Tao Li (Ph.D. 2004)

University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida
223 Larsen Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-6200

Office Hours:	Tue. and Fri. 3:00pm-4:00pm
Phone:	(352) 392-9510
E-mail:	taoli@ece.ufl.edu
Homepage:	http://www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu
Group	IDEAL
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Brief Biography

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, low-power, secure and dependable microprocessor, memory and I/O systems, application-specific computing systems, the impacts of emerging technologies and applications on hardware, operating/run-time systems and compilers. Dr. Tao Li received 2006-2008 IBM Faculty Awards and 2009 NSF CAREER award.

Research Interests and Projects

• Computer Architecture Design for Emerging Technologies and Applications
• Performance, Power, Reliability and Security Issues in Computing
• Interactions between Computer Architecture, System Software (OS, Virtual Machine) and Compiler

Research Affiliation: Advanced Computing and Information Systems

Research Group: IDEAL (Intelligent Design of Efficient Architecture Lab), click here to lab’s website.

Current Research Projects:

• Intelligent resource management for multi-/many- core systems
• Reliability optimization for nano-scale architecture design
• Highly efficient architecture design space exploration
• Multi-core benchmarking using transactional memory workloads
• Emerging technology-driven architecture design

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Research Sponsors

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

Select Recent Publications

• 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

• James Michael Poe II (PhD. Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient) [Homepage]
• Chang Burm Cho (PhD. Student) [Homepage]
• Wangyuan(Wayne) Zhang (PhD. Student) [Homepage]
• Clay Hughes (Ph.D. Student) [Homepage]
• Xin Fu (Ph.D. Student, Co-advised with Prof. Jose Fortes) [Homepage]

Teaching

• EEL 6935: Billion Transistor Computer Architecture (Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007)
• EEL 5764: Computer Architecture (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
• EEL 4744C - Microprocessor Applications (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009)

Organized Workshops

• Workshop on Interaction between Operating System and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009