About Me

My name is Zihao Yu. I am currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Professor Yuanchao Xu. My research interests lie in computer architecture and AI hardware acceleration. I am particularly interested in combining algorithms and hardware to enable innovative applications.

Education

• Ph.D. student in Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz, 2026 - present
• Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering, Indiana University, 2024 - 2026 (transferred)
• M.S. in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020 - 2023
• B.S. in Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, 2016 - 2020

News

• [Mar 2026] One paper is accepted by ISCA 2026! Thanks to all collaborators!
• [Sep 2024] Received the Luddy Doctoral Summer Fellowship from Indiana University.
• [May 2023] Received Graduate Scholarships from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• [May 2021] Received the Merit Student Award from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• [May 2020] Received the Outstanding Graduation Design award from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Recent publications

• [ISCA 2026] (best paper) Patterns behind Chaos: Forecasting Data Movement for Efficient Large-Scale MoE LLM Inference
  Zhongkai Yu, Yue Guan, Zihao Yu, Chenyang Zhou, Zhengding Hu, Shuyi Pei, Yangwook Kang, Yufei Ding, Po-An Tsai
  The International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2026
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