Biography
Kai is currently a first-year Computer Science PhD student
in EECS at University of California, Merced. Before coming
to UC Merced, he got his Masters degree in Computer
Science and Engineering from Michigan State University in
2016. His research broadly falls into general areas of
High Performance Computing (Large-Scale Parallel Systems).
Specifically, he focuses on the following areas: (i)
Parallel programming models and runtime; (ii) Performance
optimization and modeling; (iii) Resilience and
consistency; (iv) Non-volatile memory; (v) Fault tolerance
in extreme-scale parallel systems. He served as a student
volunteer in SC'16, Salt Lake City. He served as an
external reviewer for IPDPS’17, Cluster'17, NAS'17 and
HPCC'17. He did an internship at Los Alamos National
Laboratory in summer 2017.
Presentations
Paper
System Software
ACM Student Research Competition
Poster
Reception
