Supercomputing System AI Lab (SSAIL)

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

[7/4/2025] SSAIL Lab's work FlexGaussian, which enables flexible and efficient compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting models, has been accepted at ACM MM 2025 (Oral). Congratulations, Boyuan, Eddie, Jacob, and Xiaotong!
[6/26/2025] SSAIL Lab's work X-MoE, which enables efficient and cross-platform training of emerging expert-specialized MoE models such as DeepSeek-MoE, has been accepted at SC 2025. Only 136 of 643 submissions were accepted. Congratulations, Yueming, Ahan, Jianping, Sajal, and Feiyi!
[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!