Shaojie Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis!

During his time at Cornell, Shaojie authored numerous influential papers across top venues including PLDI, ASPLOS, DAC, FPGA, FCCM, and TRETS. His research spanned a wide range of topics—from programming models for FPGAs and composable accelerators to optimizing system-level performance for LLM inference and cloud microservices. Notably, his work on HeteroFlow and Allo introduced new abstractions for accelerator design, while contributions like Dagger and LAMDA advanced the state of the art in system architecture and FPGA autotuning. Shaojie will join Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he will continue to push the boundaries of accelerator programming and system optimizations.

Shaojie’s scholarly excellence, collaborative spirit, and impact-driven research leave a strong legacy. We can’t wait to see what he does next — congrats, Dr. Xiang!