Faculty
Principal Investigator
Prof. Yuan Xie joined UCSB in Fall 2014 after 11 years with Penn State University (2003-2014). He received B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University. Prior to joining Penn State in 2003, he worked as an Advisory Engineer for IBM Microelectronics Division's Worldwide Design Center. He was also on-leave in 2012-13 to work with AMD Research. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of AAAS.
Current members
Post-Doctoral Researchers
I’m a postdoc in SEALab, Dept. of ECE, UCSB since Jan. 2017. I received my B.S. degree in HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). My research interests include in-memory-computing architectures for specific-domain applications. Previously, I also worked on energy/reliability management and 3D stacking techniques.
Lei Deng received his B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is currently a Postdoc working with Professor Yuan Xie at Scalable Energy-Efficient Architecture Lab (SEAL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. His research interests include computer architecture, machine learning, brain-inspired computing, tensor analysis, and complex networks.
Doctoral Students
After completing my bachelor’s degree as a computer engineer in the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014, I joined the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Ph.D student under Professor Yuan Xie. My research interests include computer architecture, memory system architecture, and emerging memory technologies.
Peng Gu received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. Peng’s research interests include near-data processing / process-in-memory architecture, memory sub-system, and domain-specific accelerator design.
Dylan Stow started at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Fall 2015 as a PhD student working with Professor Yuan Xie. Dylan received his M.S in Computer Architecture and VLSI/CAD from UCSB in 2017 and his B.S. degree from Harvey Mudd College in 2013. After graduating, he joined AMD as a physical circuit designer and contributed to the floating-point hardware in the recently-released Zen core.
His current research interests are (1) Architecture and design for emerging die-integration methodologies (e.g. 3D, 2.5D, FOWLP) with a focus on cost-driven design, IP reuse, and heterogeneous process integration, (2) hardware security, with an emphasis on hardware
techniques to prevent side-channel information leakage and IP piracy, and (3) efficient brain-inspired hardware that leverages emerging NVM and packaging technologies. Previously, he researched 3D machine learning accelerators for Qualcomm, floating point microarchitectures for Intel and Oracle Labs, and near-threshold CMOS cell design for yield-driven ultra-low power circuits.
Maohua Zhu is now a PhD candidate in ECE Department of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received both M.S and B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2011 and 2007. After graduation from Tsinghua University, he joined AMD Research Beijing as a research engineer. In June 2015, he started the doctoral program in UCSB supervised by Prof. Yuan Xie. Maohua used to work for AMD and Microsoft Research Asia as an intern during his master program in Tsinghua University. His research interest is hardware acceleration of machine learning algorithms.
Liu Liu is currently a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Professor Yuan Xie. After received his Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), he joined the Department of Computer Science in 2016. Before his graduate study at UCSB, he received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2013. His research interests include heterogeneous computer architecture, emerging non-volatile memory system design, hardware acceleration, and hardware security.
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.
Abanti Basak received her B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in May 2016. She started as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB under the supervision of Professor Yuan Xie in fall 2016. Her research interests include novel computer architecture and the design of energy efficient systems.
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.
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
Xinfeng Xie started the journey of pursuing his Ph.D. degree from Fall 2017 working with Prof. Yuan Xie in the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received his B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China in June 2017 prior to joining UCSB. His current research interests include domain-specific architecture designs for emerging applications and programming language supports for these architectures.
Tianqi Tang received her B.S. degree in 2014 and her M.S. degree in 2017 from Department of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and she is currently a Ph.D. student in UCSB under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Xie. Ms. Tang’s research mainly focuses on (1) Hardware Modeling and Domain Specific Accelerator Design (Project Site: http://mlpat.org/), (2) Processing-In-Memory and Non Volatile Memory. Before joining UCSB, she worked on neural network compression and quantization as an intern in Deephi (a start-up company now acquired by Xilinx) during her master program.
