About

I'm Yifan (亦凡) Yuan (袁), and I work at Meta's AI Systems Co-Design team on future compute/AI infra systems architecture. My research focuses on hardware-software co-design for modern cloud datacenter, ranging from accelerators to I/O, memory, networking, and distributed systems.

Before that, I spent two years at Intel Labs (Systems Architecture Lab) as a research scientist. Before that, I got PhD from ECE@UIUC (advised by Prof. Nam Sung Kim). I'm interested in computer architecture and system, especially building modern datacenter with emerging hardware and system software.

Before joining UIUC in 2017, I spent three years on my undergraduate study at Zhejiang University (ZJU), focusing on computer architecture and VLSI design.

I grew up in Tianjin, a city in China with spirit of humor and optimism. I enjoy badminton, hiking, and cooking.

Publications

Full List (including US patents)

• DCPerf: An Open-Source, Battle-Tested Performance Benchmark Suite for Datacenter Workloads
  ISCA 2025 (Industry Session)
  Cloud Computing Performance Modeling and Projection
• Dynamic Load Balancer in Intel Xeon Scalable Processor: Performance Analyses, Enhancements and Guidelines
  ISCA 2025
  Accelerator Cloud Computing In-network Computing
• A4: Microarchitecture-Aware LLC Management for Datacenter Servers with Emerging I/O Devices
  ISCA 2025
  Memory Technology Peripheral Device Performance Characterization
• M5: Mastering page migration and memory management for CXL-based tiered memory systems
  ASPLOS 2025 paper
  Memory Technology OS
• Demystifying a CXL Type-2 Device: A Heterogeneous Cooperative Computing Perspective
  MICRO 2024 paper
  Memory Technology OS Peripheral Device Accelerator Performance Characterization
• Nomad: Non-Exclusive Memory Tiering via Transactional Page Migration
  OSDI 2024 paper, slides, and video
  Memory Technology OS
• Intel Accelerator Ecosystem: An SoC-Oriented Perspective
  ISCA 2024 (Industry Session) paper slides
  On-chip Accelerator
• A Quantitative Analysis and Guidelines of Data Streaming Accelerator in Modern Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
  ASPLOS 2024 paper slides
  On-chip Accelerator
• BonsaiKV: Towards Fast, Scalable, and Persistent Key-Value Stores with Tiered, Heterogeneous Memory System
  VLDB 2024 paper
  Memory Technology
• Demystifying CXL Memory with True CXL-Ready Systems and CXL Memory Devices
  MICRO 2023 paper slides
  Memory Technology Peripheral Devices Performance Characterization
• STYX: Exploiting SmartNIC Capability to Reduce Datacenter Memory Tax
  ATC 2023 paper
  Accelerator Datacenter Tax
• RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive us-scale Datacenter Applications
  HPCA 2023 paper slides
  Accelerator Cloud Computing
• IDIO: Network-Driven, Inbound Network Data Orchestration on Server Processors
  MICRO 2022 paper slides
  I/O Subsystem Peripheral Devices
• Unlocking the Power of Inline Floating-Point Operations on Programmable Switches
  NSDI 2022 paper and video slides
  ML Training In-network Computing
• Don’t Forget the I/O When Allocating Your LLC
  ISCA 2021 paper slides
  I/O Subsystem Peripheral Devices
• QEI: Query Acceleration Can be Generic and Efficient in the Cloud
  HPCA 2021 paper slides
  On-chip Accelerator Cloud Computing
• Data Direct I/O Characterization for Future I/O System Exploration
  ISPASS 2020 paper slides video
  I/O Subsystem Peripheral Devices Performance Modeling and Projection
• HALO: Accelerating Flow Classification for Scalable Packet Processing in NFV
  ISCA 2019 paper slides
  On-chip Accelerator Cloud Computing
• Accelerating Distributed Reinforcement Learning with In-Switch Computing
  ISCA 2019 paper slides
  ML Training In-network Computing
• A Network-Centric Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design to Accelerate Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks
  MICRO 2018 paper slides

  ML Training In-network Computing