CV
Yijiahao (Friedrich) Qi
Summary
First-year Ph.D. student in ECE at Cornell University working on efficient and scalable systems for machine learning, with an emphasis on distributed training and inference.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer EngineeringCornell University
- B.S. in Applied Physics (EECS Department)2026-07Peking UniversityGPA: 3.75/4.0 (Top 18%)
Skills
Programming
- C++
- Python
- PyTorch
- Verilog
Developer tools
- Vivado
- Vitis
- Linux
- Git
- Docker
Publications
- CREATE: Cross-Layer Resilience Characterization and Optimization for Efficient yet Reliable Embodied AI Systems2026ASPLOS 2026Characterizes the reliability of LLM-based embodied AI systems at the application, system, and circuit levels, and proposes error detection and correction techniques for efficient yet reliable embodied AI. (Co-first author.)
- Faster-MoA: Low-Latency Tree-Structured MoA Serving with Early Exit and Agent-Aware Prefill-Decode Overlap2026DAC 2026Accelerates Mixture-of-Agents serving with a tree-structured aggregation architecture, semantic-similarity-based early exit, and agent-aware prefill-decode overlap. (Co-first author.)
- DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation2026DAC 2026Adaptive layer-skipping for VLA model inference based on task requirements and motion significance, cutting trainable parameters by 85.7× versus full fine-tuning.