“The review process for his ISCA-2019 paper was broken, and most of the reviewers of the paper are “friends” of his advisor Dr. Tao Li.”
A PhD student said his advisor pushed him to submit results he believed were wrong, then took his own life. An ACM and IEEE committee has now confirmed the review process was broken and stacked with the advisor’s friends. Peer review is supposed to be the safeguard. Here it was part of the problem, and the student paid for it.