Jiayi Huang (黄嘉逸)

 
 

Assistant Professor

Microelectronics Thrust

Function Hub, HKUST(GZ)


Rm 606, W1

1 Duxue Rd, Nansha District

Guangzhou, 510000, China


Email: hjy [at] hkust-gz.edu.cn

 

About me


I am an Assistant Professor in the Microelectronics Thrust at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Prior to joining HKUST(GZ), I was a Research Scientist at Computing Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy. I was a postdoc with the SEAL lab at UC Santa Barbara, supervised by Dr. Yuan Xie and Dr. Yufei Ding. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2020, where I was advised by Dr. EJ Kim, and my B.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2014.


My research interests lie in the fields of computer architecture and systems, with a special focus on data movement optimization for communication/data-centric and heterogeneous architecture, as well as the interplay of machine learning and system design.


I am committed to training the next-generation computer architects. I am seeking students who are passionate about defining new computer architectures to solve challenging computing problems. If you are interested, please email me with your CV and transcript (more info: EN, CN).



Publications [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [ORCID]


An Endeavor to Industrialize Hardware Fuzzing: Automating NoC Verification in UVM

Ruiyang Ma, Huatao Zhao, Jiayi Huang, Shijian Zhang, Guojie Luo

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), March 2024. (To Appear)


ArchExplorer: Microarchitecture Exploration via Bottleneck Analysis

Chen Bai, Jiayi Huang, Xuechao Wei, Yuzhe Ma, Sicheng Li, Hongzhong Zheng, Bei Yu, Yuan Xie

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October—November 2023.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [slides] [poster] [artifact]


WHISTLE: CPU Abstractions for Hardware and Software Memory Safety Invariants

Sungkeun Kim, Farabi Mahmud, Jiayi Huang, Pritam Majumder, Chia-Che Tsai, Abdullah Muzahid, EJ Kim

IEEE Tranactions on Computers, 72(3):811—825, March 2023.

[paper] [link] [bibtex]


MPU-Sim: A Simulator for In-DRAM Near-Bank Processing Architectures

Xinfeng Xie, Peng Gu, Jiayi Huang, Yufei Ding, Yuan Xie

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 21(1):1—4, January—June 2022.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [code]


RVDFI: A RISC-V Architecture with Security Enforcement by High Performance Complete Data-Flow Integrity

Lang Feng*, Jiayi Huang*, Luyi Li, Haochen Zhang, Zhongfeng Wang

IEEE Tranactions on Computers, 71(10):2499—2512, October 2022.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [code]


Toward Taming the Overhead Monster for Data-Flow Integrity

Lang Feng, Jiayi Huang, Jeff Huang, Jiang Hu

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 27(3):1—24, May 2022.

[paper] [link] [bibtex]


Prefender: Prefetching Defender against Cache Side Channel Attacks as A Pretender

Luyi Li, Jiayi Huang, Lang Feng, and Zhongfeng Wang

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), March 2022.

Best Paper Award Nominee

[paper] [link] [bibtex]


Communication Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Distributed Deep Learning

Jiayi Huang, Pritam Majumder, Sungkeun Kim, Abdullah Muzahid, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2021.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [slides] [lightning] [poster] [example]


A Voting Approach for Adaptive Network-on-Chip Power-Gating

Jiayi Huang, Shilpa Bhosekar, Rahul Boyapati, Ningyuan Wang, Byul Hur, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(11):1962—1975, 2021.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [code]


Remote Control: A Simple Deadlock Avoidance Scheme for Modular Systems-on-Chip

Pritam Majumder, Sungkeun Kim, Jiayi Huang, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(11):1928—1941, 2021.

[paper] [link] [bibtex]


Computing En-Route for Near-Data Processing

Jiayi Huang, Pritam Majumder, Sungkeun Kim, Troy Fulton, Ramprakash Reddy Puli, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(6):906—921, 2021.

[paper] [link] [bibtex] [code]


ReViCe: Reusing Victim Cache to Prevent Speculative Cache Leakage

Sungkeun Kim, Farabi Mahmud, Jiayi Huang, Pritam Majumder, Neophytos Christou, Abdullah Muzahid, Chia-Che Tsai, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE Security Development Conference (SecDev), September 2020.

[paper] [link] [slides] [bibtex]


Active-Routing: Compute on the Way for Near-Data Processing

Jiayi Huang, Ramprakash Reddy Puli, Pritam Majumder, Sungkeun Kim, Rahul Boyapati, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) , February 2019.

[paper] [link] [slides] [lightning] [bibtex] [code]


Approx-NoC: A Data Approximation Framework for Network-On-Chip Architectures

Rahul Boyapati, Jiayi Huang, Pritam Majumder, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) , July 2017.

[paper] [link] [slides] [lightning] [bibtex] [benchmarks]


Packet Coalescing Exploiting Data Redundancy in GPGPU Architectures

Kyung Hoon Kim, Rahul Boyapati, Jiayi Huang, Yuho Jin, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2017.

