Recognitions: Part of a Journey, but not the Destination

Best Paper Awards

  1. Best Student Paper Award, "The Design and Implementation of a Scalable DL Benchmarking Platform," IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Oct 2020.

  2. Best Paper Award, "XSP: Across-Stack Profiling and Analysis of Machine Learning Models on GPUs," The 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2020.

  3. Best Research Paper Award, "Evaluating Characteristics of CUDA Communication Primitives on High-Bandwidth Interconnects," The 10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), April 2019.

  4. IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla Best Paper Award, "DNNBuilder: an Automated Tool for Building High-Performance DNN Hardware Accelerators for FPGAs,'" ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2018.

  5. Best Paper in Track Award, "Variation Aware Optimal Threshold Voltage Computation for On-chip Noise Sensors," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2014.

  6. Best Paper Award, "Robust Extraction of Spatial Correlation," ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), April 2006.

  7. Best Student Paper Award, "Performance Optimization Global Routing with RLC Crosstalk Constraints," IEEE International Conference on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICON), Oct 2003.


Best Paper Award Nominations

  1. ``Application-Transparent Near-Memory Processing Architecture with Memory Channel Network,'' The 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'51), Oct 2018.

  2. ``Path Criticality Computation in Parameterized Statistical Timing Analysis,'' IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan 2011.

  3. ``Optimal Statistical Chip Disposition,'' ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2011.

  4. ``Stochastic Current Prediction Enabled Frequency Actuator for Runtime Resonance Noise Reduction,'' IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan 2009.

  5. ``Statistical Multilayer Process Space Coverage for At-Speed Test,'' IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2009.

  6. ``Statistical Path Selection for At-Speed Test,'' ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2008.

  7. ``Compact Modeling of Variational Waveforms,'' ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2007.

  8. ``Efficient Decoupling Capacitance Budgeting Considering Current Correlation Including Process Variation,'' ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2007.

Best Poster Awards

  1. ``SPGNet: Semantic Prediction Guidance for Scene Parsing,'' IBM AI Horizons Colloquium, Sept 2019.

  2. ``A Bi-Directional Co-Design Approach to Enable Deep Learning on IoT Devices,'' Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'19) Joint Workshop on On-Device Machine Learning and Compact Deep Neural Network Representations (ODML-CDNNR), June 2019.

  3. ``DNNBuilder: an Automated Tool for Building High-Performance DNN Hardware Accelerators for FPGAs,'' IBM AI Horizons Colloquium, Oct 2018.

International Competition Awards

  1. Student Innovation Award, "HyKernel: A Hybrid Selection of One/Two-Phase Kernels for Triangle Counting on GPUs," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2021.

  2. Champion Award, "At-Scale Sparse Deep Neural Network Inference With Efficient GPU Implementation," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2020.

  3. The Third Place Award, "Embedded System Implementation of Neural Network based Object Detection for Drones," The System Design Contest (FPGA track) at the 57 Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2020.

  4. Student Innovation Award, "Update on k-truss Decomposition on GPU," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2019.

  5. Honorable Mention, "Update on Triangle Counting on GPU," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2019.

  6. Honorable Mention, "Accelerating Sparse Deep Neural Network on FPGAs," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2019.

  7. The First Place Award, "Embedded System Implementation of Neural Network based Object Detection for Drones," The System Design Contest (GPU track) at the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2019.

  8. The First Place Award, "Embedded System Implementation of Neural Network based Object Detection for Drones," The System Design Contest (FPGA track) at the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2019.

  9. Student Innovation Award, "Triangle Counting and Truss Decomposition using FPGA," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2018.

  10. Finalist, "Collaborative (CPU + GPU) Algorithms for Triangle Counting and Truss Decomposition," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2018.

  11. The Third Place Award, "Embedded System Implementation of Neural Network based Object Detection for Drones," The System Design Contest (FPGA track) at the 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2018.

  12. The First Place Award, "Single-Person Human Parsing Task," 2018 CVPR Challenge on "Look Into Person (LIP)," The 30th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2018.

  13. The First Place Award, "Multi-Person Human Parsing Task," 2018 CVPR Challenge on "Look Into Person (LIP)," The 30th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2018.

  14. Honorable Mention, "Collaborative (CPUT+GPU) algorithms for triangle counting and truss decomposition on the Minsky architecture," IEEE-HPEC MIT and Amazon GraphChallenge, Sept 2017.

Professional Awards

  1. The Thirteenth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, June 2021.

  2. The Twelfth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Feb 2021.

  3. The Eleventh Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Aug 2020.

  4. Google Faculty Awards, Google Inc., June 2020.

  5. The Tenth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Oct 2019.

  6. The Ninth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Nov 2017.

  7. Master Inventor Award}, IBM Research, 2016.

  8. The Eighth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Nov 2014.

  9. Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, for Contributions to Statistical Test Methodology Development and Deployment for IBM 45 Nanometer High-Performance ASICs, IBM Research, 2014.

  10. Outstanding Technical Contribution Award, for Contributions to Statistical Test and Smarter Energy Research, IEEE Region One, 2014.

  11. Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, for Contribution to Smarter Energy Research, IBM Research, 2014.

  12. The Seventh Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Dec 2013.

  13. Research Division Award, for Contributions to Smarter Energy Research Institute, IBM Research, 2013.

  14. The Sixth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Sept 2012.

  15. Research Division Award, for Contributions to Research Big Bet on Smarter Energy Research, IBM Research, 2012.

  16. The Fifth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Nov 2011.

  17. The Forth Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, July 2010.

  18. The Third Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, Oct 2009.

  19. The Second Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, April 2008.

  20. Research Division Award, for Contributions to Statistical Timing IP Revenue, IBM Research, 2007.

  21. The First Invention Plateau Achievement Award, IBM Research, April 2007.

  22. Beijing Science and Technology Bronze Award, “Embedded System Design for Mass Optical Storage Systems,” The Government of Beijing, China, 2002.