Lab Mission

Supercomputing System and AI Lab (SSAIL) is an active research lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The lab mission is (A) building next-generation AI systems for scalable and efficient intelligence; (B) enabling new system and modeling capabilities via deep innovations, advancing the state-of-the-arts, and (C) making the technology available to everyone.

  News
  • [6/25/2025] SSAIL Lab's work SuperOffload, which enables efficient and cost-effective training of LLMs on Superchips, has been accepted at ASPLOS 2026. Only 20 of 208 submissions were accepted. Congratulations, Xinyu, Masahiro, and Tunji!
  • [6/25/2025] SSAIL Lab's work, InstantEdit, which enables efficient text-guided image editing, has been accepted at ICCV 2025. Congratulations, Nick and Zhen!
  • [6/20/2025] Minjjia has been selected to recevie the inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. Thank you, Google!
  • [6/9/2025] SSAIL member Xinyu Lian received USENIX ATC'25 student travel grant to present Universal Checkpointing at Boston. Congratulations, Xinyu!
  • [5/23/2025] SSAIL lab's work VecFlow has been accepted at SIGMOD 2025! Congratulations, Jingyi, Chenghao, and Ben!
  • [5/15/2025] SSAIL Lab's work on improving KV cache efficiency and trustworthy LLM have been accepted at ACL Finding 2025! Congratulations MiniKV and MedCite team!
  • [5/1/2025] SSAIL member Yueming Yuan received MLSys'25 student travel grant to present the work MiLo at Santa Clara.
  • [4/25/2025] SSAIL Lab's work on universal checkpointing for large-scale reconfigurable parallelism has been accepted at USENIX ATC 2025. 100 out of 634 submissions were accepted. Congratulations, Xinyu Lian!
  • [2/11/2025] SSAIL Lab's work on compressing MoE models, including DeepSeek-MoE, has been accepted at MLSys 2025. Congratulations, Beichen, Yueming, and Zelei!
  • [2/3/2025] SSAIL member Xinyu Lian received the Amazon PhD Fellowship! Congratulations, Xinyu, and thank you, Amazon!
  • [12/31/2024] Minjia received the NSF CAREER award, which will support our work on powering the next-generation AI models!
  • [7/1/2024] Universal Checkpointing has been released in DeepSpeed! [中文] [日本語]
  • [1/16/2024] Minjia officially joined UIUC!

Xinyu Lian

Ph.D Student
Amazon PhD Fellowship
USENIX ATC'25 Travel Award


Yueming Yuan

Ph.D Student
MLSys'25 Travel Award


Jiankun Wang

Ph.D Student


Haochen Shen

Ph.D Student


Ahan Gupta

Ph.D Student


Akshat Sharma

MS Student
Next: Amazon


Xiao Wang

MS Student
Next: Microsoft


Hongbo Zheng

MS Student


Zelei Shao

MS Student


Jianping Li

MS Student


Neel Dani

MS Student


Chenghao Mo

MS Student

Undergrad

Interns (over 6 months)

    Zheng Wang (M.S., Georgia Tech, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024)
    Mengjue Tan (M.S., Brown University, Summer 2024 - Winter 2024)
    Yuyi Ao (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Fall 2024, Joined the Master program at CMU)
    Banghao Chi (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024, Joined the Master program at UIUC)
    Beichen Huang (B.S., McMaster University, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024, Joined the Master program at CMU)
    Shihan Lin (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Fall 2024)
    Tong Wei (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024)
    Xingru Lu (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024)
    Eddie Gao (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024, Joined the Master program at CMU)
    Wendi Wang (B.S., UIUC, Spring 2024 - Winter 2024)
    Hoa La (B.S., UMass, Summer 2024 - )
    Prajwal Hegde (B.S., UIUC, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025)
    Jacob Xianyu (B.S., UIUC, Winter 2024 - )