Tao Li

Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Florida

(Ph.D'04, University of Texas at Austin)

Office: 339D Larsen Hall

Phone: (352) 392-9510

E-mail: taoli@ece.ufl.edu

Office hours: By appointment (Spring and Summer 2012)

Dr. Tao Li is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include computer architecture, virtualization, energy-efficient and dependable data center, cloud computing platforms, the impacts of emerging technologies and applications on computing, and evaluation of computer systems. Dr. Tao Li received 2012 NSFC Dragon Star Lecture Professorship, 2011 NSFC Oversea Scholar Collaboration Award, 2009 National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award, 2008, 2007, 2006 IBM Faculty Awards, 2008 Microsoft Research Safe and Scalable Multi-core Computing Award and 2006 Microsoft Research Trustworthy Computing Curriculum Award. Dr. Tao Li co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award in HPCA 2011 and three papers that were nominated for the Best Paper Awards in DSN 2011, MICRO 2008 and MASCOTS 2006.

Research Sponsors

IBM
Microsoft Research
NASA/Florida Space Grant Consortium
National Science Foundation
Semiconductor Research Corporation

Recent Highlight

A Quantitative Analysis of Cooling Power in Container-Based Data Centers, IISWC 2011.
Characterizing and Analyzing Renewable Energy Driven Data Center, SIGMETRICS 2011 (Short Paper).

Select Publications

iSwitch: Coordinating and Optimizing Renewable Energy Powered Server Clusters, ISCA 2012.
Helmet: A Resistance Drift Resilient Architecture for Multi-level Cell Phase Change Memory System, DSN 2011(Best Paper Candidate).
SolarCore: Solar Energy Driven Multi-core Architecture Power Management, HPCA 2011 (Best Paper Award).
Mercury: A Fast and Energy-Efficient Multi-level Cell based Phase Change Memory System, HPCA 2011.
Architecting Reliable Multi-core Network-on-Chip for Small Scale Processing Technology, DSN 2010.
Characterizing and Mitigating the Impact of Process Variations on Phase Change based Memory Systems, MICRO 2009.
Exploring Phase Change Memory and 3D Die-Stacking for Power/Thermal Friendly, Fast and Durable Memory Architectures, PACT 2009.
Soft Error Vulnerability Aware Process Variation Mitigation, HPCA 2009.
Microarchitecture Soft Error Vulnerability Characterization and Mitigation under 3D Integration Technology, MICRO 2008 (Best Paper Candidate).
NBTI Tolerant Microarchitecture Design in the Presence of Process Variation, MICRO 2008.
Combined Circuit and Microarchitecture Techniques for Effective Soft Error Robustness in SMT Processors, DSN 2008.
Informed Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration using Workload Dynamics, MICRO 2007.
Complexity-based Program Phase Analysis and Classification, PACT 2006.
Run-time Modeling and Estimation of Operating System Power Consumption, SIGMETRICS 2003.
Understanding and Improving Operating System Effects in Control Flow Prediction, ASPLOS 2002.

Students

Current

I am lucky to work with the following excellent students

Zhongqi Li (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow)
Chao Li (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow, Attributes of a Gator Engineer Recognition Award for Creativity'10, UF Outstanding International Student'10, Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Award'12, ACM SIGARCH Student Scholarship for Turing Centenary Celebration'12)
Nilanjan Goswami (Ph.D. Student)
Amer Qouneh (Ph.D. Student)
Ruijin Zhou (Ph.D. Student)
Bingyi Cao (Ph.D. Student)
Ajit Verma (Ph.D. Student)
Ming Liu (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow)
Yang Hu (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow)

Graduated

Wish them all the best for their future endeavors

Doctor

Dr. Chang Burm Cho (Ph.D. Dec.'08, First Employment: Senior Design Engineer, Philips North America Corporation)
Dr. Xin Fu (Ph.D. Dec.'09, Computing Innovation Fellow'09, First Employment: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, University of Kansas)
Dr. James Poe (Ph.D. Dec.'09, NSF Graduate Research Fellow'06-'09, First Employment: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Miami Dade College)
Dr. Wangyuan Zhang (Ph.D. Aug.'10, UF Outstanding International Student'09, Computing Innovation Fellow'10 (declined by Wangyuan Zhang due to other job offers), First Employment: Technical Staff, NetApp)
Dr. Clay Hughes (Ph.D. Dec.'10, First Employment: Assistant Professor, Florida State University at Panama City)

Master (Thesis only)

Madhura Joshi (MS. Dec'10, Infinera)
Ramkumar Shankar (MS. Dec'10, AMD)

Visiting Scholars

Prof. Jingling Yuan (Wuhan University of Technology, 06/08-06/09)
Yiou Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 08/10-08/11)
Prof. Fang Liu (NUDT, 03/12-09/12)
Rui Wang (Beihang University, 10/12-01/13)

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