[paper] [link] [bibtex]


Fly-Over: A Light-Weight Distributed Power-Gating Mechanism for Energy-Efficient Networks-on-Chip

Rahul Boyapati*, Jiayi Huang*, Ningyuan Wang, Kyung Hoon Kim, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May-June 2017.

[paper] [link] [slides] [bibtex] [code]



Poster and Preprints


Coloring Big Graphs with AlphaGoZero

Jiayi Huang, Mostofa Patwary, Gregory Diamos

arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10162, 2019.

[preprint] [bibtex] [media]


Fly-Over: A Light-Weight Distributed Power-Gating Mechanism for Energy-Efficient Networks-on-Chip

Rahul Boyapati*, Jiayi Huang*, Ningyuan Wang, Kyung Hoon Kim, Ki Hwan Yum, and Eun Jung Kim

International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilatin Techniques (PACT), September 2016.

[paper] [poster] [bibtex]



Experiences


Computing Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Research Scientist, May 2022 — January 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Researcher, October 2021 — May 2022
Baidu Research - Silicon Valley AI Lab, Systems Research Intern, September 2018 — December 2018
   - Researched on reinforcement learning for combinatorial and systems optimization
   - Coloring big graphs with AlphaZero [arXiv] [media]
Tesla, Performance Engineer Intern, May 2018 — August 2018
   - Architected memory controller of Autopilot Hardware


Team

  • Le Qin (PhD student, Fall 2022 —)

  • Weilin Cai (PhD student, Fall 2023 —)

  • Yanhua Chen (PhD student, Fall 2023 —)

  • Jiong Feng (PhD student, Fall 2023 —)

  • Zexin Fu (MPhil student, Fall 2023 —)

  • Junwei Cui (Graduate Research Intern, August 2023 —)

  • Kunlin Li (Undergrad Research Intern, July 2023 —)


Teaching

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    MICS6000W Parallel Computer Architecture, Fall 2023
    MICS6000L Computer Architecture, Spring 2023

  • Texas A&M University, Teaching Assistant
    CSCE312 Computer Organization, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018
    CSCE350 Computer Architecture, Spring 2016
    CSCE611 Operating Systems and Applications, Spring 2019
    CSCE614 Graduate Computer Architecture, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017


Talks

  • Interconnect Specialization for Addressing Data Movement Inefficiencies
    Computing Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy, March 2022
    Michigan Technological University, March 2022
    University of Rochester, March 2022
    The College of William & Mary, March 2022
    George Mason University, Feburary 2022
    University of Rhode Island, Feburary 2022
    Washington State University, January 2022
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), January 2022

  • RVDFI: A RISC-V Based Data-Flow Integrity Enforcement System
    Computing Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Virtual, Feburary 2022

  • Communication Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Distributed Deep Learning
    @ ISCA-48, Virtual, June 2021 [slides]
    @ NSF Workshop on Machine Learning Hardware — Posters, Virtual, November 2020 [poster] [video]

  • Interconnect Specialization for Big Data and Machine Learning
    Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island, Virtual, June 2020

  • Active-Routing
    @ Xia Peisu Forum, ICT, CAS, Virtual, September 2020 [slides-chinese]
    @ ARM Research Summit, Austin, USA, September 2019 [slides]
    @ HPCA-25, Washington D.C., USA, February 2019 [slides]

  • Approx-NoC
    @ ISCA-44, Toronto, Canada, June 2017 [slides]

  • Fly-Over
    @ IPDPS, Orlando, USA, May 2017 [slides]
    @ PACT Poster Session, Haifa, Israel, September 2016 [poster]

    • Acknowledgements: Travel Grants from PACT'16, IPDPS'17, ISCA'17, HPCA'19, NSF and CSE@TAMU


Honors and Awards

  • DATE 2022 Best Paper Nomination

  • Dissertation Fellowship, Texas A&M University, Fall 2019 — Summer 2020

  • Second Prize in the Seventh Supcon Cup Robot Competition, Zhejiang University, May 2012 [robot]


Services

  • Program Committee: NAS 2021, ASAP 2021, ICCD 2021, ICCD 2022, DAC 2022, ICCD 2023, DAC 2023

  • Conference Session Chair: NAS 2021, ICCD 2021

  • External Reviewer: ICPP 2022

  • Subreviewer: HPCA 2021

  • Journal Reviewer:

    IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2016.

    IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2019 — 2023.

    ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2021, 2023.

    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Integrated Systems (TVLSI) , 2023.

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II) , 2023.

    IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2020 — 2022.

    IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) , 2022.

  • Co-Organizer of TAMU CSE System Seminar 2019 — 2020 (with Dilma Da Silva and Chia-Che Tsai)

  • Member of ACM (SIGARCH, SIGMICRO)

  • Member of IEEE Computer Society

  • Member of China Computer Federation (CCF)