Publications
For those not familiar with the field of computer architecture, publication in top international conferences is the preferred means of disseminating research results in this area. Papers in proceedings of top conferences, often with acceptance rates below 20%, are more important than journals. The top computer architecture conferences are
ISCA,
MICRO,
HPCA, and
ASPLOS. Added together, the four conferences above publish only 120 to 160 papers per year. Due to their impact, these conferences are very well attended. Given their importance, papers published in the proceedings of these conferences are read and cited by active researchers in the area even if those researchers did not attend the conference.
Conference Papers
R. Aligholipour, S. Kaxiras and Yuan Yao
In 2026 ACM/IEEE 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2026
Chiplets; PHY modeling; inter-chiplet links; architecture simulation
[To appear]
Links: arXiv, GitHub repository
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Yuan Yao, S. Li, R. Aligholipour and S. Kaxiras
In 2026 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF), 2026
Virtual memory; page-table walks; networks-on-chip; concurrent data structures
Paper
S. Li, L. Mottola, Yuan Yao and S. Kaxiras
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (SenSys), 2026
Embedded AI; CNN inference; ultra-low-power computing; microcontrollers
Paper
J. Söderström, R. Aligholipour and Yuan Yao
In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2026
gem5; call-stack profiling; architecture simulation; observability
Paper
Artifact in Zenodo

R. Aligholipour and Yuan Yao
In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2025
Chiplet-specific execution phenomena in graph workloads.
Paper
Artifact in Zenodo

R. Aligholipour, P. Aimoniotis, S. Kaxiras and Yuan Yao
In 39th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2025
Early acceptance paper
Paper
Yuan Yao, X. Chen, H. Atmer and S. Kaxiras
In 2024 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2024
Bit-Parallel, Energy-Efficient Multiply Accumulate, Deep Neural Networks
Best computer architecture track paper
Paper
Weining Song, Stefanos Kaxiras, Thiemo Voigt, Yuan Yao, and Luca Mottola
In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2024
Task decoupling, Internet of Things (IoT), energy harvesting, intermittent computing
Paper
Weining Song, Stefanos Kaxiras, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, and Yuan Yao
In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2023
sensor network;store buffer;silent store;low power devices
Paper
P. Ekemark, Yuan Yao, A. Ros, K. Sagonas and S. Kaxiras
In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2021
Protocols;Program processors;Nonvolatile memory;Computational modeling;Semantics;Coherence;Computer architecture;non-volatile memory;persistent memory;persistency;total store order;coherence
I am co-first author
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In 2018 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2018
Instruction sets;Spinning;Liquid crystal on silicon;Coherence;Acceleration;Routing protocols;In Network Packet Generation;Critical Section;Synchronisation Primitive;Cache Coherency;Network on Chip;CMP
Best-paper candidate
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In 2016 ACM/IEEE 43rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2016
Critical Section; CMP; NoC; OS
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2016
Switches;Resource management;Delays;Load modeling;Nickel;Tuning;Benchmark testing
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2016
DVFS, Multi-core
Paper
Z. Lu, Yuan Yao and Y. Jiang
In 2014 Eighth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS), 2014
Stochastic processes;Delays;Interference;Calculus;Analytical models;Servers;System-on-chip[<35;31;32M
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In 2014 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2014
Delays;Regulators;Fuzzy logic;Network-on-chip;Throughput;Pragmatics;Multiprocessor interconnection;Network-on-Chip;Chip Multiprocessor;Flow Regulation;Fuzzy Logic
Paper
Journal Articles
Yuan Yao
In IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, March 2023), 2023
Artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, AI accelerators.
Paper
Yuan Yao
In IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, March 2023), 2023
Dynamic voltage scaling, multiprocessor interconnection, automata.
Paper
Yuan Yao and Z. Lu
In IEEE Transactions on Computers (Volume: 69, Issue: 3, 01 March 2020) , 2020
Power demand;Message systems;Tuning;Thermal management;Monitoring;Energy consumption;Power system management;Manycore processor;DVFS;NoC;power efficiency;CMP
Paper
Z. Lu and Yuan Yao
In IEEE Transactions on Computers ( Volume: 67, Issue: 10, 01 October 2018) , 2018
Measurement;Message systems;System-on-chip;Instruction sets;Voltage control;Load modeling;Power system management;Chip manycore processor (CMP);DVFS;network on chip (NoC);power/energy efficiency
Paper
Z. Lu and Yuan Yao
In IEEE Transactions on Computers (Volume: 66, Issue: 11, 01 November 2017) , 2017
Energy efficiency;Power demand;Measurement;Benchmark testing;Energy efficiency;Network-on-chip;Program processors;Performance evaluation;power efficiency;DVFS;network-on-chip (NoC);CMP
Paper
Z. Lu and Yuan Yao
In IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (Volume: 25, Issue: 2, February 2017) , 2017
Delays;System performance;IP networks;Nickel;Regulators;Calculus;Network-on-chip;Chip multi/many-core processor (CMP);fuzzy control;multi/many-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoC);network-on-chip (NoC);traffic engineering
Paper
Zhonghai Lu and Yuan Yao
In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 13, Issue 4 Article No.: 53, Pages 1 - 27, 2016
computer architecture, performance fairness, quality of service
Paper
arXiv Preprints
R. Aligholipour, S. Kaxiras and Yuan Yao
In arXiv preprint, 2026
Detailed inter-chiplet end-to-end PHY modeling for accurate chiplet simulation.
Links: arXiv, GitHub repository
H. Atmer, Yuan Yao, T. Voigt, and S. Kaxiras
In arXiv preprint, 2025
SRAM and frequency tradeoffs for the compute-bound prefill and memory-bound decode phases of LLM inference.
Paper
J. Söderström and Yuan Yao
In arXiv preprint, 2025
An architectural guide to gem5 CPU models and the Ruby memory system.
Paper