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I have joined Facebook as a Research Scientist.
I got my PhD in ECE and MS in Computer Engineering at University of Missouri - Columbia , USA.
I was under the supervision of Prof. Michela Becchi.
I got my Bachelor Degree in Automation at Beijing Institute of Technology , China.

Contact Me:
349 Engineering Building West
 Columbia, MO 65211 [LinkedIn]

News

  • Passed Doctoral Defense
  • Paper Accepted by SustainCom'16

Research interests

  • Parallel Computing: optimization, programming model, compiler and runtime for many-core
  • Machine Learning: building large-scale machine learning systems, GPU accelerated machine learning
  • Embedded System: GPU computing on embedded systems, mobile computing

Work Experience:

  • Facebook (2016 - present)
  • Sony U.S. Research Center (2015)
  • AT&T Labs Research America (2014)
  • NEC Laboratories America (2013)
  • Taobao, Alibaba Group (2011)

Publications

  • Facilitating Emerging Applications on Many-core Processors
    Da Li [ PDF ]
    Dissertation , Columbia, MO, USA, July, 2016.

  • Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on CPUs and GPUs
    Da Li*, Xinbo Chen*, Michela Becchi, Ziliang Zong (* both are leading authors) [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom '16) , Atlanta, GA, USA, October, 2016.

  • Compiler-Assisted Workload Consolidation for Efficient Dynamic Parallelism on GPU
    Hancheng Wu*, Da Li*, Michela Becchi (* both are leading authors) [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '16) , Chicago, Illinois, USA, May, 2016.

  • Facilitating Irregular Applications on Many-Core Processors
    Da Li [ Paper , Slides , Poster ]
    In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '15 Doctoral Showcase) , Austin, TX, USA, November 2015.

  • Nested Parallelism on GPU: Exploring Parallelization Templates for Irregular Loops and Recursive Computations
    Da Li, Hancheng Wu, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '15) , Beijing, China, September, 2015.

  • Exploiting Dynamic Parallelism to Efficiently Support Irregular Nested Loops on GPUs
    Da Li, Hancheng Wu, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In International Workshop on Code OptimiSation for Multi and Many Cores (COSMIC '15) , San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Feburary, 2015.

  • GRapid: a Compilation and Runtime Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Graph Applications on Many-core Processors
    Da Li, Srimat Chakradhar, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS '14) , Hsinchu, Taiwan, December, 2014.

  • Large-Scale Pairwise Alignments on GPU Clusters: Exploring the Implementation Space
    Huan Truong, Da Li, Kittisak Sajjapongse, Gavin Conant, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In Journal of Signal Processing Systems , Volume 77, Issue 1-2, October, 2014.

  • A Distributed CPU-GPU Framework for Pairwise Alignments on Large-Scale Sequence Datasets
    Da Li, Kittisak Sajjapongse, Huan Truong, Gavin Conant, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP '13) , Washington D.C., USA, June, 2013.

  • Deploying Graph Algorithms on GPUs: an Adaptive Solution
    Da Li, Michela Becchi [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '13) , Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May, 2013.

  • Multi-Source Data Oriented Flexible Real-time Information Fusion Platform on FPGA
    Tian Song, Da Li, Ying Yao [ PDF ]
    In IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC '11) , Ningbo, China, September, 2011.

Posters

  • Designing Code Variants for Applications with Nested Parallelism on GPUs
    Da Li, Michela Becchi [ Poster ]
    In GPU Technology Conference (GTC '15) , Silicon Valley, CA, USA, March 2015.

  • Multiple Pairwise Sequence Alignments with the Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm on GPU
    Da Li, Michela Becchi [ Paper , Poster ]
    In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '12) , Salt Lake City, UT, USA, November 2012.

  • Software Support for Regular and Irregular Applications in Parallel Computing
    Da Li, Michela Becchi [ Slides , Poster ]
    In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '12) , Salt Lake City, UT, USA, November 2012.

Patents

  • Learning Convolution Neural Networks on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platform (July 2015, Application No.15/217,475)
    Ming-Chang Liu, Xun Xu, Da Li

  • Source-to-source Transformations for Graph Processing on Many-core Platforms (May 2016, Patent No.9335981)
    Srimat Chakradhar, Michela Becchi, Da Li

  • A Multiple String Matching Method for Search Engine (December 2012, Patent No.201010232463.2)
    Tian Song, Da Li