People

I’m a fourth year PhD student, working under the co-advisement of Silvia Zhang and Chris Gill. My BS in Computer Engineering was received from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2017. I frequently contribute to the ROS2 codebase, and actively participate in the ROS2 real-time working group. My primary research concerns heterogeneous memory aware zero-copy, a tactic to minimize consumption of memory bandwidth in component-based applications running on heterogeneous hardware.

My research involves applying machine learning (ML) to the many facets of robotics, especially computer vision. I also like finding adversaries (security vulnerabilities) in existing ML pipelines, like in self driving vehicles. My current work is about improving the efficiency of ML in hardware. 

I am a fifth-year PhD student advised by Prof. Xuan Zhang.  My research focuses on optimizing the at-scale deep learning based personalized recommendation.

I joined Silvia Zhang’s lab in 2019 Fall. Before that, I graduated from Beihang University with B.E. in electrical engineering. I’m interested in CMOS image sensor design dedicated to machine learning and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. I like doing workout and eating donuts after workout (KK is my favorite besides homemade ones).

I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Professor Xuan (Silvia) Zhang and Professor Roger Chamberlain. My research areas include near-memory processing for a variety of applications, high-performance and energy-saving computing on heterogeneous systems, and hardware/software codesign. I graduated from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2015 and 2018 with B.E and M.S. respectively.

Huifeng received the M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical and System Engineering, Washington University in St.Louis (WUSTL), USA, in 2020, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. He received the B.Eng. degree from Beihang University (BUAA), China, in 2017. His current research interests include hardware security, system security, and power delivery systems of ICs. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at DATE 2019 and AsianHost 2020, and Best Paper Nomination at ASP-DAC 2021.