Rui Li

PhD Student

Rui Li
  • Systems and Networking
  • MS in Computer Science, Tsinghua University 
  • BS in Computer Science, Nankai University

Rui Li is a PhD student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor’s in computer science from Nankai University and his master’s in computer science from Tsinghua University. Li is advised by Professor Gene Cooperman and Professor Devesh Tiwari.

His current research interest is to improve the reliability and efficiency of large-scale systems and networks through machine learning methods. Li previously focused on network traffic classification at Tsinghua University

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his cat.

  • BootSeer: Analyzing and Mitigating Initialization Bottlenecks in Large-Scale LLM Training

    Citation: Rui Li, Xiaoyun Zhi, Jinxin Chi, Menghan Yu, Lixin Huang, Jia Zhu, Weilun Zhang, Xing Ma, Wenjia Liu, Zhicheng Zhu, Daowen Luo, Zuquan Song, Xin Yin, Chao Xiang, Shuguang Wang, Wencong Xiao, Gene Cooperman. (2025). BootSeer: Analyzing and Mitigating Initialization Bottlenecks in Large-Scale LLM Training CoRR, abs/2507.12619. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12619

  • Automated Intelligent Healing in Cloud-Scale Data Centers

    Citation: Li, R., Cheng, Z., Lee, P. P., Wang, P., Qiang, Y., Lan, L., ... & Ding, X. (2021, September). Automated Intelligent Healing in Cloud-Scale Data Centers. In 2021 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) (pp. 244-253). IEEE.

  • Byte Segment Neural Network for Network Traffic Classification

    Citation: R. Li, X. Xiao, S. Ni, H. Zheng and S. Xia, "Byte Segment Neural Network for Network Traffic Classification," 2018 IEEE/ACM 26th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Banff, AB, Canada, 2018, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/IWQoS.2018.8624128.