Deming Chen
Scholar

Deming Chen

Google Scholar ID: A_A_LrsAAAAJ
Abel Bliss Professor. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
High-level SynthesisHybrid CloudFPGAsMachine LearningHardware Security
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,766
 
H-index
47
 
i10-index
148
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
103
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published over 300 journal/conference papers and book chapters
  • Served as PI/Co-PI on more than 50 research grants from U.S. federal agencies and industry
  • Recipient of ten Best Paper Awards
  • ACM/SIGDA TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame Paper Award
  • Numerous research, design competition, and service awards
  • Elevated to IEEE Fellow
  • Editor-in-Chief of ACM TRETS
  • Open-source tools widely adopted; ScaleHLS & HIDA have >60k views and ~4k downloads
Research Experience
  • Joined the ECE Department at UIUC in 2005; promoted to Full Professor in 2015
  • Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Affiliate Professor in the CS Department
  • Seconded faculty member at the Illinois Advanced Digital Science Center (ARCS, formerly ADSC) in Singapore since March 2010
  • Led the FCUDA open-source project (2008–2016), enabling CUDA-to-FPGA compilation years ahead of commercial OpenCL-to-FPGA flows
  • Developed influential open-source frameworks: RIP (fast SoC modeling and partitioning), Cloud-DNN (DNN inference acceleration on cloud FPGAs), DNNBuilder (state-of-the-art DNN FPGA implementations for edge/cloud), SkyNet (DAC 2019 double-champion DNN model via co-design), and ScaleHLS + HIDA (next-gen HLS flows compiling PyTorch directly to AI accelerators)
  • Medusa project integrated into NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, accelerating LLM token generation by 1.9–3.6×