About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky and director of the THREAD Lab. THREAD stands for Techniques for High-performance, Resource-Efficient Analytics and Data.
My research focuses on High-Performance Computing, accelerated computing, data analysis, and data reduction, with applications in scientific computing, AI systems, and quantum simulation.
I received my Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington, my M.S. from the University of Southern California, and my B.Eng. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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2026.08
Xizhi Zhan joined THREAD Lab.
2026.08
Joined the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor.
2026.03
Two papers accepted at IPDPS'26.
2025.11
Served as a student volunteer at SC'25.
2025.06
Awarded Best Paper Runner-Up at ACM ICS'25 for BMQSim.
2025.06
Nominated as Best Paper Candidate at ACM ICS'25 for Aatrox.
2025.06
One paper accepted at SC'25.
2025.05
Joined ByteDance (Seed, ML Systems) as a research intern, working on LLM inference optimization.
2025.03
Three papers accepted at ICS'25.
2024.10
One paper and one poster accepted at PPoPP'25.
2024.07
Two papers accepted at SC'24.
2024.02
One paper accepted at DAC'24.
2023.11
Served as a student volunteer at SC'23.
2023.05
Joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a research intern.
2023.04
One paper accepted at HPDC'23.
2023.04
One paper accepted at ICS'23.
2022.08
Started research collaboration with Meta on compression for distributed training.