Jianping Li

About Me

I am a CS graudate student at UIUC. I am fortunate to work with Minjia Zhang at UIUC. My research interests lie in Machine Learning Systems. Specially, I am excited about how to make LLM training and inference efficient on a large-scale distributed system.

I love building open-source software, and I am always open to research collaboration. Feel free to contact me via email.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.S. Computer Science
2024 - Present

University of Pennsylvania
M.S. Robotics
2022 - 2024

ShanghaiTech University
B.E. Computer Science
2018 - 2022

Experience

Meta
Software Engineer Intern
May 2025 - August 2025

Trade Terminal
Software Engineer Intern
December 2023 - January 2024

DiDi
Software Engineer Intern
June 2023 - September 2023

Publications

X-MoE: Enabling Scalable Training for Emerging Mixture-of-Experts Architectures on HPC Platforms

Yueming Yuan, Ahan Gupta, Jianping Li, Sajal Dash, Feiyi Wang, Minjia Zhang

SC'2025 (Best Student Paper Nomination)

Paper / Code
MiniKV: Pushing the Limits of LLM Inference via 2-Bit Layer-Discriminative KV Cache

Akshat Sharma, Hangliang Ding, Jianping Li, Neel Dani, Minjia Zhang

ACL'2025 (Findings)

Paper / Code