EDUCATION

 2009.8 - present
 
 2008.8 - 2008.8
 
 2007.9 - 2009.6
 
 2005.9 - 2007.6


  UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Ph.D. Student in Computer Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Visiting Student
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
B.S. Electrical Engineering (with honors)
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
Mixed Honors Class, Chu Kochen Honors College
Gainesville, FL

Los Angeles, CA

Hangzhou, China

Hangzhou, China


PUBLICATIONS



   

[1] Chao Li, Amer Qouneh and Tao Li
iSwitch: Coordinating and Optimizing Renewable Energy Powered Server Clusters, in Proceedings of the 39th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Portland, OR, USA, June 2012.

[2] Amer Qouneh, Chao Li and Tao Li
A Quantitative Analysis of Cooling Power in Container-based Data Centers, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Austin, TX, USA, November 2011.

[3] Chao Li, Amer Qouneh and Tao Li
Characterizing and Analyzing Renewable Energy Driven Data Centers, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS) (extended abstract), San Jose, CA, USA, June 2011.

[4] Chao Li, Wangyuan Zhang, Chang-Burm Cho and Tao Li
SolarCore: Solar Energy Driven Multi-core Architecture Power Management, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), San Antonio, TX, USA, February 2011. (Best Paper Award)


HONORS AND AWARDS

 2012
 2012

 
2011
 2010
 2010
 2009
 2009
 2008
 2007
 2006
 2005
 2004
 2003


 

ACM Turing Centenary Celebration Student Scholarship, ACM SIGARCH
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award
,
Yahoo! Inc.
Best Paper Award
, IEEE HPCA Conference
Outstanding International Student Award, UF International Center
Gator Engineer Recognition Award for Creativity, UF College of Engineering
Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida
Outstanding Graduate Award with Certificate of Honors, Zhejiang University
Study Abroad Scholarship (short-term), Zhejiang University
National Encouragement Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China
The First Prize, National High School Physics Olympiad, Chinese Physical Society
The First Prize, National High School Math League, Chinese Mathematical Society


EXPERIENCE
2009.8 - present



  • Graduate Research Assistant
    Intelligent Design of Efficient Architectures Laboratory, University of Florida
    • Working on power efficient computer architecture design
2008.3 - 2009.5



  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Institute of VLSI Design, Zhejiang University
    • Student Research Training Program (SRTP)

2006.11 - 2008.3



  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University
    • National College Student Innovative Research Program of China

GRANTS




Travel Grant for 39th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2011
Travel Grant for 38th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2011
Travel Grant for 17th Int'l Symp. on High-Performacne Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2011
National College Student Innovative Research Grant, Ministry of Education of China, 2008

COURSES





  • 2012 Spring
    EEL-6892 Cyber-Physical Systems
  • 2011 Spring
    EEL-6892 Virtual Computer
  • 2010 Fall
    EEL-6935 Autonomic Computing
    EEL-6935 Cloud Computing and Storage
  • 2010 Spring
    EEL-6763 Parallel Computer Architecture
    EEL-6935 Billion Transistor Computer Architecture
  • 2009 Fall
    EEE-5322 VLSI Circuits & Technology
    EEL-5764 Computer Architecture

MEMBERSHIP




  • Student member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
  • Student member of ACM SIGARCH, SIGMICRO

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
  Reviewer
  IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
  External Reviewer
  Design Automation Conference (DAC: 2012)
IEEE Int'l Symp. on High-Performacne Computer Architecture (HPCA: 2012)
IEEE Int'l Symp. on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS: 2010, 2011)
IEEE Int'l Symp. on Workload Characterization (IISWC: 2010)
International Green Computing Conference (IGCC: 2012)

DISSERTATION
  Chao Li, Single-cycle High-level Simulation for MIPS Instruction System, Bachelor's Thesis, Zhejiang University, May 2009, (Outstanding Thesis Award), Advisor: Prof. Weiwei Wang

TECHNICAL SKILLS
 

Operating Systems :
Windows/UNIX/Linux
Programming Language:
C/C++, UPC, MPI, Python, Perl, Bash, MATLAB, HTML, Verilog HDL
Simulation and Modeling:
MATLAB/SIMULINK, MAPLE
Architectural Simulator and Tools
M-Sim, Simics
Hardware Design:
Cadence Virtuoso, OrCAD/PSpice, Modelsim, NI Multisim, Xilinx ISE

           

Pushing the limit ...