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×