Li
5260 Centre Avenue, Apt. 702
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 512-730-9276
E-mail: jerryyangli@gmail.com
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
09/2013 - Present
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Advisor: Onur Mutlu
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Research Area: computer system and architecture, especially on memory system and
data center power management
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Overall GPA: 3.84
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Relevant Courses:
Computer Architecture
Parallel Computer Architecture
Machine Learning
Database Applications
The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Overall GPA: 3.85
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Relevant Courses:
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
VLSI I
Data Converters
System-on-a-Chip Design
Optimization Issues In VLSI CAD
08/2011 - 05/2013
Convex Optimization Theory
Digital Signal Processing
VLSI Testing
Mixed-Signal System Design
Nanometer Scale IC Design
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
08/2007 - 07/2011
B.E. in Automation
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Overall GPA: 88/100; Major GPA: 90/100
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Thesis: A Novel Passive Macro-modeling Method for Millimeter-wave Integrated
Circuits (Best Undergraduate Thesis Award)
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Relevant Courses:
Automatic Control Theory (1) (2)
Process Control
Operation Research
Discrete Mathematics
Probability and Statistics
Applied Stochastic Process
Computer Networks
Fundamental Pattern Recognition
Research Experience
Research Assistant/Intern, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research
06/2014 - Present
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Worked on power management of fuel cell powered data center. Proposed design
guidelines for battery provisioning and workload power modulation. [HPCA’16]
Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
09/2013 - Present
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Proposed a heterogeneous memory management approach that can improve the
performance of heterogeneous memory systems consisting of different types of
DRAM, or DRAM and non-volatile memory. [SAFARI Technical Report’15]
Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin
09/2011 - 06/2013
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Applied complex analysis method in elasticity to full-chip TSV-induced stress
modeling, and proposed an approach that can significantly improve the accuracy of
state-of-art method with negligible additional overhead in run time. [DAC’13]
Research Assistant, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
04/2010 - 06/2011
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Applied domain transform approach to computational passive macro-modeling and
proposed an efficient and mathematically complete algorithm. [DAC’11],
[TVLSI’15]
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Conducted research on the acceleration of transient noise analysis for the simulation
of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) by using the techniques of parallel computing.
[DAC’13]
Publications
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[HPCA’16]. Y. Li, D. Wang, S. Ghose, J. Liu, S. Govindan, S. James, E. Peterson, J.
Siegler, R. Ausavarungnirun, and O. Mutlu. SizeCap: Efficiently Handling Power
Surges for Fuel Cell Powered Data Centers. IEEE Symposium on High Performance
Computer Architecture, Mar. 2016.
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[TVLSI’15]. Z. Ye, T. Wang, and Y. Li. Domain-Alternated Optimization for
Passive Macromodeling. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration
Systems, Oct. 2015.
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[SAFARI Technical Report’15]. Y. Li, J. Choi, J. Sun, S. Ghose, H. Wang, J. Meza,
J. Ren, and O. Mutlu. Managing Hybrid Main Memories with a Page-Utility Driven
Performance Model. SAFARI Technical Report No. 2015-010, Jul. 2015.
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[DAC’13]. Y. Li, and D. Z. Pan. An Accurate Semi-Analytical Framework for
Full-Chip TSV-induced Stress modeling. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference,
Jun. 2013.
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[DAC’13]. Z. Ye, B. Wu, S. Han, and Y. Li. Time-Domain Segmentation based
Massively Parallel Simulation for ADCs. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference,
Jun. 2013.
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[DAC’11]. Z. Ye, Y. Li, M. Gao, and Z. Yu. A Novel Framework for Passive
Macromodeling. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Jun. 2011.
Papers Under Submission
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[ISCA’16]. Y. Li, S. Ghose, J. Choi, J. Sun, H. Wang, J. Ren, and O. Mutlu. A New
Mechanism for High Performance Page Placement in Heterogeneous Main Memories.
Submitted to IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture, Jul. 2016.
Technical Skills
Operation System: Windows, UNIX
Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Python, SQL, SystemC, Verilog
Applications: LaTeX, MATLAB, COMSOL, Cadence, Catapult, Design Compiler,
PrimeTime, Encounter
Honors and Awards
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Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean’s Tuition Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon
University, Sept. 2013.
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TI Outstanding Student Designer Award, Texas Instrument, May 2013.
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Microelectronics and Computer Development Fellowship, The University of Texas
at Austin, Aug. 2011.
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Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, Jul. 2011.
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Academic Merit Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Dec. 2009.
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First Prize of National Physics Contest for University Students, Beijing Institute of
Physics, Dec. 2008.
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Bronze Medal of Chinese Physics Olympiad, Chinese Physical Society, Nov. 2006.