Zhiyao Li is currently an MLSys Researcher at Bytedance Seed. He obtained his PhD from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS) at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Mingyu Gao. He worked on 3D stacked memory-based dataflow accelerator as a research intern at Alibaba DAMO computing technology lab. After this, he worked with Prof. Kunle Olukotun as a visiting student researcher at Stanford University on dataflow AI accelerator design and optimization. After PhD graduation, he joined Huawei Network Technology Lab as a scale-up AI network system researcher. At late 2025, he joined Bytedance Seed as Machine Learning System Research Scientist. He obtained a bachelor degree from the Excellent Engineer Class of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University. His research interests include LLM training/serving on rack-scale AI cluster, low-latency AI accelerator design, high-performance scale-up/out network, and dynamic & sparse computing.