Students

Ph.D. Students

    Jinqi Xiao (Spring 22 ~ Now)

             BS (CS): Sichuan Univ.     MS(CS): Sichuan Univ.

             Research Area: Efficient AI

             Intern at ByteDance USA

    Cheng Yang (Fall 23 ~ Now)

            BS (EE): Hunan Agriculture Univ.     MS(EE): Huazhong Univ. of S&T 

            Research Area: Efficient Embodied AI

    Yibiao Ying (Fall 24 ~ Now)

             BS (Mech.): Shandong Univ.     MS(Mech.): Purdue Univ.

             Research Area: Secure and Efficient AI

             Intern at Amazon

    Zhexiang Tang (Fall 24 ~ Now)

             BS (EE): China Jiliang Univ.     MS(EE): Univ. of Southern California

             Research Area: Domain-specific Computing Hardware

             Intern at ScaleFlux

    Junhao Ran  (Fall 25 ~ Now)

            BS (CS):  Chinese University of Hongkong    MS(EE): Rice University

            Research Area: Generative AI

Ph.D. Alumni

      Lingyi Huang (Fall 20 ~ Summer 2025)

             BS (EE): Xidian Univ.   MS (EE): New York Univ.

             Dissertation: Hardware Acceleration for Real-time Energy-Efficient SLAM and Moiton Planning

              Intern at ON Semiconductor, Cadence, Nvidia

              First placement: Nvidia

     Yu Gong (Fall 21 ~ Summer 2025)

              BS (EE): Wuhan Univ. of Tech.   MS (EE): Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

              Dissertation: Hardware and Algorithm Co-design for Deep Learning Acceleration

              Intern at ScaleFlux, Samsung Research

              First placement: Amazon

    Yang Sui (Spring 20 ~ Summer 24)

              BS (EE): Jilin Univ.    MS (EE): Jilin Univ.

              PhD Dissertation: Advancing Efficient Deep Learning: An Exploration of Model Compression From Classification to Generative Model 

              Intern at Tencent USA, Snap Research

              First placement: Post-Doc in Rice University

     Huy Phan (Fall 20 ~ Summer 24)

              BS (ECE/CS): Rutgers Univ.   MS (ECE): Rutgers Univ.

              PhD Dissertation: Eefficient and Secure Deep Learning Systems for Resource-Constrained Enviornments 

              Intern at MoMo, Amazon 

              First placement: Amazon

    Xiao Zang (Fall 19 ~ Spring 24)

             BS (CS): Dalian Univ. of Tech.    MS (CS): Stevens. Inst. of Tech. 

      Dissertation: Graph Neural Network and Motion Planning 

      Intern at Google, Meta      

      First placement: Meta

    Miao Yin (Fall 19 ~ Summer 2023)

             BS (EE): Nanjing Univ. of P&T    MS (EE): Univ. of Elec. S&T of China 

             PhD Dissertation: Towards Efficient Deep Learning 

             Intern at Google, Amazon, Samsung

             First placement: Assistant Professor in University of Texas, Arlington 

     Yi Xie (Fall 16 ~ Fall 21)

              BS (EE): Jilin Univ. 

              PhD Dissertation: Cultivating Robustness and Efficiency of Deep Learning 

              Intern at Amazon, IBM, Bell Lab

              First placement: Amazon

     Chunhua Deng (Fall 17 ~ Spring 21)

             BS (EE): China Univ. of Petroleum    MS (EE): Beijing Inst. of Tech.

             PhD Dissertation: Algorithm-Hardware Co-design For Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Networks  

             Intern at IBM, Mathworks

             First placement: ScaleFlux

     Siyu Liao (Fall 16 -Spring 20)

              BS (CS): Hefei Univ. of Tech.     MS (CS): City Univ. of New York 

              PhD Dissertation: Structured Deep Neural Network with Low Complexity 

              Intern at Meta, IBM

              First placement: Amazon

M.S. Students

     Aoxu Zhang  

M.S. Alumni

     Zixuan Wang (graduated in 2024) Next Move: Ph. D. student in University of Delaware

     Huy Phan (graduated in 2020) Next Move: Ph.D. student in Rutgers University 

     Weitian Li (graduated in 2019) Next Move: Ph.D. student in Rutgers University

     Zhuohang Li (graduated in 2019) Next Move: Ph.D. student in Vanderbilt University

Undergraduate Intern

     Han Liu (summer intern in 2019) Next Move: Ph.D. student in Washington Univ. in St. Louis

     Xiaofeng Hu (summer intern in 2019) Next Move: Ph.D. student in Cornell Tech.