Hi~ I am Mengming Li (李孟明 in Chinese). I am a Ph.D. student at the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Zhiyao Xie. Before joining HKUST, I received my Master’s degree at Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Kai Bu, and my bachelor’s degree from Guangdong Ocean University.

Research Interests

My research interests include computer architecture, with a focus on memory system optimization.

Publication

• Mengming Li, Qijun Zhang, Yongqing Ren, and Zhiyao Xie, "Integrating Prefetcher Selection with Dynamic Request Allocation Improves Prefetching Efficiency". In 31th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2025).

• Mengming Li, Kai Bu, Chenlu Miao, and Kui Ren, "TreasureCache: Hiding Cache Evictions against Side-Channel Attacks". In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), January 2024.

• Jingsen Zhu, Mengming Li, Xingjian Zhang, Kai Bu, Miao Zhang, and Tianqi Song, "Hitchhiker: Accelerating ORAM With Dynamic Scheduling". In IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), September 2022.

• Mengming Li, Chenlu Miao, Yilong Yang, and Kai Bu, "unXpec: Breaking Undo-based Safe Speculation". In 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2022). (The first HPCA paper from Zhejiang University)

• Chenlu Miao, Kai Bu, Mengming Li, Shaowu Mao, and Jianwei Jia, "SwiftDir: Secure Cache Coherence without Overprotection". In 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2022).