People

About PI

    PI Bo Yuan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. He received Ph.D. degree (Electrical Engineering) from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota, Twin cities in 2015,  under the supervision of Prof. Keshab K. Parhi.  He received Bachelor degree (Physics) and Master degree (Microelectronics)  from Department of Intensive Instruction and School of Electronics Science and Engineering in 2007 and 2010, respectively, both from Nanjing University, China. 

Current Ph.D. Students

    Cheng Yang (Fall 23 ~ Now)

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

            Research Area: Efficient Embodied AI

            Intern at Dexmate 

    Yibiao Ying (Fall 24 ~ Now)

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

             Research Area: Efficient Generative AI

             Intern at Amazon, Tecent

    Zhexiang Tang (Fall 24 ~ Now)

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

             Research Area: AI Hardware and System

             Intern at ScaleFlux

    Junhao Ran  (Fall 25 ~ Now)

            BS (CS):  Chinese Univ. of Hongkong    MS (EE): Rice Univ.

            Research Area: Efficient Generative AI

    Yidong Zhou (Spring 26)

            BS (Physics):  Nankai Univ.    MS (Physics): Brown Univ.

            Research Area: Quantum Computing

     Aoxu Zhang (Fall 26)

            BS (EE):  Beijing Jiaotong Univ.    MS (EE): Rutgers Univesity

            Research Area: Visual Understanding and Generation

Ph.D. Alumni

    Jinqi Xiao (Spring 22 ~Spring 26)

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

             Dissertation: Structural Optimization for Efficient Deep Learning: A Unified Framework from Inference to Training 

             Intern at ByteDance USA,   FinBone  

             First placement:  FinBone (Acquired by Netflix);   Now: Netflix

     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;   Now Microsoft AI

     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;   Now: Uber 

    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;   Now:   Associate Professor in Sun Yat-sen University

Current 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.