Tao Li Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida (Ph.D'04, University of Texas at Austin)   Office: 223 Harsen Hall Phone: (352) 392-9510 E-mail: taoli@ece.ufl.edu Office hours: Mon. and Wed. 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm (Spring 2010)

 

Dr. Tao Li is currently an assistant 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, energy-efficient and dependable microprocessor and memory systems, the impacts of emerging technologies and applications on hardware and operating/run-time systems, and evaluation of computer systems. Dr. Tao Li received 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.

Research Sponsors

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

Select Recent Publications

• 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.  
• 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

I am lucky to work with the following excellent students

 

Current

• Wangyuan Zhang (PhD. Student, 2009 UF Outstanding International Student)
• Clay Hughes (Ph.D. Student)
• Zhongqi Li (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow)
• Chao Li (Ph.D. Student, UF Alumni Fellow)
• Nilanjan Goswami (Ph.D. Student)
• Amer Qouneh (Ph.D. Student)
• Madhura Joshi (M.S. Student)
  
• Ramkumar Shankar (M.S. Student)

Graduated

• Dr. Chang Burm Cho (First Employment: Senior Design Engineer, Philips North America Corporation)
• Dr. Xin Fu (First Employment: 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Dr. James Poe (NSF Graduate Research Fellow, First Employment: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Miami Dade College)