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Xiaoyi Lu, P.h.D.

Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Contact

Email: xiaoyilu@ufl.edu

Research Interests

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Scalable, Efficient, and Secure Systems for HPC, Big Data, AI, Cloud, and Edge Computing
  • High-Performance Communication and I/O Technologies (e.g., RDMA, PMEM, NVMe, GPU, and DPU)
  • Scalable Algorithms and System Software for Data-Intensive Applications
  • Interdisciplinary Computing for Social Good

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Honors and Awards

  • Amazon Research Award – Amazon Inc., 2025. (My role: PI)
  • Best Paper Award Nomination – The 38th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2024. (My role: Advisor)
  • NSF CAREER Award – National Science Foundation, 2024.
  • Affiliated Faculty – AgAID Institute, Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support, funded by NSF and USDA-NIFA by the AI Research Institutes Program, July 2023 — now.
  • Amazon Research Award – Amazon Inc., 2023. (My role: Sole PI)
  • Google Research Award – Google LLC, 2022. (My role: Sole PI)
  • Meta/Facebook Faculty Research Award – Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly named Facebook Inc.), 2022. (My role: Sole PI)
  • Scientific Teaching Fellow – Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching, UC Merced, 2021. (My role: Awardee)
  • Best Paper Award Nomination – International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring, and Optimizing (Bench), 2019. (My role: Advisor)
  • Best Paper Award Nomination – IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2019. (My role: Co-Advisor)
  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist – The 32nd International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2019. (My role: Advisor)
  • Best Paper Award – International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring, and Optimizing (Bench), 2018. (My role: Advisor)
  • Best Poster Paper Award – International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Architecture & Networks Track, 2018. (My role: Co-Author)
  • Best Student Paper Award – The 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2017. (My role: Co-Author)
  • Best Paper Award Nomination – The IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), 2014. (My role: Co-Author)
  • Best Student Paper Award – The IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), 2013. (My role: Co-Author)
  • Best Paper Award – The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2011. (My role: First Author)