I am a final-year PhD candidate advised by Prof. Xian-He Sun and a member of Gnosis Research Center at Illinois Institute of Technology. I also closely work with Dr. Rujia Wang (Microsoft), Prof. Jason Liu (FIU). I received my Master’s degree from New York University and my Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University.

Email: xlu40@hawk.iit.edu

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Research Interests

I conduct research in Computer Architecture and High-Performance Systems, focusing on:

• Memory performance modeling
• Cache/memory performance optimizations
• Data-centric design for computer architecture
• AI-assisted design for computer architecture (AI for Systems)
• Efficient algorithm-hardware co-design for AI (Syetems for AI)

Updates

• [Mar 2024] Xiaoyang won the Best Poster Award at the 2024 College of Computing Poster Session of Illinois Tech! Cheers!
• [Mar 2024] Xiaoyang was awarded with an ASPLOS Student Travel Grant. Cheers!
• [Feb 2024] Our paper ‘ACES: Accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication with Adaptive Execution Flow and Concurrency-Aware Cache Optimizations’ has been accepted by ASPLOS 2024! Congrats to all collaborators! [accept rate 11.5%].
• [Nov 2023] Our achievement for CARE Cache Management has been selected for inclusion in the Chip100 (2022-2023) annual ranking. Cheers!
• [Oct 2023] Our paper ‘CHROME: Concurrency-Aware Holistic Cache Management Framework with Online Reinforcement Learning’ has been accepted by HPCA 2024! Congrats to all collaborators! [accept rate 18.3%].
• [Nov 2022] Our paper ‘The Memory-Bounded Speedup Model and its Impacts in Computing’ has been accepted by Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Congrats!
• [Oct 2022] Our paper ‘CARE: A Concurrency-Aware Enhanced Lightweight Cache Management Framework’ has been accepted by HPCA 2023! Congrats to all collaborators! [accept rate 25.0%].

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