Cheng Li

Cheng Li is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, and Director of the Information Computing Platform at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center. His research focuses on parallel and distributed intelligent computing systems, with an emphasis on optimizing computational efficiency through data-centric approaches.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and Saarland University (2016)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Nankai University (2009)

Research interests include distributed systems, machine learning optimization, database systems, and high-performance computing. Notable contributions include innovations in distributed training of deep neural networks, geo-replicated databases, and efficient graph processing. His work has been published in top-tier conferences like NSDI, AAAI, VLDB, and SOSP.

Professional Activities: PC member at OSDI 2025, EuroSys 2024/2025, FAST 2024, and SOSP 2021. Teaching includes Systems Seminar and Compiler Principles at USTC since 2017.

Grants: Secured $500k/year funding from Chinese government agencies and collaborations with Huawei/Alibaba. Active in cloud-native systems and AI infrastructure research.