Presenter

Yafan Huang is an assistant professor in Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. Computer Science from the University of Iowa, where he was also a visiting graduate student at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), scientific applications, and machine learning systems, with particular interests in data compression, fault tolerance, parallel computing, and compiler optimizations. Yafan is the recipient of the 2025 ACM–IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship and is selected as a Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star 2026. His work has received multiple best paper finalist and award recognition at system conferences, including SC'22, SC'24, ICS'25, and LDAV'25.