Kai Li Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor Department of Computer Science

Address

Department of Computer Science

Princeton University

35 Olden Street

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Phone: (609) 258-4637

Fax: (609) 258-1771

Email: LastName at cs dot Princeton dot edu

Administrative Assistant

Barbara Varga

Department of Computer Science

Princeton University

35 Olden Street

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Phone: (609) 258-4651

Fax: (609) 258-1771

Email: bjvarga at cs dot Princeton dot edu

Research interests

• Past research projects: CASS, ImageNet, PARSEC, MindEye
• Current interests: ML for systems, privacy preservation for ML, data auditing, and computational neuroscience.
• CV

Ph.D. Graduates

• Mark Greenstreet
      Thesis: STARI: A Technique for High-Bandwidth Communication, Januaray 1993.
• James Plank.
      Thesis: Efficient Checkpointing on MIMD Architectures, June 1993.
• Karin Petersen-Flynn
      Thesis: Operating Systems Support for Modern Memory Hierarchies, October 1993.
• Pei Cao.
      Thesis: Application-Controlled File Caching and Prefetching, January 1996.
• Matthias Blumrich.
      Thesis: Network Interface for Protected, User-Level Communication, June 1996.
• Stefanos N. Damianakis.
      Thesis: Efficient Connection-Oriented Communication on High-Performance Networks. June 1998.
• Liviu Iftode.
      Thesis: Home-Based Shared Virtual Memory, June 1998.
• Bin Wei.
      Thesis: A Multiple-Port Distributed Frame Buffer on Multicomputers, November 1998.
• Yuanyuan Zhou. 
      Thesis: Memory Management for Networked Servers, November 2000.
• Yuqun Chen. 
      Thesis: Building A Scalable High-Resolution Display Wall, January 2001.
• Sanjeev Kumar. 
      Thesis: ESP: A Language for Programmable Devices, June 2002.
• Han Chen,
      Thesis: Scalable and Ultra-High Resolution MPEG Video Delivery on Tiled Displays, September 2003.
• Qin (Christine) Lv,
      Thesis: Similarity Search for Large-Scale Image Datasets, November 2006.
• Zhiyan (Cathy) Liu. 
      Thesis: Scalable Isosurface Visualization, May 2008.
• Matthew Hibbs (co-advised with Prof. Olga Troyanskaya).
      Thesis: Analysis and Visualization of Large-Scale Gene Expression Microarray Compendia, May 2007.
• Junwen Lai (co-advised with Dr. Randy Wang).
      Thesis: Virtualizing Network File Systems, November 2008.
• Christian Bienia.
    Thesis: Benchmarking Modern Multiprocessors, 2010.
• William Josephson.
      Thesis: A Direct-Access File System for a New-Generation of Flash Memory, 2011.
• Wei Dong.
      Thesis: High-Dimensional Similarity Search for Large Datasets, 2011.
• Zhe Wang.
      Thesis: Similarity Search with Multimodal Data, 2011.
• Jia Deng (co-advised with Prof. Fei-Fei Li)
  Thesis: Large Scale Visual Recognition, 2012.
• Yida Wang.
      Thesis: Large-Scale Analysis of Functional Interactions in the Human Brain,  2016.
• Qian Zhu (co-advised with Prof. Olga Troyanskaya).
      Thesis: Detecting Gene Similarities using Large-Scale Content-Based Search Systems, 2016.
• Linpeng Tang.
      Thesis: Efficient Processing and Delivery of Multimedia Data. 2018.
• Lifang Cheng (co-advised with Prof. Barbara Engelhardt)
      Thesis: Large-Scale Multi-Output Gaussian Processes for Clinical Decision Support. 2019.
• Sachin Ravi (co-advised with Prof. Jonathan Cohen).
  Thesis: Meta Learning for Data and Processing Efficiency. 2019.
  

Current Ph.D. Advisees

• Daniel Suo
• Yushan Su
• Zhenyu Song (co-adivsed with Prof. Wyatt Lloyd)
• Dongsheng Yang (co-advised with Prof. Wyatt Lloyd)
• Yangsibo Huang (co-advised with Prof. Sanjeev Arora)
• Samyak Gupta (co-advised with Prof. Jonathan Cohen, PNI)
• Tianle Cai (co-advised with Prof. Jason Lee, ECE)

Recent Postdocs

• Zhen Jia
• Xiaoxiao Li