About Me

I am a tenure-track assistant professor (starting Fall 2023) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University.

I previously worked as a principal engineer at TSMC, San Jose, CA. Before that, I was a post-doctoral research associate at Washington University in St. Louis where I also obtained my Ph.D. degree.

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students starting in the Fall, Summer, and Spring of each Calendar year to join my team. If you are interested in working with me, please take a look at "Projects/Openings" and drop me an email at (weidong.cao AT gwu.edu).

My research lies in developing advanced algorithms and computing hardware for intelligent autonomous systems by harnessing and integrating techniques from multi-modal AI, multimodal sensors, multi-modal computing fabric, integrated circuits, physics, and information theory, including:

1) Efficient and robust edge ML systems with multi-modal computing fabric: Efficient, flexible, and resilient inference/training computing fabric for edge systems through the co-design/optimization of computer hardware (e.g., in/near-memory computing), architecture (e.g., ECC), and ML algorithms (e.g., compression and quantization);

2) Multi-modal development of novel circuits and computing systems with physics and AI: Physics-inspired development and generative AI-driven electronic design automation for novel very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) and computing systems;

3) Efficient and adaptive sensor fusion and information processing with multi-modal learning: Compressive, adaptive, and privacy-preserving multi-modal sensor.

Education background:

Ph.D.,   Washington University in St. Louis       2021

M.S.,   Washington University in St. Louis       2019

M.S.,   Tsinghua University       2016

B.S.,   Northwestern Polytechnical University       2013

Professional Experience:

Principal Research Engineer in AI hardware

TSMC Corporate Research, San Jose, CA, USA                July 2022 – July 2023

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA                                       Aug. 2021 – Jun. 2022

Research Intern

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Boston, MA, USA                                  Sep. 2020 – Apr. 2021