Awards & Activities

Awards

  • NSF CAREER Award
  • CISCO Research Award
  • Outstanding student paper award at 2023 HPEC
  • Best Paper Award at 2023 AAAI DCAA workshop
  • UConn Research Excellence Award, 2023
  • First place in accuracy and fourth place overall at the 2022 ACM/IEEE TinyML Design Contest at ICCAD
  • Publicity Paper at 2022 DAC
  • Excellent in teaching award from UConn Provost, 2021
  • Google’s exploreCSR Award, 2021
  • UConn Research Excellence Award, 2021
  • Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE Design Automation & Testing Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2018 and 2021
  • USDA-NIFA HATCH Award, 2020
  • Design Automation Conference (DAC) Travel Grant, 2019
  • International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Travel Grant, 2018
  • Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2018
  • Best Poster Finalist, Numan Research Day, Syracuse University, 2017
  • Received National Scholarship by Chinese Ministry of Education, November 2008. *Given to the person ranked 1st out of 300+ students
  • Baosteel Academic Scholarship in Chinese Universities, November 2010
  • CITIC Dameng Academic Scholarship, 2010
  • Hwagain Academic Scholarship, 2008, 2010
  • Second National Level in Chinese Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM),2009
  • Third National Level in Chinese Electrician Mathematical Contest in Modeling (EMCM), 2009

Professional Activities

Editor

  • Associate Editor, IEEE MWSCAS in Neural Networks Track, 2023.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE technical committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Newsletter

Conference Organizing Committee

  • ISQED 2023-present, CCH Track Chair
  • ASAP 2021, Web & Registration Chair
  • 2021 Google Tri-State ExploreCSR workshop
  • Travel Grant Committee Member, ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2020

Conference Program Committee

  • North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), 2021
  • IJCAI 2021
  • AAAI 2021
  • International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2021
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020
  • ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and the travel grant committee, 2020, 2021
  • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020, 2021
  • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020
  • IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2020
  • DAC Late Breaking Results (DAC-LBR), 2020.
  • IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2020
  • IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020

Reviewer

    • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS),
    • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),
    • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC),
    • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO),
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II),
    • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
    • IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2020,
    • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI),
    • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018, 2019
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS),
    • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
    • Integration, the VLSI Journal,
    • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
    • Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 2019,
    • IEEE Design & Test,
    • The 29th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2019,
    • IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS), 2017, 2019,
    • IEEE Access,
    • Embedded Systems Letters,
    • Digital Signal Processing – Journal – Elsevier,
    • Journal of Network and Computer Applications,
    • Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems,
    • Neurocomputing,