About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in ECE at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am advised by Prof. Jian Huang as a member of the Systems Platform Research Group. My research interest is AI infrastructure, with a focus on system and architectural techniques for low-cost AI.

Prior to my Ph.D. study, I obtained my Bachelor's degree from UIUC in 2021.

Download my CV here (Updated 02/21/2025).

Publication

  • ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units

    Yuqi Xue and Jian Huang
    58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'25)

  • Elk: Exploring the Efficiency of Inter-core Connected AI Chips with Deep Learning Compiler Techniques

    Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Noelle Crawford, Jilong Xue, and Jian Huang
    58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'25)

  • Managing Scalable Direct Storage Accesses for GPUs with GoFS

    Shaobo Li*, Yirui Eric Zhou*, Yuqi Xue, Yuan Xu, and Jian Huang
    ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'25)
    *Co-primary authors.

  • SkyByte: Architecting an Efficient Memory-Semantic CXL-based SSD with OS and Hardware Co-design

    Haoyang Zhang*, Yuqi Xue*, Yirui Eric Zhou, Shaobo Li, and Jian Huang
    2025 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'25)
    *Co-primary authors.

  • Scaling Deep Learning Computation over the Inter-Core Connected Intelligence Processor

    Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Yu Cheng, Lingxiao Ma, Ziming Miao, Jilong Xue, and Jian Huang
    The 30th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'24)

  • Hardware-Assisted Virtualization of Neural Processing Units for Cloud Platforms

    Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Lifeng Nai, and Jian Huang
    57th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'24)
    Received Best Paper Runner-up. Selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks.

  • G10: Enabling An Efficient Unified GPU Memory and Storage Architecture with Smart Tensor Migrations

    Haoyang Zhang*, Yirui Eric Zhou*, Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, and Jian Huang
    56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'23)
    *Co-primary authors.

  • RackBlox: A Software-Defined Rack-Scale Storage System with Network-Storage Co-Design

    Benjamin Reidys, Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Daixuan Li, Bharat Sukhwanim, Wen-mei Hwu, Deming Chen, Sameh Asaad, and Jian Huang
    29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23)

  • System Virtualization for Neural Processing Units

    Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, and Jian Huang
    19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'23)
    A short version is presented in HotInfra'23.

  • V10: Hardware-Assisted NPU Multi-Tenancy for Improved Resource Utilization and Fairness

    Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Lifeng Nai, and Jian Huang
    50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'23)
    A short version is presented in HotInfra'23.

  • IceClave: A Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing

    Luyi Kang*, Yuqi Xue*, Weiwei Jia*, Xiaohao Wang, Jongryool Kim, Changhwan Youn, Myeong Joon Kang, Hyung Jin Lim, Bruce Jacob, and Jian Huang
    54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'21)
    *Co-primary authors.
    A short version is presented in NVMW'22. An extended abstract is available on arXiv.

Experience

  • Education

    2021 - Now
    PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    2017 - 2021
    Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    2014 - 2017
    High School
    Shenzhen Middle School

  • Work Experience

    2021 - Now
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Systems Platform Research Group, UIUC
    June - Aug 2023
    Research Intern
    Google LLC, Sunnyvale, CA
    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024
    Research Intern
    Google LLC, Remote

  • Teaching

    ECE 522
    Emerging Memory and Storage Systems, Graduate TA, Spring 2023
    ECE 511
    Computer Architecture, Graduate TA, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
    ○ List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
    ECE 411
    Computer Organization and Design, Graduate TA, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
    ECE 310
    Digital Signal Processing, Undergraduate Grader, Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

  • Service

    Artifact Evaluation Committee

    ○ IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022
    ○ USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2022, 2023
    ○ USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2022, 2023
    ○ IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023

    Peer Review

    ○ IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2022, 2023, 2024
    ○ ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2024, 2025

    Organizing Committee

    ○ Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra), Web Chair, 2023, 2024

  • Award

    ○ IEEE Micro Top Picks from 2024 Computer Architecture Conferences
    ○ Best Paper Runner-Up, MICRO 2024
    ○ Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship, 2025
    ○ Qualcomm Graduate Award, Spring 2025
    ○ Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung Research Award, 2025
    ○ Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship, 2024
    ○ Student Travel Grants, ISCA 2023, MICRO 2024
    ○ Oral Presentation Award, CSL Student Conference, 2024

Misc

  • Cats

  • Genshin Impact