Awards include NSF CAREER award, IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award, Best Dissertation Award of Electrical and Computer Engineering from The George Washington University, Champion of GraphChallenge 2018 and 2019, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory SRP fellowship (2019 and 2021), One of the best papers in VLDB '20, Provost Early Career Award for Research Excellence 2022, ECE Impact Award (2025). Multiple papers accepted by top conferences such as SIGMOD '26, EMNLP '25 Oral, SC '25, ACL Findings '25, Eurosys'25, PPoPP '25, TPDS, SIGMETRICS'24, TACO.
Research Experience
Before joining Rutgers, he was a Presidential Fellow Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Currently leading the HPDA lab.
Education
Received a Ph.D. from The George Washington University in 2017 (advisor: Prof. H. Howie Huang) and a B.E. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011.
Background
Research interests include utilizing supercomputers to develop high-performance systems for large language models (inference/training), general machine learning, and big data mining. Currently an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Miscellany
Personal interests include mentoring students and is always looking for Ph.D. students with full scholarships.