Welcome to XZ Group at Washington University in St. Louis! We work at the intersection of IC design/VLSI, computer architecture, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
[Update] As of January 2024, XZ Group will be moving to Northeastern University in Boston, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering.
LATEST NEWS:
Prof. Zhang and the PiCar team featured on HEC-TV (3/8/2018)
The bio-inspired low-cost autonomous robotic platform, also known as PiCar, is featured on HEC-TV. The platform is developed by a team of five Washington University students under the guidance of Prof. Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang and Prof. Humberto Gonzalez. In the interview, Prof. Zhang and the PiCar team introduced their motivation and the technology used in […]
Two papers accepted by DAC 2018 (02/20/2018)
An’s paper titled “Efficient and Reliable Power Delivery in Voltage-Stacked Manycore System with Hybrid Charge-Recycling Regulators” and Yunfei’s paper titled “SRAM Based Opportunistic Energy Efficiency Improvement in Dual-Supply Near-Threshold Processors” are accepted by Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2018. ACM, 2018
Talk at CSE 591 Seminar (11/01/2017)
Prof. Zhang gives talk “Achieve End-to-End Energy Efficiency in Autonomous Robotics” at CSE591 Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, November 1st, 2017, St. Louis, USA.
Prof. Zhang received grants from NSF (09/15/2017)
Prof. Xuan Zhang (PI) and Prof. Christopher Gill (co-PI), received $936,504 grants from National Science Foundation to work on “CPS: Medium: Modular Power Orchestration at the Meso-scale”, starting from 09/15/2017. Prof. Zhang and Prof. Gill are featured on the SEAS news where they talked about their research vision.
Prof. Zhang’s article is featured on VentureBeat (9/5/2017)
Prof. Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang wrote a guest column for VentureBeat on how “Insects are revealing how AI can work in society”