Yang Zhao received both M.S. and B.S. degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from Fudan University in 2015 and 2012. After graduating, she worked as a digital circuit design engineer. She started as a Ph.D. student in the Dept. of ECE at UCSB under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Xie in fall 2017. Her research interests include computer architecture, interconnection network, and emerging memory technologies.
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.
Ling Liang received his B.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2015, and his M.S. degree from University of Southern California in 2017. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. Ling’s research interests include tensor computing, neural network security and spiking neural networks.
Alumni
| Year | Name | Education | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shuangchen Li |
Ph.D. UCSB / M.S./B.S. in Tsinghua University |
Alibaba DAMO Lab | |
| 2017 | Rachel Reyes |
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara |
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| 2019 | Xin Ma |
Ph.D.(2014) The College of William and Mary / B.S.(2009) University of Science and Technology of China |
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| --- --- | Ph.D. Alumni | --- | |
| 2016 | Hsiang-Yun Cheng |
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University; B.S./M.S. National Taiwan University |
Now at Taiwan Central Research Academy |
| 2016 | Ping Chi |
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Now at Intel Corporation |
| 2016 | Jia Zhan |
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara; B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Now at Uber |
| 2016 | Chao Zhang |
M.S./Ph.D. Peking University; B.S. Peking University |
Amazon |
| 2015 | Qiaosha Zou |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
Now Assistant Professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University |
| 2015 | Jing Xie |
Ph.D. Penn State University; M.S. North Carolina State University; B.S. Peking University |
Now at Qualcomm |
| 2015 | Matt Poremba |
Ph.D. / B.S. Penn State University |
Now at AMD |
| 2014 | Cong Xu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Peking University |
Now at HP Lab |
| 2014 | Jue Wang |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Now at Google |
| 2014 | Jishen Zhao |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Zhejiang University |
Now Assistant Professor at University of California, San Diego |
| 2014 | Tao Zhang |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Peking University |
Now at Nvidia |
| 2013 | Dimin Niu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Now at Samsung |
| 2012 | Jin Ouyang |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Peking University |
Now at Nvidia |
| 2011 | Yibo Chen |
Ph.D. Penn State University; BS/MS Tsinghua University |
Now at Google |
| 2011 | Guangyu Sun |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Now Assistant Professor at Peking University, China |
| 2011 | Xiangyu Dong |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. Shanghai Jiaotong University |
Now at Google |
| 2010 | Mike Debole |
Ph.D. Penn State Univiersity (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan); B.S. Penn State University |
Now at IBM |
| 2010 | Soumya Eachempati |
Ph.D. Penn State University (co-advised with N. Vijaykrishnan); B.S. Indian Institute of Technology |
Now at Intel |
| 2010 | Prasanth Mangalagiri |
Ph.D. Penn State University (co-advised with N.Vijaykrishnan); B.S./M.S. Indian Institute of Technology |
Now at Intel |
| 2010 | Xiaoxia Wu |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. Tsinghua University |
Now at Oracle |
| 2009 | Balaji Vaidyanathan |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S. University of Madras |
Now at Micron |
| 2008 | Feng Wang |
Ph.D. Penn State University, B.S./M.S. Fudan University |
Now at Qualcomm |
| 2007 | Yu Wang |
Ph.D. Tsinghua University (co-advised with Huazhong Yang) |
Now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University |
| 2006 | Wei-Lun Hung |
Ph.D. Penn State University; B.S./M.S. National Tsinghua University |
Now at Microsoft |
| --- --- | Post-doc Alumni | ||
| 2010 | Yongsoo Joo |
Post-doc Penn State University; Ph.D. Seoul National University |
Now Assistant Professor at Kookmin University |
| 2010 | Lian Duan |
Post-doc Penn State Uniersity; Ph.D. Peking University |
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| --- --- | M.S. Alumni | ||
| 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. |
| --- --- | Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | ||
| 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 |