TAO LI
Assistant Professor

 

Education:

PhD, ECE, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
ME, CprE, Beijing Institute of Data Processing Technology, 1996
BSCEN, Northwestern Polytechnic University, 1993

Contact Information:

Email: taoli@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-9510
Office: 223 Larsen
Homepage: www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Computer Engineering
Lab:   Advanced Computing and Information Systems, Intelligent Design of Efficient Architectures Lab

Fields of Interest:

• Computer and digital system architecture
• High-performance, low-power dependable and secure computing
• Architectural supports for emerging workloads and computing technologies
• Application specific computing systems
• Interactions of computer architecture
• Compilers and operating system
• Modeling, simulation and evaluation of computer systems

Employment:

2004 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2007
Tao Li, Microarchitecture Characteristics and Implications of Alignment of Multiple Bioinformatics Sequences, Unique Chips and Systems, CRC Press, 2007

Tao Li, Lizy Kurian John, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan and Juan Rubio, OS-aware Branch Prediction: Improving Microprocessor Control Flow Prediction for Operating Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 56, No. 1, Jan. 2007

2006
James Poe and Tao Li, BASS: A Benchmark suite for evaluating Architectural Security Systems, Computer Architecture News, Nov. 34, No. 4, Sept. 2006.

Tao Li and Lizy Kurian John, Operating System Power Minimization through Run-time Processor Resource Adaptation, Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, Volume 30, Issue 4, page 173-224, June 2006

Contracts and Grants:

• Microsoft, "Integrating Operating System Reliability and Security Teaching Modules"
• IBM, Multithreaded Workload Synthesis for Multi-core Processor Design

Honors and Awards:

2007 - IBM Faculty Award
2006 - IBM Faculty Award
2006 - Microsoft Research Trustworthy Computing Curriculum Award
1997 - Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Patents

US Patent 7,370,183, "Method and Apparatus for Reducing Branch Misprediction due to User and Operating System
Interference by Providing Separated Branch Prediction Hardware," issued May 2008