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.