Yuke Li  

I'm a Ph.D candidate at PADSYS Lab in University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Xiaoyi Lu.

Before that, I received my M.S. degree in High Performance Computing with Data Science from EPCC, University of Edinburgh , and B.E. degree in Software Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) on 2020 and 2019, respectively.

(I deeply value my academic journey at EPCC. Professors like David, Mark, and many others consistently delivered top-notch lectures and meticulously crafted lab exercises. Their guidance was instrumental in my foray into the HPC field.)

I'm interested in HPC Communication (e.g., MPI, NCCL), RDMA, and DPU

Contact: yli304[at]ucmerced.edu

GitHub      Google scholar

Papers
[HPDC '25] DPU-KV: On the Benefits of DPU Offloading for In-Memory Key-Value Stores at the Edge
Arjun Kashyap , Yuke Li , Xiaoyi Lu
[To Appear]
[ICS '25] Understanding the Idiosyncrasies of Emerging BlueField DPUs
Arjun Kashyap, Yuke Li, Darren Ng, Xiaoyi Lu
[To Appear]
[SIDMOD '24] On the Feasibility and Benefits of Extensive Evaluation
(I contributed to the RDMA experiment)
Yujie Hui, Miao Yu, Hao Qi, Yifan Gan, Tianxi Li, Yuke Li, Xueyuan Ren, Sixiang Ma, Xiaoyi Lu, Yang Wang
[PAPER]
[IPDPS '24] Accelerating Lossy and Lossless Compression on Emerging BlueField DPU Architectures
(Best Paper Nominee)
Yuke Li, Arjun Kashyap, Weicong Chen, Yanfei Guo, Xiaoyi Lu
[PAPER]
[SHDA Workshop, SC '23] Pareto Optimization of CNN Models via Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Drainage Crossing Classification on Resource-Limited Devices
Yuke Li*, Jiwon Baik*(contributed equally), Md Marufi Rahman, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos, Ruopu Li, Tong Shu
[PAPER]
[Research Poster, SC '23] Characterizing One-/Two-sided Designs in OpenSHMEM Collectives
Yuke Li, Yanfei Guo, Xiaoyi Lu
[POSTER]
[IEEE Micro] Compression Analysis for BlueField-2/3 DPUs: Lossy and Lossless Perspectives
(an extended version of HOTI'23 paper)
Yuke Li, Arjun Kashyap, Yanfei Guo, Xiaoyi Lu
[PAPER]
[Hot Interconnects '23] Characterizing Lossy and Lossless Compression on Emerging BlueField DPU Architectures
Yuke Li, Arjun Kashyap, Yanfei Guo, Xiaoyi Lu
[PAPER]
[JCST '23] xCCL: A Survey of Industry-Led Collective Communication Libraries for Deep Learning
Adam Weingram, Yuke Li, Hao Qi, Darren Ng, Liuyao Dai, Xiaoyi Lu
[PAPER]
[BenchCouncil Transactions '22] Understanding Hot Interconnects with an Extensive Benchmark Survey
Yuke Li , Hao Qi, Gang Lu, Feng Jin, Yanfei Guo, Xiaoyi Lu
[PAPER]
Experience
Jan, 2023 - Dec, 2023 Visiting student, Argonne National Laboratory (Mentor: Yanfei Guo)
Summer, 2022 Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, MPICH project (Mentor: Yanfei Guo)
Service
HOTI '23 '24 Technical Program Committee
HOTI '25 Web Chair
Bench '22 Session Chair
SC '22 '23 '24 Student Volunteer
Awards
SIGHPC Conference Travel Grant SC '22
IEEE TCPP Student Travel Awards IPDPS '24
ISCA 2025 Student Travel Award ISCA '25

credit Yuan Feng, Kai Wu, Jon Barron & Limin Yang