Kai Li Charles Fitzmorris Professor Department of Computer Science Ph.D. Yale, 1986.

Research

• Research projects
• Recent papers
• CV

Courses

• COS 598A spring 2007: parallel architecture and programming (co-teaching with JP Singh)
• COS 318 fall 2007: Operating Systems

Affiliated Upcoming Conferences

• SIGMETRICS'07: June 12-16, 2007, San Diego.
• MIR'07: September 28-29, 2007, University of Augsburg, Germany
• HPCA08: February 16-20, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT
• ISCA'08: Beijing, June 18-21, 2008.

Ph.D. Graduates

• Mark Greenstreet. University of British Columbia. 
      Thesis: STARI: A Technique for High-Bandwidth Communication, Januaray 1993.
• James Plank. University of Tennessee. 
      Thesis: Efficient Checkpointing on MIMD Architectures, June 1993.
• Karin Petersen-Flynn
      Thesis: Operating Systems Support for Modern Memory Hierarchies, October 1993.
• Pei Cao. Stanford University and Google.
      Thesis: Application-Controlled File Caching and Prefetching, January 1996.
• Matthias Blumrich. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
      Thesis: Network Interface for Protected, User-Level Communication, June 1996.
• Stefanos N. Damianakis. Netrics. 
      Thesis: Efficient Connection-Oriented Communication on High-Performance Networks. June 1998.
• Liviu Iftode. University of Maryland at College Park.
      Thesis: Home-Based Shared Virtual Memory, June 1998.
• Bin Wei. AT\&T Shannon Research Lab.
      Thesis: A Multiple-Port Distributed Frame Buffer on Multicomputers, November 1998.
• Yuanyuan Zhou.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
      Thesis: Memory Management for Networked Servers, November 2000.
• Yuqun Chen.  Microsoft Research.
      Thesis: Building A Scalable High-Resolution Display Wall, January 2001.
• Sanjeev Kumar.  Intel Microcomputer Technology Labs.
      Thesis: ESP: A Language for Programmable Devices, June 2002.
• Han Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
      Thesis: Scalable and Ultra-High Resolution MPEG Video Delivery on Tiled Displays, September 2003.
• Qin (Christine) Lv, Stony Brook University.
      Thesis: Similarity Search for Large-Scale Image Datasets, November 2006.
• Zhiyan (Cathy) Liu.  Google, Inc.
      Thesis: Scalable Isosurface Visualization, May 2008.

Current Ph.D. Advisees

• Christian Bienia
• Jia Deng
• Wei Dong
• Matthew Hibbs (co-advising with Olga Troyanskaya)
• William Josephson
• Wen Xu (co-advising with Jennifer Rexford, currently at Google)
• Zhe Wang