Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for receiving the 2023 EDAA Achievement Award, which is given to an individual each year who made outstanding contributions to state of the art in electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems in their life. Please see EDAA’s Press Release for more details. https://www.edaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/EDAA_Press_Release_Cong-Revised-v4_final.pdf
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The VAST lab is pleased to be part of the Center for Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory (PRISM) under the JUMP 2.0 program led by UC San Diego in collaboration from Professors Jason Cong and Yizhou Sun from UCLA. The UCLA research focuses on developing novel compilation and programming support for cloud-scale in-memory and in-storage acceleration in distributed and disaggregated settings, with the goal…
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Congratulations for receiving the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at ASP-DAC 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong and his former PhD students Guojie Luo and Bingjun Xiao and former postdoc Kelly Tsota for receiving the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award from the 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC’2023) for their work “Optimizing Routability in Large-Scale Mixed-Size Placement” presented at ASP-DAC’2013 in Yokohama, Japan…
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UCLA VAST Lab congratulates its former members Prof. Sung Kyu Lim and Prof. Zhiru Zhang for election to IEEE Fellows
Sung Kyu Limfor contributions to electronic design automation and tradeoff for 3-dimensional integrated circuits Zhiru Zhangfor contributions to field-programmable gate array high-level synthesis and accelerator design Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE selects a small group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for…
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Prof. Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at ICCAD’2022
Prof. Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech “Democratizing IC Designs and Customized Computing” at the 2022 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022 in San Diego, CA. His talk covered the decade-long effort of his group on enabling software programmers to design efficient customized accelerators. The full presentation is available at https://ucla.box.com/s/8yx0m0v1wtobn0io87jg4xh4sw0fculp YouTube link for Keynote Speech:…
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Prof. Jason Cong Delivered a Keynote Speech at MICRO’2022
Prof. Jason Cong delivered a keynote speech “Democratizing Customized Computing” at MICRO’22 on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 in Chicago. His talk covered the latest research on automated accelerator synthesis and customized computing on FPGAs, ranging from microarchitecture guided optimization, such as automated generation of highly optimized systolic arrays and stencil computation engines, to more general source-to-source transformation based on graph-based…
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VAST Lab at DAC 2022
During July 10th and 14th, Prof. Jason Cong and members of the UCLA VAST attended the DAC 2022 conference and participated in a wide range of activities, including presenting three research papers and a tutorial, moderating a panel on the future of EDA, co-organizing the Road4NN workshop, and presenting three four papers in the Ph.D….
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New NSF Award on Automating High Level Synthesis via Graph-Centric Deep Learning
The team led by Professors Jason Cong and Yizhou Sun from the CS Department were recently awarded $1.2M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project entitled “High Level Synthesis via Graph-Centric Deep Learning”. Domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) have shown to offer significant performance and energy efficiency over general-purpose CPUs to meet the ever increasing performance…
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Licheng Guo won the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from UCLA CS Department
Licheng Guo was selected as one of the four winners of the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Awards by the UCLA CS department. Licheng is currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof.Jason Cong. He received his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University. His research focuses on the co-optimization of high-level synthesis and physical design…
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Best Paper Award at FPGA 2022 and Two Inductions to the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame
Congratulations to VAST Lab members Licheng Guo and Prof. Cong, together with collaborators from AMD/Xilinx and Cornell, Ghent University for winning the Best Paper Award at the 2022 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Array for the paper “RapidStream: Parallel Physical Implementation of FPGA HLS Designs” by Licheng Guo, Pongstorn Maidee, Yun Zhou, Chris Lavin, Jie Wang, Yuze Chi,…
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