Faculty
Principal Investigator

Yuan Xie was the founder of the SEAL lab. He received B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University. He was with IBM Microelectronics Division's Worldwide Design Center, Pennsylvania State University, AMD Research, and UCSB. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of AAAS, and a recipient of NSF CAREER Award and IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award in 2020.

Yufei Ding joined the Department of Computer Science (with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering), University of California at Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in Nov 2017. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and B.S. and M.S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China and the College of William and Mary, respectively. Her research interests lie in the broad fields of domain-specific language design, architecture and compiler optimization, and hardware acceleration. Her current research focuses on building high- performance, energy-efficient, and high-fidelity programming frameworks for emerging technologies such as quantum computing, machine learning, and deep learning.
Current members
Doctoral Students

Wenqin Huangfu received his B.S. degree from Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, in 2016. He started pursuing his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, under the supervision of Professor Yuan Xie in fall 2016. Wenqin’s research interests include hardware acceleration, non – volatile memory, novel computer architecture and design of energy efficient system.

Nan Wu is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Xie. She received her B.S. degree in 2016 from Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. degree in 2018 from UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include: (1) machine learning for computer architecture and systems, (2) deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms and applications.

Gushu Li is currently a Ph.D student at University of California, Santa Barbara since Fall 2017 supervised by Prof. Yuan Xie. He received B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2015 and was a Ph.D student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago from 2015 to 2017.
His research interests are (1) quantum computing architecture and (2) processing-in-memory for emerging techniques.
Personal Website: sites.google.com/view/gushuli

Since 2017, Bangyan Wang works in SEAL lab as a PhD student, advised by Prof. Yuan Xie. His current research area is architecture design for tensor process, especially for sparse tensor, low rank tensor analysis.

Zheng Qu is currently a Ph.D. student working with Professor Yuan Xie in the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. degree in 2018 from Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Zheng’s research mainly focuses on (1) Energy efficient computing architecture and acceleration for machine learning applications, (2) Tensor application and hardware acceleration.

Jilan Lin is currently pursuing his Ph.D student at UCSB starting from Fall 2018. He received the B.E. degree in Dept. of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include: (1) Application-driven in-memory processing (2) Machine learning algorithms and related hardware acceleration.

My name is Yuke Wang, a third-year Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), advised by Prof. Yufei Ding. Before I come to UCSB, I got my B.E. in software engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
At UCSB, I have been working on projects in software-hardware co-design for distance-related algorithms, such as KNN, KMeans. I am also interested in deep learning, especially graph neural network (GNN) optimization and acceleration on heterogeneous platforms, such as GPUs.

Zhaodong Chen (in Chinese: 陈昭东) is a Ph.D. student at Scalable Energy-Efficient Architecture Lab (SEAL) at University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests lie in the intersection between Deep Learning and Computer Architecture.

Pengfei Xu is a Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Barbara under the supervision of Professor Yuan Xie and Professor Yufei Ding. He received his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interest includes deep learning, computer architecture, and brain-computer interface.

Guyue is a Ph.D. student at ECE Department, UCSB, supervised by Prof. Yuan Xie and Prof. Yufei Ding. Previously, she received her B.E. from Tsinghua University in 2020. She was an exchange student at CS Dept., EPFL, in Spring 2019, and a visiting student at Cornell in Summer 2019. Her research interest is computer architecture.

Anbang Wu is a first-year Ph.D. student in the computer science department with a specialization in quantum computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Anbang received both his Master of Engineering degree and Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in China. He is interested in developing quantum computing algorithms and software that squeeze all the computational power out of near-term quantum computers. More specifically, his work examines how to compile quantum programs into efficient and noise-resilient hardware control instructions on specific quantum devices. Recently, he has become interested in quantum machine learning which can describe atypical data patterns that classical machine learning cannot.

Hao joined the SEAL lab of UCSB in September 2022 as a Ph.D. student, advised by Dr. Yuan Xie and Dr. Yufei Ding. He received his B.S. degree from Beihang University in 2019, and M.S. degree from Texas A&M in 2022. He is interested in computer architecture and systems.

Siqi Li is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, supervised by Professor Yuan Xie and Professor Yufei Ding. His research interests include computer architecture and digital VLSI design.

Zhaohui Yang is a first-year Ph.D. student at Dept. CS, starting from September 2022. His research interests focus on quantum computer system design and fault-tolerant quantum computing, to bridge the gap between algorithms and bottom-layer physical devices. Previously, he received his M.S. degree from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China

Keyi Yin is a first year Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara, supervised by Prof. Yufei Ding. He received his B.S. degree in 2018 from University of Science and Technology of China. Keyi’s current research area is quantum computation.

