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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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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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 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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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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Prof. Jason Cong gave the Vision Address at the 35th International Conference on VLSI Design entitled “Democratize IC Designs and Customized Computing” on February 28, 2022 (PST). https://vlsid.org YouTube link for the talk: https://youtu.be/-XuMWvGUocI

Congratulations to Prof Jason Cong for receiving the 2022 IEEE Robert N Noyce Medal For fundamental contributions to electronic design automation and FPGA design methods The IEEE Robert N Noyce Medal is a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the microelectronics industry The medal is named in honour of Robert N…
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Prof. Cong gave a keynote speech entitled “Layout Synthesis for Quantum Computing: Gap Analysis and Optimal Solution” at the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) on Thursday, July 8, 2021. YouTube Link for the talk: Link to ISVLSI Keynote speakers: http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/isvlsi21/keynotes.html

Prof. Cong gave a keynote speech entitled From Parallelization to Customization – Challenges and Opportunities at the 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) on Thursday, May 20, 2021. About IPDPS  IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects…
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Jie Wang was selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Awards by UCLA CS department.  Jie is currently a sixth-year PhD student under the supervision of Prof.Jason Cong. He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on compilation support and architecture exploration of systolic array architectures. In…
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