I am an Associate Professor and Y. T. Lo Faculty Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an affiliated Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I lead the Systems Platform and Intelligence Lab (Illinois PlatformX). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in August 2017. My Ph.D. dissertation received the College of Computing Dissertation Award at Georgia Tech.
Most recently, I am super excited to build sustainable AI infrastructures and platforms with computer architecture and system techniques to accelerate AI-driven knowledge retrieval, discovery, and generation. Our recent research received MICRO Best Paper Runner Up in 2024, IEEE Micro Top Picks and MICRO Best Artifact Award in 2025. We also organized the Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra'23 and HotInfra'24).
I have also been working on memory and storage systems, with a focus on their access Interface, architecture Specialization, and development Approaches (the ISA of memory and storage systems). My research received the inaugural ACM SIGMICRO Early Career Award, NSF CAREER Award, NSF CRII Award, Dean's Award for Early Innovation, IEEE Micro Top Picks, USENIX Best Paper Award, and a few industry awards. Some of them have been transferred into products and featured by popular media agencies.