Zhengyang Wang is a Ph.D. student at CS Department, UCSB under the supervision of Professor Yufei Ding and Professor Yuan Xie. He received his B.E. from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include hardware acceleration and novel computer architecture.
Alumni
Year | Name | Education | Location |
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2020 | Minyu Yan |
PhD from Chinese Academy of Science (co-advised with Dongrui Fan) |
Chinese Academy of Science, Assistant Professor |
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2022 | Liu Liu |
B.S. University of Electronic Science and Technology, China M.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
2022 | Xinfeng Xie |
B.S. Peking University |
Meta |
2022 | Tianqi Tang |
M.S in Tsinghua University, China, 2017 |
Meta |
2022 | Boyuan Feng | Meta | |
2022 | Liang Ling |
B.S. - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2015) M.S. - University of Southern California (2017) |
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2021 | Abanti Basak |
B.S. Princeton University |
Ampere |
2021 | Peng Gu |
B.S. Tsinghua University |
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2020 | Dylan Stow |
PhD/M.S. in ECE from UCSB, B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College |
AMD |
2020 | Itir Akgun |
PhD in ECE from UCSB, B.S. from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Qualcomm |
2020 | Maohua Zhu |
PhD in ECE from UCSB, B.S./M.S. from Tsinghua University |
Start-up |
2018 | Kaisheng Ma |
PhD in CSE from Penn State(co-advised with Narayanan/Sampson), BS from Peking University |
Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University |
2017 | Shuangchen Li |
Ph.D. UCSB / M.S./B.S. in Tsinghua University |
Alibaba DAMO Lab |
2016 | Hsiang-Yun Cheng |
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University; B.S./M.S. National Taiwan University |
Assistant Professor at Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
2016 | Ping Chi |
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Architect at Intel Corporation |
2016 | Jia Zhan |
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Software Engineer at Uber |
2015 | Qiaosha Zou |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
Now Assistant Professor at Fudan University |
2015 | Jing Xie |
Ph.D. Penn State University; M.S. North Carolina State University; B.S. Peking University |
GPU Staff Engineer at Qualcomm |
2015 | Matt Poremba |
Ph.D. / B.S. Penn State University |
Researcher at AMD |
2014 | Cong Xu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Peking University |
Senior Researcher at HP Lab |
2014 | Jue Wang |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Software Engineer at Google |
2014 | Jishen Zhao |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Zhejiang University |
Associate Professor at UCSD |
2014 | Tao Zhang |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Peking University |
Architect at Alibaba T-head |
2013 | Dimin Niu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Researcher at Alibaba DAMO Academy |
2012 | Jin Ouyang |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Peking University |
GPU Architect at AMD |
2011 | Yibo Chen |
Ph.D. Penn State University; BS/MS Tsinghua University |
Engineering Manager at Google |
2011 | Guangyu Sun |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Associate Professor at Peking University |
2011 | Xiangyu Dong |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Shanghai Jiaotong University |
Staff SWE at Google |
2010 | Mike Debole |
Ph.D. Penn State Univiersity (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan); B.S. Penn State University |
Researcher at IBM |
2010 | Soumya Eachempati |
Ph.D. Penn State (co-advised with Vijaykrishnan); B.S. Indian Institute of Technology |
Performance Architect for Server Platform at Intel |
2010 | Prasanth Mangalagiri |
Ph.D. Penn State (co-advised with N.Vijaykrishnan); B.S./M.S. Indian Institute of Technology |
Senior Staff Engineer at Intel |
2010 | Xiaoxia Wu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Staff Engineer at Synopsys |
2009 | Balaji Vaidyanathan |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. University of Madras |
Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Lab |
2008 | Feng Wang |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Fudan University |
GPU Performance Architect at Intel |
2007 | Yu Wang |
Ph.D. Tsinghua University (co-advised with Huazhong Yang) |
Department Chair of EE at Tsinghua University |
2006 | Wei-Lun Hung |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. National Tsinghua University |
Software Engineer at Goldmen Saches |
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2022 | Fengbin Tu |
Ph.D. Tsinghua University |
HKUST |
2020 | Lei Deng |
Ph.D. in Instrument Science and Technology from Tsinghua University (THU) in 2017 |
Tsinghua University |
2022 | Jiayi Huang |
Ph.D. TAMU B.E. Zhejiang University |
Alibaba |
2020 | Weitao Li |
PhD from Tsinghua University |
Tsinghua University |
2019 | Xin Ma |
Ph.D.(2014) The College of William and Mary / B.S.(2009) USTC |
Software Engineer at Google |
2019 | Xing Hu |
PhD from Chinese Academy of Science, B.S.from HuaZhong University of Science and Technology |
Chinese Academy of Science |
2010 | Yongsoo Joo |
Post-doc Penn State University; Ph.D. Seoul National University |
Associate Professor at Kookmin University |
2010 | Lian Duan |
Post-doc Penn State Uniersity; Ph.D. Peking University |
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2019 | Yang Zhao |
B.S/M.S. Fudan University |
Rice University |
2017 | Russell Barnes |
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering 2015, Oregon State University |
Now at Qualcomm |
2017 | Linuo Xue |
B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Now at Synopsys |
2016 | Ziyang Qi |
M.S. University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S. Tsinghua University |
Now at Yahoo |
2015 | Ivan Stalev |
M.S./B.S Penn State University |
Now at VSCO |
2015 | Yang Zheng |
M.S. Penn State University; B.S. Peking University |
Now at Google |
2011 | Angeline Brown |
M.S. Penn State University; B.S. Jackson State University |
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2008 | Paul Falkenstern |
M.S. Penn State University |
Now at Lockheed Martin |
2007 | Charles Addo-Quaye |
M.S. Penn State University (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
Now at Purdue |
2007 | Han-wei Chen |
M.S. Penn State University (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
Now at Intellectual Property Attorney |
2007 | Melvin Eze |
M.S. Penn State Univerisity (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan) |
Now at Penn State |
2006 | Yinkun Xue |
M.S. Penn State University |
Now at Siemens Inc. |
2005 | Tom Richardson |
M.S. Penn State University |
Now at Availink Inc. |
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2017 | Rachel Reyes |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2016 | Nicole Moghaddas |
B.S. University Of California, Santa Barbara |
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2016 | Chunqing Liu |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2016 | Zhansaya Abdikarimova |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
Now at Amazon |
2016 | Jiayi Jiang |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
Now at UCLA |
2015 | Matthew Ruth |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2015 | Hsuan Cheng |
REU student, B.S. UCSB |
Now at CMU |
2015 | Zhiwang Zhang |
REU student; B.S. Penn State Univeristy |
Columbia University |
2009 | Deanna Chnarrs |
REU student, B.S. Penn State University |
Now at Lockheed Martin |
2008 | Benjamin Hvostal |
REU student, B.S. Penn State University |
Now at Intel |