Welcome

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I work with Prof. Sarita V. Adve on computer architecture and heterogeneous computing. I also work closely with Prof. Saugata Ghose.

Before my graduate study, I was a research assistant under the supervision of Prof. Chi Ying Tsui and Prof. Wing Hung Ki at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and NeuroTech (HK) Limited for half a year.

I received my Bachelor of Engineering with the first-class honor in ECE from HKUST in the summer of 2019 with two minors in IT and Math. My undergraduate study was supervised by Prof. Jiang Xu. I also worked with Prof. Ling Shi and Prof. Zhiyong Fan.

For my hobbies, please check More about Me.

Research Interests

I am interested in the design of hardware-software interface with the work spanning

• Computer Architecture
• Heterogeneous Computing
• Cache Coherence
• Near-memory Processing

My current research focuses on efficient cache coherence and data communication in CXL systems.

For my publications etc., please check CV.

News

• [Jan 2026] I passed my PhD Prelim Exam! Many thanks to my committee members: Professor Sarita Adve, Professor Saugata Ghose, Professor Jian Huang, and Professor Rakesh Kumar!
• [Sep 2025] I was selected as a Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students. I also received Outstanding Instructor Ratings. Thank you, my ECE 120 students!
• [Apr 2025] I received the Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award. Thank you, my ECE 120 students and Professor Ujjal Kumar Bhowmik!
• [Jan 2025] I was selected as a Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students. Thank you, my ECE 120 students!
• [Oct 2024] We presented our paper titled Mozart: Taming Taxes and Composing Accelerators with Shared-Memory work at PACT 2024!
• [Oct 2024] I was a session chair at PACT 2024!
• [Sep 2024] I was selected as a Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students. I also received Outstanding Instructor Ratings. Thank you, my ECE 110 students!
• [June 2024] Our paper titled Mozart: Taming Taxes and Composing Accelerators with Shared-Memory is accepted for publication at PACT 2024. It earns all artifact badges!
• [Nov 2023] Our paper titled A 12nm Linux-SMP-Capable RISC-V SoC with 14 Accelerator Types, Distributed Hardware Power Management and Flexible NoC-Based Data Orchestration is accepted for publication at ISSCC 2024!
• [Apr 2023] Our paper titled Trireme: Exploration of Hierarchical Multi-level Parallelism for Hardware Acceleration is accepted for publication at the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems!
• [Jan 2023] Our paper titled FARSI: An Early-stage Design Space Exploration Framework to Tame the Domain-specific System-on-chip Complexity is accepted for publication at the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems!
• [Jan 2022] Our paper titled ILLIXR: An Open Testbed to Enable Extended Reality Systems Research is selected as an IEEE MICRO Top Picks from the 2021 Computer Architecture Conferences!
• [Dec 2021] I passed my PhD Qualifying Exam!
• [Nov 2021] We presented our ILLIXR work at the 2021 ADA Symposium!
• [Nov 2021] We presented our paper titled ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Research at IISWC 2021. The video is available here! We also won the Best Paper Award!
• [Sep 2021] Our paper titled ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Research is accepted for publication at IISWC 2021. It also has the artifact part!
• [July 2021] FARSI becomes open-sourced. Available here!
• [June 2021] We presented our ILLIXR work at the ISCA 2021 tutorial. The video is available here!
• [Apr 2021] We presented our ILLIXR work at the ASPLOS 2021 tutorial!
• [Mar 2021] ILLIXR v2.1.10 is released. Available here!
• [Sep 2020] ILLIXR v2.1.0 is released. Available here!

Sincerely

I am always grateful for the people who offered me help and recognition regardless of the degree and amount. Some small help or even a single line of kind words can be the star that enlightens my world. An opportunity you offered me can alter the trajectory of my life. I would like to thank you all sincerely.