• DAC 2015
    DAC 2015

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
2020 Minyu Yan

PhD from Chinese Academy of Science (co-advised with Dongrui Fan)

Chinese Academy of Science, Assistant Professor
--- --- Ph.D. Alumni ---
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
B.S. in Tsinghua University, China, 2014
 

Meta
2022 Boyuan Feng Meta
2022 Liang Ling

B.S. - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2015)

M.S. - University of Southern California (2017)

2021 Abanti Basak

B.S.   Princeton University

Ampere
2021 Peng Gu

B.S. Tsinghua University

Google
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
--- --- Post-doc Alumni
2022 Fengbin Tu

Ph.D. Tsinghua University

HKUST
2020 Lei Deng

Ph.D. in Instrument Science and Technology from Tsinghua University (THU) in 2017
B. E. in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012

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

--- --- M.S. Alumni
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

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.
--- --- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
2017 Rachel Reyes

B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara

2016 Nicole Moghaddas

B.S.   University Of California, Santa Barbara

2016 Chunqing Liu

B.S.  University of California, Santa Barbara

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

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