Yang Li

Yang Li is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, specializing in computer architecture, machine learning, and their intersection. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University (2020), an M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin (2013), and a B.E. from Tsinghua University (2011). Prior to academia, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Meta, a Research Scientist at Meta, and a Researcher at Microsoft. His research focuses on large language models (LLM) acceleration, on-device AI, cloud infrastructure optimization, and spatiotemporal forecasting. He has contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed publications at top venues like ASPLOS, EMNLP, and ICASSP.

Research Interests:

• Algorithmic and systems-level acceleration of LLMs
• On-device AI co-design and privacy
• Cloud memory/power management
• Graph-based spatiotemporal forecasting

Teaching: Taught COMS 6730 (Advanced Topics in ML), COM S 321 (Computer Architecture), and guest-lectured on graph signal processing. Recent teaching scores include 4.75/5.0 (Fall 2024) and 4.67/5.0 (Spring 2025).

Awards: IBM Patent Application Award (2021) and multiple patents on power management systems for data centers.

Service: Program committee member for DAC 2024, NeurIPS 2024, and ICLR 2025. Reviewer for ACM TACO, IEEE TPAMI, TPDS, and others.