AI Acceleration/Low-Precision Computing

Artificial intelligence will aid in developing future chips, and future chips will enable better AI, so researchers are working to increase the workloads and lower the costs of machine learning.

Current Research:

  • Domain-specific architecture and system design for AI and Machine Learning with emphasis on near-data processing, in-network processing, and co-optimized design using approximate / low-precision computing
  • Development of sample-efficient and computationally inexpensive learning methods for deep neural networks with provable generalization guarantees
  • Physics-informed stochastic surrogate modeling for high-fidelity simulation; reinforcement-learning-based optimization for manufacturing process optimization; data-driven defective identification and quality improvement
  • Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of optimization, machine learning, and statistical signal processing

Faculty

Wei Bao
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Expertise:
Optical materials, optoelectronics, photonics
Tianyi Chen
Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Machine learning, optimization, signal processing
Edwin Fohtung
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Expertise:
Probing structure and dynamics
James Hendler
Professor, Computer Science
Research Expertise:
Scientific data, data science for healthcare, AI and machine learning, semantic data integration
Rena (Zhaoran) Huang
Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Photonics for communication and chip-scale computing
Liu Liu
Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Computer architecture and systems
Jacob Merson
Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Research Expertise:
Scientific computing, multiscale and multiphysics simulation
Ali Tajer
Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Wireless communication, machine learning, optimization
Meng Wang
Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Theory and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence
Yinan Wang
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Engineering-driven machine learning, system optimization
Tong Zhang
Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Research Expertise:
Computer systems
Shengbai Zhang
Professor, Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
Research Expertise:
Quantum first-principles theory of real materials/devices
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