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.

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

• [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 was the only one from ECE 110 with 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.