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. I have authored multiple papers published in top-tier computer architecture conferences, including ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA.

Research Interests

My research interests include computer architecture, with a focus on memory system optimization and profile-guided optimization.

Publication

• Mengming Li, Qijun Zhang, Yichuan Gao, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Yongqing Ren, and Zhiyao Xie, "Profile-Guided Temporal Prefetching". In 52th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2025).

• 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, Wenji Fang, Qijun Zhang, and Zhiyao Xie, "SpecLLM: Exploring Generation and Review of VLSI Design Specification with Large Language Model". In 3th International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA 2025).

• Qijun Zhang, Mengming Li, Andrea Mondelli, and Zhiyao Xie, "An Architecture-Level CPU Modeling Framework for Power and Other Design Qualities". In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.

• Qijun Zhang, Mengming Li, Yao Lu, and Zhiyao Xie, "FirePower: Towards a Foundation with Generalizable Knowledge for Architecture-Level Power Modeling". In Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025).

• Qijun Zhang, Yao Lu, Mengming Li, and Zhiyao Xie, "AutoPower: Automated Few-Shot Architecture-Level Power Modeling by Power Group Decoupling". In ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 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.

• 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).

• 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.