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Brief Bio

I am a 4th-year PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida, advised by Prof. Jun Wang. I received my Master of Science degree from Georgia Tech and my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Wuhan University. I have also worked as research intern at Microsoft Research and Google AI Research. I am one of the cohorts for ML and System Rising Stars 2025.

My research interests lie in the intersections of machine learning and computer systems (MLSys). I build efficient and resilient machine learning systems for large-scale AI models.

• Efficient AI: ISCA'24, AAAI'25, ICLR'26
• Algorithm-System Co-Design: ISCA'24, ICCAD'24
• AI Infrastructure: ISCA'24, ICCAD'24, MLSys'26

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Preprint

• TIDE: Efficient and Lossless MoE Diffusion LLM Inference with I/O-aware Expert Offload Zhiben Chen*, Youpeng Zhao*, Yang Sui, Jun Wang, Yuzhang Shang Preprint [Arxiv] [Project] [Code] (*: equal contribution)

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Selected Publications

• GhostServe: A Lightweight Checkpointing System in the Shadow for Fault-Tolerant LLM Serving Shakya Jayakody*, Youpeng Zhao*†, Chinmay Nehate, Jun Wang MLSys 2026 [Arxiv] [Code] (*: equal contribution ,  †: project lead)
• MeRino: Entropy-driven Design for Generative Language Models on IoT Devices Youpeng Zhao, Ming Lin, Huadong Tang, Qiang Wu, Jun Wang AAAI 2025 [Arxiv]
• ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching Youpeng Zhao, Di Wu, Jun Wang ISCA 2024 [Arxiv]

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Links

• Google Scholar.
  
• LinkedIn.
  
• GitHub.
  

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Fun Facts

• I used to play some elecctronic keyboard and won a national prize in 2008 🎹
• I played a bit college Esports (R6 Siege) and was the founding member of GT R6 Team in 2020 ⚔️
• My Chinese name is 有朋, which means having friends from all over the world 🤓
• My English name is Kenneth, but people usually call me Ken or Kenny 😎