CV

Yijiahao (Friedrich) Qi

yq335@cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY, US

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 Engineering
    Cornell University
  • B.S. in Applied Physics (EECS Department)
    2026-07
    Peking University
    GPA: 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 Systems
    2026
    ASPLOS 2026
    Characterizes 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 Overlap
    2026
    DAC 2026
    Accelerates 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 Manipulation
    2026
    DAC 2026
    Adaptive layer-skipping for VLA model inference based on task requirements and motion significance, cutting trainable parameters by 85.7× versus full fine-tuning.