Awards
- Best Paper Award, 2025 ICLAD
- NSF CAREER Award, 2024
- Amazon Research Award, 2024
- CISCO Research Award, 2024, 2025
- Third place at the 2024 ICCAD Contest on LLM-Assisted Hardware Code Generation
- Outstanding Student Paper Award at 2023 HPEC
- Best Paper Award at 2023 AAAI DCAA Workshop
- UConn Research Excellence Award, 2023
- First place in accuracy and fourth place overall at the 2022 ACM/IEEE TinyML Design Contest at ICCAD
- Publicity Paper at 2022 DAC
- Excellent in Teaching Award from UConn Provost, 2021
- Google's exploreCSR Award, 2021
- UConn Research Excellence Award, 2021
- Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE DATE, 2018 and 2021
- USDA-NIFA HATCH Award, 2020
- Design Automation Conference (DAC) Travel Grant, 2019
- ICCAD Travel Grant, 2018
- Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2018
- Best Poster Finalist, Numan Research Day, Syracuse University, 2017
- National Scholarship by Chinese Ministry of Education, 2008 (ranked 1st out of 300+ students)
- Baosteel Academic Scholarship, 2010
- CITIC Dameng Academic Scholarship, 2010
- Hwagain Academic Scholarship, 2008, 2010
- Second National Level in Chinese Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2009
- Third National Level in Chinese Electrician Mathematical Contest in Modeling (EMCM), 2009
Professional Activities
Editor
- Associate Editor, IEEE MWSCAS in Neural Networks Track, 2023-present
- Associate Editor, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Newsletter
Conference Organizing Committee
- ISQED 2023-present, CCH Track Chair
- ASAP 2021, Web & Registration Chair
- 2021 Google Tri-State ExploreCSR Workshop
- Travel Grant Committee Member, FPGA, 2020
Conference Program Committee
- IJCAI (Program Committee Board member)
- AAAI 2021
- IJCAI 2021, 2022, 2024
- NAACL-HLT 2021
- ISQED 2021
- ICCAD 2020, 2022, 2024
- FPGA 2020, 2021, 2022
- DAC 2020, 2021, 2022
- GLSVLSI 2020
- ISVLSI 2020, 2021
- ICCD 2020, 2024 (ComSys track co-chair)
- ECCV 2024
- ACL 2024
- MICRO 2024 (External Review Committee)
Journal/Publication Reviewer
- ACM TECS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TETC, ACM TACO, IEEE TCAS-II
- ACM ARTS, IEEE AICAS, IEEE TVLSI, ACM/IEEE DAC
- IEEE TNNLS, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Integration VLSI Journal, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- IEEE Design & Test, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
- IEEE MWSCAS, IEEE Access, Embedded Systems Letters
- Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier), Journal of Network and Computer Applications
- Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Neurocomputing