Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong and his co-authors, Chen Zhang, Zhenman Fang, Peipei Zhou, Peichen Pan for receiving the ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the paper titled “Caffeine:…
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Prof. Jason Cong gave a keynote speech and the ACM Breakthrough Lecture at KDD’2025 on August 5, 2025 in Toronto, Canada.  His talk, titled “Deep Learning Meets Chip Design: Driving…
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Prof. Jason Cong delivered his keynote speech entitled “Democratize Chip Design” at the 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) on June 25, 2025.  Cong presented a grand vision of enabling…
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Zijian Ding is a second year PhD student whose research focuses on advancing AI/ML for hardware design, including software-to-HLS transformation, foundation models for performance prediction, and efficient design optimization. The…
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Congratulations to Zifan He for receiving the annual AMD Heterogeneous Accelerated Computing award.  He is a second year PhD student working on  algorithm-hardware co-design to enable efficient and high-quality inference…
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Wan-Hsuan Lin’s research focuses on building scalable tools and algorithms that translate quantum programs into instructions executable on real quantum hardware. With 7 publications in top design automation venues, she…
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Prof. Jason Cong received the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service “for impactful research and entrepreneurial work on electronic design automation, quantum and customized computing, FPGA,…
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ACM announcement states that they have named Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, as the recipient of the 2024 ACM…
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Congratulations to Prof. Cong for his paper titled “Optimizing FPGA-based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” published at the 23rd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’15) and co-authored…
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Prof. Cong delivered a keynote speech entitled “Compilation and Architecture Optimization for Quantum Computing” at the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025) on January 22, 2025, Tokyo, Japan. ASP-DAC…
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