I am a forth-year CS Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech. I am working with Ali R. Butt and Huaicheng Li. I received my B.E. in Software Engineering at Northeatern University (China) in 2020.

My research is to build high-performance and secure memory systems on CXL with the following topics:

• High-performance database indexing system for CXL (checkout our poster ART-CXL)
• Programming language runtime-integrated transparent memory tiering (checkout our preprint work)
• Using CXL to mitigate reused-based side-channel attacks for secure memory sharing

Virginia Tech | PhD in Computer Science | Aug 2021 - present

Northeastern University (CN) | BE in Software Engineering | Aug 2016 - Jun 2020

Boston University | Exchange Program in CS | Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

• (In submission, title hidden to avoid indexing from outside) [pdf]

  Yuze Li, Shunyu Yao, Jaiaid Mobin, Tianyu Zhan, M. Mustafa Rafique, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Kirshanthan Sundararajah, Ali R. Butt

• Understanding and Optimizing Serverless Workloads in CXL-Enabled Tiered Memory, 2023 [pdf]

  Yuze Li, Shunyu Yao

• Towards Cost-effective and Resource-aware Aggregation at Edge for Federated Learning, BigData '23 (AR: 17.49%) [pdf]

  Ahmad Khan, Yuze Li, Xinran Wang, Sabaat Haroon, Haider Ali, Yue Cheng, Ali Butt, and Ali Anwar

• Towards Persistent Memory based Stateful Serverless Computing for Big Data Applications, 2022 [pdf]

  Yuze Li, Kevin Assogba, Abhijit Tripathy, Moiz Arif, M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

• Maven Loss with AGW-Net for Biomedical Image Segmentation, ICCAI '20 [pdf]

  Yuze Li, Kaijun Wang, Hehui Gu

• Towards Efficient Python Interpreter for Tiered Memory Systems, FAST '24 WiP [pdf]

• Artifact Evaluation @ FAST '26, CGO '25, PPoPP '25

• External Review @ HPDC '24

• Research Intern @ OS Kernel Lab, Huawei, 06/2024-08/2024

• Student Travel Grant recipient in OSDI '25, FAST '22, '23, and '24

• University Pratt Fellowship | Jan 2023

Outside of academics, I enjoy running half marathon . I have completed several runs in Blacksburg and in D.C. I am also passionate in playing badminton , immersing myself playing against pro players.