Computer Architecture Research

Daoxuan Xu

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at William & Mary, advised by Prof. Yifan Sun and Prof. Jie Ren. My work focuses on GPU architecture, wafer-scale systems, and tools for architecture simulation and performance analysis.

Latest

Highlights

Two papers were accepted by HPCA 2026: QuCo and HDPAT.

Sibir was accepted by ISPASS 2025.

Selected Work

Publications

Research

What I Work On

01

Wafer-scale GPU architecture

Studying memory translation, communication, and system organization for large-scale GPU platforms.

02

GPU performance tooling

Building and evaluating tools that make GPU behavior easier to inspect, instrument, and explain.

03

Architecture simulation

Developing simulation workflows for exploring design tradeoffs in modern computer architecture.

Background

Education

William & Mary

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Florida

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beijing Technology & Business University

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Community

Talks & Service

Talks

  • HDPAT: Hierarchical Distributed Page Address Translation for Wafer-Scale GPUsGPGPU 2026
  • Exploring the Wafer-Scale GPUsGPGPU 2025

Service

  • Publication ChairGPGPU 2026
  • Artifact Evaluation CommitteeIISWC 2025
  • External ReviewerComputing Frontiers 2024