Research Interests
- Emerging memory and storage technologies
- Embedded systems, CPS, edge computing, and mobile applications
- Neuromorphic computing, deep learning and system security
- Low power circuit and system
Selected Grants
Neuromorphic Computing Circuit Primitive Testbeds
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2025 - 2030DoD Center of Excellence in Advanced Computing and Software (COE-ACS)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2023 - 2028GenC - Bio-Inspired Generalized Neuronal Circuits with Dendritic Plasticity and Adaptive Firing Thresholds through Hybrid CMOS-Emerging Devices Implementation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2025 - 2027CC* Integration-Large: Scaling Scientific Workloads on Distributed Commodity GPUs and Storage through Campus-level RDMA Networking
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2027AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2027EAGER: An Integrated Fiber Sensing and Communication Living Lab in the Research Triangle
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026Collaborative Research: FuSe: Efficient Situation-Aware AI Processing in Advanced 2-Terminal SOT-MRAM
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026Scalable Ultra-Low Variation Analog-Time Neuron Network (S-UATN) Accelerator
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Northwestern University · 2025 - 2025Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Revitalizing EDA from a Machine Learning Perspective
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Travel Supplement for The Vison Workshop on Distributed Computing and Swarm Intelligence
TravelPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2025IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2025Conference: 2023 CISE Computer System Research PI Meeting
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2024Collaborative Research: CCRI:NEW: Research Infrastructure for Real-Time Computer Vision and Decision Making via Mobile Robots
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2024Collaborative Research: Two-dimensional Synaptic Array for Advanced Hardware Acceleration of Deep Neural Networks
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024Acceleration for Adversarial Machine Learning (AML)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2019 - 2024Operating at the intersection of Out-of-distribution detection and adversarial machine learning
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Research Laboratory · 2021 - 2024FET: Small:RESONANCE:Accelerating Speech/Language Processing through Collective Training using Commodity ReRAM Chips
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023Distributed Heterogenous Data Analytics via Federated Learning
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2023Collaborative Workshop Proposal: Redefining the Future of Computer Architecture from First Principles
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2023RTML: Large: Collaborative: Harmonizing Predictive Algorithms and Mixed Signal/Precision Circuits via Computation-Data Access Exchange and Adaptive Dataflows
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2022SPX: Collaborative Research: Ula! - An Integrated DNN Acceleration Framework with Enhanced Unsupervised Learning Capability
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022A Collaborative Machine Learning Approach to Fast and High-Fidelity Design Prediction
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The University of Texas at Dallas · 2019 - 2021Workshop Proposal: Processing-In-Memory (PIM) Technology - Grand Challenges and Killer Applications
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2021Exploring Vulnerability & Robustness of Deep Learning Systems
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Research Laboratory · 2018 - 2021CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: Low-Power Computer Vision Platform
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2020CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: EUReCa: Enabling Untethered VR/AR System via Human-centric Graphic Computing and Distributed Data Processing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2020SMALE: Enhancing Scalability of Machine Learning Algorithms on Extreme Scale Computing Platforms
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2017 - 2020SHF:Small: Cross-Platform Solutions for Pruning and Accelerating Neural Models
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2019NeoNexus: The Next-generation Information Processing System across Digital and Neuromorphic Computing Domains
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018Planning IUCRC Duke University: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018"CAREER: Centaur: A Bio-inspired Ultra Low Power Hybrid Embedded Computing Engine Beyond One TeraFlops/Watts"
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018The Design of Neuromorphic Controller System Built with Memristor Crossbars
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pittsburgh · 2017 - 2017External Relationships
- A*STAR Singapore
- Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- City University of Hong Kong
- Eastlink Capital
- FELLOWS FUND, LLC
- Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong
- Kuwait University
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- National Science Foundation
- National Taiwan University
- NeoNexus Group
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- Texas A&M Univeristy at College Station
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- The Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (FAOS)
- The University of Hong Kong
- US Department of Energy
- University of Macau
- University of Minnesota
- Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies
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