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Lab Director

Deliang Fan

Deliang Fan

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Fan's research interests include efficient AI hardware and algorithm, AI chip design, in-memory computing circuits and architecture, adversarial and trustworthy AI system.


Current Graduate Students

Yongjae Lee

Yongjae Lee

Ph.D. candidate since Fall 2022

Research Interest: Efficient 3D modeling through NeRF/3DGS


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Asmer Hamid Ali

PhD candidate since 2024

Research Interest: AI accelerator hardware


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Jingxing Li

PhD candidate since 2024 Fall

Research Interest: 3DGS


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Jingkai Guo

PhD candidate since 2025 Spring

Research Interest: Efficient and Secure AI


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Md. Habibur Rahman

PhD candidate since 2025 Spring

Research Interest: AI Chip


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Yihang Zuo

PhD candidate since 2025 Fall

Research Interest: AI Hardware-Software Co-Design


Alumni PhD

Zhezhi He

Zhezhi He

Ph.D. awarded in 2020 Summer

Ph.D. thesis: Efficient and Secure Deep Learning Inference System, A Software and Hardware Co-Design Perspective; Current: Associate Professor in Shanghai Jiaotong University; Research website: https://elliothe.github.io/


Shaahin Angizi

Shaahin Angizi

Ph.D. awarded in 2021 Spring

Ph.D. thesis: Processing-in-Memory for Data-Intensive Applications, From Device to Algorithm Current: Assistant Professor in New Jersey Institute of Technology Research Website: https://www.shaahinangizi.com/


Adnan Siraj Rakin

Adnan Siraj Rakin

Ph.D. awarded in 2022 Summer

Ph.D. thesis: Exploration of Security and Privacy Challenges through Adversarial Weight Perturbation in Deep Learning Models. Current: Assistant Professor of The State University of New York, Binghamton


Li Yang

Li Yang

Ph.D. awarded in 2023 Summer

Ph.D. thesis: Efficient Deep Learning at Edge, From Efficient and Dynamic Inference to On-Device Learning Current: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Website: https://lyang-666.github.io/


Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang

Ph.D. awarded in 2024 Summer

Ph.D. thesis: Efficient In- and Near-Memory Computing System With Hardware and Software Co-Design Current: Google


Amitesh Sridharan

Amitesh Sridharan

Ph.D. in 2025 Summer

Ph.D. thesis: Compute-in-memory Circuits and Architectures for Efficient Acceleration of AI and Data Centric Workloads Current: Apple


Alumni Master with Thesis

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Zhou Yu

Master with thesis in 2023 Fall

Master thesis title: NeRF Robustness Study Against Adversarial Bit Flip Attack


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Zeming Zhou

Master with thesis in 2023 Summer

Master thesis title: Deep Learning based Air Quality Prediction with Time Series Sensor Network Data


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Kiju Kim

Master with thesis awarded in 2021 Fall

Master thesis title: Accelerating Genome Quantification in FPGA


Li Yang

Li Yang

Master with thesis awarded in 2018 Fall

Master thesis title: Exploring FPGA Implementation for Binarized Neural Network Inference