# Qing Li

> Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group

Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/qingli

Expertise on the following areas:
Storage: Linux block device, memory management module,  file system, etc;
Coding:  Polar code, LDPC, etc;
AI:  AI for & by Information theory.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
File system on cloud.

### Technologist, R&D Engineering, CTO Group @ HGST, a Western Digital brand
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Milpitas CA
– System Research: Focus on software management of NVMs.
HMMAP, a lightweight and efficient memory tiering;
HugeMD, Hugepage management based on memory deduplication;
AutoTiering, page migration scheme for multi-tiered memories;
SmallChia, reduce Chia plotting memory space by 22 % without performance degradation.
– Deep Learning Research: Focus on connections between information theory and deep learning. Inversion via rate-distortion posterior sampling / conconcatenated generative models; Estimation rate-distortion with energy-based models/GANs.

### Research And Development Engineer @ ScaleFlux
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
– Work on computational storage and its applications based optimizations.
– Design and implement block device driver/block flash translation layer from scratch to the customer support for the first three products of ScaleFlux Inc.
– Work on various features such as block device, coherence manager, read manager, write manager, temperature/IO throttle, garbage collection, wear-leveling, read disturb, read scrub, smart-log, simulator, performance tuning, error handling for read/program/erase, multi-stream supported SSDs, atomic write etc.

### Staff Engineer @ Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
FTL for BICS based SSDs.

### Research assistant @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Bryan/College Station, Texas Area
Research topics include Polar Codes, LDPC codes and their applications to SSDs.

### Research Intern @ SanDisk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | SanJose

### NAND Flash engineering (summer research intern) @ SanDisk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
Working with Dr. Hao Zhong, focusing on polar code and its applications to flash memories.


## Education
### Ph.D in Computer Science
Texas A&M University

### B.E in Computer Science
University of Science and Technology of China


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/qing-li-7357462b

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Last updated: 2026-04-12