Xilinx Teams with Leading Universities Around the World to Establish Adaptive Compute Research Clusters to spearhead novel research into all areas of adaptive compute acceleration. The cluster at UCLA will focus on energy-efficient computing, customized computing for big-data applications and highly scalable algorithms. Prof. Jason Cong, Director for the Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing at…
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Zhe was selected as one of eight recipients of the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. This award was established in 1998 to recognize the important contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to UCLA’s research mission. Zhe devotes his postdoctoral research efforts to using customizable computing to advance the real-time closed-loop neurofeedback for the brain-machine interface,…
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Prof Jason Cong gave a keynote speech entitled “Design Automation for Customizable Computing” at ASP-DAC’2020 on Jan 20 2020 in Beijing China.  ASP-DAC 2020 is the 25th annual international conference on VLSI design automation in Asia and South Pacific region one of the most active regions of design and fabrication of silicon chips in the…
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Computer Science Professor Jason Cong, together with his co-authors Zhenyuan Ruan (former student, now at MIT), and Tong He (former student, now at Google), have received the 2019 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award for their paper “Analyzing and Modeling In-Storage Computing Workloads On EISC — An FPGA-Based System-Level Emulation Platform” published in…
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Jason Cong, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has won the 2019 University Research Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association, in collaboration with the Semiconductor Research Corporation. For more information, please visit http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/computer-science-professor-honored-by-the-semiconductor-industry-association  

Prof. Cong delivered the IEEE CEDA distinguished lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign on Monday, September 23, 2019. The talk title is “Democratize Customizable Computing”.

Computer Science Professor Jason Cong, together with his co-authors Dr. Chen Zhang (former visiting student, now at Microsoft Research Asia), Prof. Guangyu Sun (Peking University), Prof. Zhenman Fang (former postdoc, now faculty member at Simon Fraser Univ.), Peipei Zhou (current PhD student), and Peichen Pan (Falcon Computing), have received the 2019 Donald O. Pederson Best…
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Prof. Jason Cong is one of the recipients of the Google Faculty Research Award (FRA) for 2019. Google FRA program is focused on funding world-class technical research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Among 910 proposals from 40 countries and over 320 universities submitted this year,  158 projects were selected for funding this year.

Computer Science Professor Jason Cong and coauthors Yi-Hsiang Lai, Yuze Chi, Yuwei Hu, Jie Wang, Cody Hao Yu, Yuan Zhou, and Prof. Zhiru Zhang has received the Best Paper Award at the 27th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays held in Seaside, CA, February 24-26, 2019.  Their paper, “HeteroCL: A Multi-Paradigm Programming Infrastructure for Software-Defined…
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Prof. Cong delivered a keynote speech at the 2018 Computing in the 21st Century Conference (21CCC) & Asia Faculty Summit hosted by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in junction with the MSRA 20-Year Anniversary Celebration on November 6, 2018 held in Beijing, China. The title of Prof. Cong’s speech is “Automating Customizable Computing – Democratizing Accelerator…
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