Awards
- NSF CAREER Award, 2024
- Amazon Research Award, 2024
- CISCO Research Award, 2024
- 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 Design Automation & Testing Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2018 and 2021
- USDA-NIFA HATCH Award, 2020
- Design Automation Conference (DAC) Travel Grant, 2019
- International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Travel Grant, 2018
- Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2018
- Best Poster Finalist, Numan Research Day, Syracuse University, 2017
- Received National Scholarship by Chinese Ministry of Education, November 2008. *Given to the person ranked 1st out of 300+ students
- Baosteel Academic Scholarship in Chinese Universities, November 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.
- 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, ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2020
Conference Program Committee
- North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2021
- IJCAI 2021
- AAAI 2021
- International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2021
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020
- ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and the travel grant committee, 2020, 2021
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020, 2021
- ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020
- IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2020
- DAC Late Breaking Results (DAC-LBR), 2020.
- IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2020
- IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020
Reviewer
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS),
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC),
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO),
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II),
- ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
- IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2020,
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI),
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018, 2019
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS),
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
- Integration, the VLSI Journal,
- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 2019,
- IEEE Design & Test,
- The 29th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2019,
- IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS), 2017, 2019,
- IEEE Access,
- Embedded Systems Letters,
- Digital Signal Processing – Journal – Elsevier,
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications,
- Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems,
- Neurocomputing,