{"id":1461,"date":"2023-06-30T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.jhu.edu\/dfan\/?page_id=1461"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:12:12","slug":"deliang-fan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficient, Secure and Intelligent Computing (ESIC) Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:17% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/2023\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/2023\/06\/image.png 299w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/2023\/06\/image-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:21px\"><strong>Dr. Deliang Fan<\/strong> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/3509434\">Associate Professor<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/ecee.engineering.asu.edu\/\">School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering<\/a> (ECEE), Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:21px\">Dr. Fan&nbsp;is the director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Efficient, Secure and Intelligent Computing&nbsp;(ESIC)<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Laboratory<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:21px\">Please check the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/research\/\">Research<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/publications\/\">Publication<\/a> tabs&nbsp;for details of ESIC research lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Fan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=sAflhJUAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\">Google scholar page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dblp.org\/pid\/129\/1701.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dblp page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research Areas:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI Circuit, Chip, and System Hardware Design [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/in-memory-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Energy Efficient In-Memory Computing Circuit, Architecture, Chip, and Algorithm Cross-Layer Co-Design, with applications in AI, Deep Neural Network, Data Encryption, Graph Processing, Bioinformatics, etc. [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/in-memory-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficient Edge-AI Algorithm [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/deep-learning-neural-network\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adversarial AI Security and Trustworthy AI System [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/ai-security\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brain-inspired (Neuromorphic) and Boolean Computing Using Emerging Nanoscale Devices like Spintronics, ReRAM and Memristors [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/neuromorphic-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Low Power Digital VLSI Circuit Design [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/in-memory-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nano-scale Physics Based Spintronic Device (GMR\/ TMR Vertical Spin Valve, Magnetic Skyrmion, Lateral Spin Valve, Magnetic Domain Wall Strip, Spin-Torque Oscillator, Spin-Orbit Torque ) Modeling and Simulations [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/neuromorphic-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronic Design Automation [<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/in-memory-computing\/\">link<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-asu-maroon-color has-text-color\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-asu-maroon-color\">Research Assistant Positions Available:<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>we welcome all levels of students to apply (undergraduate\/ master\/ PhD students). please send your CV to&nbsp;<strong>dfan@asu.edu<\/strong>&nbsp;if interested (even you already applied in our ASU PHD system, I recommend to send your CV directly to my email). <em>Our recruiting areas are VLSI circuit and chip design for In-memory computing, AI accelerator, on-device learning, etc. Another areas are efficient on-device learning algorithm co-design, <em>AI Security<\/em>. Multiple positions in those areas. please reach out to me if you are interested.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Academic Awards of Dr. Fan:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Best Presenter Award<\/strong>, IEEE 15<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Top Picks in Hardware and&nbsp;Embedded Security<\/strong> in 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Science Foundation&nbsp;<\/strong>Faculty Early Career Development<strong>&nbsp;(CAREER) Award<\/strong>, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best IP Paper Award&nbsp;<\/strong>in Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Top 5% Faculty<\/strong>&nbsp;at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Top 5% Teaching Award<\/strong>, Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award Nomination&nbsp;<\/strong>of ASU Graduate College, 2021\/2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ASU SUN Award<\/strong>, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>&nbsp;in 29th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Candidate<\/strong>&nbsp;in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Candidate<\/strong>&nbsp;in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Schloss Dagstuhl \u2013 NSF<\/strong> Award for Junior Researchers, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award&nbsp;<\/strong>in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Poster Award (1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;place)<\/strong>, ACM SIGDA &amp; IEEE CEDA PhD Forum at Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>&nbsp;in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Deliang Fan<\/strong> is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Dr Fan is a co-founder of a stealth AI chip startup. Dr. Fan\u2019s primary research interests include AI Hardware, Chip Design, Efficient AI algorithm, In-Memory Computing Circuits and Architecture, Adversarial and Trustworthy AI System. Dr. Fan has authored around 190 peer-reviewed international journal\/conference research papers. He is the receipt of National Science Foundation Career Award, best paper award of 2019 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), and 2017 IEEE ISVLSI, best IP paper award of 2022 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE). His research works were also nominated as best paper candidate 2021 Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) and 2019 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). He is also the TPC Chair\/Co-Chair of ISQED 2023-2026, chair of iMACAW@DAC 2022-2025, technical area chair of DAC 2021\/2025, GLSVLSI 2019-2022, ISQED 2019-2022. He served as technical reviewers for 30+ international journals\/conferences, such as Nature Electronics, IEEE TNNLS, TVLSI, TCAD, TNANO, TC, TCAS, etc. He also served as the Technical Program Committee member of DAC, ICCAD, HPCA, MICRO, AAAI, WACV, GLSVLSI, ISVLSI, ASP-DAC, etc. Dr. Fan served as the guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Frontiers in Physics, etc. Dr. Fan is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. Please refer to his research website for more details: <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/\">https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/dfan\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Dr. Deliang Fan is an Associate Professor at School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE), Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ. Dr. Fan&nbsp;is the director of the&nbsp;Efficient, Secure and Intelligent Computing&nbsp;(ESIC)&nbsp;Laboratory. Please check the&nbsp;Research and Publication tabs&nbsp;for details of ESIC research lab. 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