Prof. Zhiru Zhang
Principle Investigator
office: 320 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
email: zhiruz -at- cornell.edu
Currently, Hanchen is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, supervised by Professor Zhiru Zhang, started from Spring 2018. He received his M.Eng. degree from Cornell in 2016, majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before that, he got his bachelor degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2015, majored in Electrical Engineering.
Chenhui is a PhD student in Computer Systems Laboratory at Cornell University and work with Prof. Zhiru Zhang. His research interests focus on EDA algorithm optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Shaojie is a Ph.D. student in Computer Systems Lab, Cornell University working with Prof. Zhiru Zhang. His research interests focus on electronics design automation and high-performance computing. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Jordan Dotzel
MS/PhD, started FA'19, co-advised by Prof. Abdelfattah
email: jad443 -at- cornell.edu
Jordan is a PhD student at the CSL, who completed his B.A. in Computer Science at Cornell in 2017. He spent a year as a software engineer in Boston building third-party integrations before returning to Cornell. His recent research focuses on efficient machine learning architectures and data-free quantization techniques. Currently, he explores algorithm-hardware co-design and efficient object detection models.
Jie is a PhD student in Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) at Cornell University under the supervision of Prof. Zhiru Zhang. She received her bachelor's degree in Microelectronic Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Her research interests lie generally in the field of computer architecture and electronic design automation, including but not limited to domain-specific computing, machine learning and reconfigurable architectures.
Nikita Lazarev
MS/PhD, started FA'19, co-advised by Prof. Christina Delimitrou
email: nl524 -at- cornell.edu
Nikita is a PhD student in Computer Systems laboratory (CSL) at Cornell under the co-supervision of Zhiru Zhang and Christina Delimitrou. His main research interests lie in the intersection of computer systems and hardware with the main focus on improving cloud infrastructures with reconfigurable computing. He received his Master degree in Computer Science from EPFL and his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Robotics from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). During his Master's, he interned at Microsoft Research India (under the supervision of Dr. Vivek Seshadri) and Microsoft Research Cambridge (under the supervision of Dr. Aleksandar Dragojevic).
Yixiao is an MS/PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working in Computer Systems Lab under supervision of Prof. Zhiru Zhang. He received his bachelor's degree at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His current research focuses on acceleration of sparse applications on FPGAs. Yixiao is also interested in high-level synthesis and design automation.
Zichao Yue
MS/PhD, started SU'20
email: zy383 -at- cornell.edu
Zichao is currently a MS/PhD student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, under supervision of Professor Zhiru Zhang. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University. Before joining Cornell, he had worked in industry for years as a logic design engineer in several FPGA and ASIC design projects. His research interests lie in the field of computer architecture, especially heterogeneous accelerator design, process in memory and machine learning.
Yaohui is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, advised by Zhiru Zhang, starting from Spring 2021. He received his BS degree in from Peking University. Currently, his research interests mainly focus on improving the efficiency of machine learning models.
Niansong Zhang is currently an M.S. student in the Computer System Lab, advised by Professor Zhiru Zhang. He received his B.E. from Sun Yat-sen University in 2020. His research interests include heterogeneous compilation, domain-specific language for hardware design, and FPGA placement and routing.
Jiajie is a Ph.D. student in Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) at Cornell University under the supervision of Prof. Zhiru Zhang. He received his bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. Currently, his research interests lie within systems and hardware optimization for machine learning tasks with the main focus on graph learning applications.
Andrew is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Systems Lab at Cornell, advised by Professor Zhiru Zhang. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2021. His current research interests are in high-level synthesis and FPGA place-and-route tools.
Hongzheng is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Cornell University, supervised by Prof. Zhiru Zhang. He received his B.E. degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University in 2021. His research interests include heterogeneous computing, domain-specific compilers, and computer systems for big data and machine learning.
Matthew is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Cornell, advised by Prof. Zhiru Zhang. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2022. His research interests are centered around design automation for FPGAs. This includes high-level synthesis, reconfigurable overlays, FPGA virtualization, as well as other aspects of FPGA CAD flows.
Zhanqiu Hu
MS/PhD, started FA'23, co-advised by Prof. Udit Gupta
email: zh338 -at- cornell.edu
Zhanqiu is a PhD student in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Cornell University. She received her B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2023. Her research interests lie generally in the field of computer systems and computer architecture. Currently, she is working on end-to-end recommendation systems.
Alumni
Dingyi Dai
MS, 2021-2023
Zhongyuan Zhao
PostDoc, 2020-2023
Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.
Gai Liu
PhD, 2013-2018
Now with TikTok, Mountain View, CA.
Qiang You
Visiting PhD, Tsinghua Univ., 2018.
Now with Now at Sinovation Ventures AI Institute, Beijing, China.
Chang Xu
Visiting PhD, Peking Univ., 2015-2016.
Now with IBM Research, Beijing, China.
Mingxing Tan
