About Me

I am an assistant professor at the Microelectronics Thrust, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Before joining HKUST(GZ), I was a Research Scientist at the Computing Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy. I was a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, working with Prof. Yuan Xie and Prof. Yufei Ding. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, where I worked with Prof. EJ Kim, and my B.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering from Zhejiang University.

My research interests lie in the fields of computer architecture and systems, with a particular focus on data movement optimization and machine learning systems.

Prospective Students: I am always looking for highly-motivated and talented students to solve challenging computing problems. If you are interested, please check the Prospective Students page.

Research Impact and Recognition

• Intel 2025 Outstanding Researcher Award, Intel, May 2026

• Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), April 2026

• Best Poster Award, IEEE Chiplet Workshop: Standard, Circuits and Systems, October 2025

• Impact: ScMoE adopted in Meituan’s LongCat LLMs, September 2025.

• Distinguished Artifact Award, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2025

• Best Paper Nomination, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), March 2022

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

Professional Experience

• 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

Professional Service

• Editorial Board:

  Associate Editor, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), since September 2026.

• Organizing Committee:

  Special Session Co-Chair, ICCD, 2026.
  Publicity Co-Chair, ISPASS, 2026.

• Program Committee: ICLR (2027), MLSys (2027), HPCA (2026–2027), ISCA (2025–2026), MICRO (2025–2026), IISWC (2026), DAC (2022–2023, 2025–2026), ASP-DAC (2027), ICCD (2021–2026), APPT (2026), NAS (2021), ASAP (2021).

• Conference Session Chair: NAS 2021, ICCD 2021, MICRO 2025

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE CAL, IEEE TC, ACM TACO, IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE TCAD, IEEE JETCAS.

See the Professional Service page for full details.