
Ph.D. student
I am a Ph.D. student at William & Mary since Fall 2020, co-advised by Prof. Yifan Sun & Prof. Adwait Jog. Before that, I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University, China.
I'm interested in the area of GPU architecture and machine learning.
Get in Touch
Williamsburg, VA
yli81@wm.edu
Education
2020   ---   Now
College of William and Mary
Doctor of Philosophy
Computer Science
2014  ---  2018
Shandong University
Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publications
ISCA 2025 [PDF] [Github]
"TrioSim: A Lightweight Simulator for Large-Scale DNN Workloads on Multi-GPU Systems"
Ying Li, Yuhui Bao, Gongyu Wang, Xinxin Mei, Pranav Vaid, Anandaroop Ghosh, Adwait Jog, Darius Bunandar, Ajay Joshi, Yifan Sun
2025 ACM/IEEE 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (Acceptance Rate: 132/570 = 23.16%)
MICRO 2023 [PDF] [Artifact]
"Path Forward Beyond Simulators: Fast and Accurate GPU Execution Time Prediction for DNN Workloads"
Ying Li, Yifan Sun, Adwait Jog
2023 56th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Acceptance Rate: 101/424 = 23.82%)
Workshop or Poster Publications
CAMS 2023
Workshop: "TraceSim: A Lightweight Simulator for Large-Scale DNN Workloads on Multi-GPU Systems"
Ying Li, Yuhui Bao, Pranav Vaid, Gongyu Wang, Adwait Jog, Darius Bunandar, Ajay Joshi, Yifan Sun
The 1st Workshop on Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation
ISPASS 2023 [PDF]
Poster: "A Regression-based Model for End-to-End Latency Prediction for DNN Execution on GPUs"
Ying Li, Yifan Sun, Adwait Jog
2023 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Honors & Awards
2024 Honorable Mention for Research Shorts at CAPWIC 2024
2024 Scholarship attending CAPWIC 2024
2023 Best Poster for W&M Computer Science Symposium for Graduate Studies
2023 GSA Conference Funds from William & Mary
2023 Student Travel Grant for MICRO
2023 Student Travel Grant for ISPASS
2022 Student Travel Grant for ISCA
2015 The Second Campus Scholarship of Shandong University
2014 National Encouragement Scholarship
Service
Program Committee: CAMS 2024
External Conference Reviewer: CF ’23 (20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers), CF ’24
Artifact Evaluation Committee: PPoPP 2024
Web Chair: CAMS 2023 (The 1st Workshop on Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation)
Panelist: W&M Computer Science Symposium for Graduate Studies 2023