E
DUCATION

2009.08 - present

2009.08 - 2012.06

2008.08 - 2008.08

2007.09 - 2009.06

2005.09 - 2007.06

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Ph.D. Student in Computer Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Visiting Student, Summer Session C
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY

B.S. Electrical Engineering (with honors)
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (浙江大学)
Mixed Class, Chu Kochen Honors College
Gainesville, FL

Gainesville, FL

Los Angeles, CA

Hangzhou, China

Hangzhou, China


H
ONORS

2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2010
2010
2009-2013
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003


Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council
Alec Courtelis Award Nominee
, UF College of Engineering
Facebook Fellowship
, Facebook Inc.
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration Student Scholarship
, ACM SIGARCH
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, Yahoo! Inc.
Best Paper Award, IEEE HPCA Conference
Outstanding International Student, University of Florida
Attributes of a Gator Engineer Recognition Award for Creativity, UF College of Engineering
Graduate Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida
Outstanding Graduate Award with Chu Kochen Certificate of Honors, Zhejiang University
National Undergraduate Innovative Research Scholarship, 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 Competition, Chinese Mathematical Society



P
UBLICATIONS

    [1]

Chao Li, Yang Hu, Ruijin Zhou, Ming Liu, Longjun Liu, Jingling Yuan, and Tao Li
Enabling Datacenter Servers to Scale Out Economically and Sustainably
The 46th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
Davis, CA, December 2013


[PDF]
    [2]
Chao Li, Rui Wang, Nilanjan Goswami, Xian Li, Tao Li, and Depei Qian
Chameleon: Adapting Throughput Server to Time-Varying Green Power Budget Using Online Learning
The 2013 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
Beijing, China, September 2013

[PDF]
    [3]
Ruijin Zhou, Fang Liu, Chao Li, and Tao Li
Optimizing Virtual Machine Live Storage Migration in Heterogeneous Storage Environment
The 2013 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)
Houston, Texas, March 2013

[PDF]
    [4]
Chao Li, Ruijin Zhou and Tao Li
Enabling Distributed Generation Powered Sustainable High-Performance Data Center
The 19th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
Shenzhen, China, February 2013

[PDF]
    [5]
Chao Li, Amer Qouneh and Tao Li
iSwitch: Coordinating and Optimizing Renewable Energy Powered Server Clusters
The 39th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
Portland, Oregon, June 2012

[PDF]
    [6]

Amer Qouneh, Chao Li and Tao Li
A Quantitative Analysis of Cooling Power in Container-based Data Centers
The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)
Austin, Texas, November 2011


[PDF]
    [7]
Chao Li, Amer Qouneh and Tao Li
Characterizing and Analyzing Renewable Energy Driven Data Centers (Short Paper)
The 2011 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
(SIGMETRICS)
San Jose, California, June 2011

[PDF]
    [8]
Chao Li, Wangyuan Zhang, Chang-Burm Cho and Tao Li
SolarCore: Solar Energy Driven Multi-core Architecture Power Management (Best Paper Award)
The 17th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
San Antonio, Texas, February 2011

[PDF]

PATENTS





A Controller for Optimizing Performance-Per-Watt in Renewable Energy-Driven Computers
Chinese Patent, No. 201210019554, 2012-08-01

Solar Energy Driven Computer Power Management Systems and Methods
Chinese Patent, No. 201210019241, 2012-07-25

Renewable Energy Control Systems and Methods
U.S. Utility Patent Pending

Method and Apparatus for Data Center Power Management using On-site Distributed Generation
U.S. Utility Patent Pending

GRANTS





Graduate Student Council Travel Grant, University of Florida, 2013
Research Grant for Facebook Graduate Fellows, Facebook Inc, 2013
NSF Travel Grant for the 19th Int'l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2013
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Research Seed Funding, Yahoo! Inc, 2012
NSF Travel Grant for the 39th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2012
NSF Travel Grant for the 38th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2011
NSF Travel Grant for the 17th Int'l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2011
National College Student Innovative Research Grant, Ministry of Education of China, 2008

S
ERVICES

  Conference Organizer

- Web co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'14), 2014
- Publicity co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS'13), 2013

  External Reviewer

- IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
- Design Automation Conference (DAC: 2012)

  Other Review Activities
  - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
- IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
- Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems - Elsevier
- IEEE Int'l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA: 2012)
- IEEE Int'l Symp. on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS: 2010, 2011, 2013)
- IEEE Int'l Symp. on Workload Characterization (IISWC: 2010)
- International Green Computing Conference (IGCC: 2012)

COURSES






2012 Spring
- EEL6892 Cyber-Physical Systems

2011 Spring
- EEL6892 Virtual Computer

2010 Fall
- EEL6935 Autonomic Computing
- EEL6935 Cloud Computing and Storage

2010 Spring
- EEL6763 Parallel Computer Architecture
- EEL6935 Billion Transistor Computer Architecture

2009 Fall
- EEE5322 VLSI Circuits & Technology
- EEL5764 Computer Architecture


S
KILLS
 

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
- Simics, M-Sim
Hardware Design:
- Cadence Virtuoso, OrCAD/PSpice, Modelsim, NI Multisim, Xilinx ISE
System Design and Implementation:
- Experiences in assembling, deploying, and troubleshooting server hardware
- Experiences in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting networked systems


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
           

Pushing the limit...