Chen Zhang / 张宸

Education / 教育

[2012~2017] Ph.D / 博士, Peking University / 北京大学

• Computer System and Architecture
• Supervisor 1: Prof. Jason Cong (Distinguished Visiting Professor until 2020)
• Supervisor 2: Prof. Guangyu Sun
• Alunimi Website

[2015~2016] Visiting Scholar / 访问学者, University of California, Los Angeles / 加州大学洛杉矶分校

• Computer Science
• Supervisor: Prof. Jason Cong
  • National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, IEEE/ACM Fellow
• Alunimi Website

[2008~2012] B.S. / 学士, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / 电子科技大学

• Department of Micro-electronics
• Honored Graduation

Work Experience / 工作经历

[2023~Present] Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor
• Department of Micro-nano Electronics
• School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering

[2021~2023] Alibaba T-head / 阿里巴巴平头哥, Parallel Computing Department

• Chip Architect (P8)
• Duties: GPGPU Micro-architecture, Direct Chip Connection, AI Acceleration
• Team Leader: Dr. Yuan Xie (VP Alibaba, IEEE/ACM/AAAS Fellow)

[2017~2021] Microsoft Research Asia / 微软亚洲研究院, System and Networking Research Group

• Associate Researcher ~ Senior Researcher
• Duties: AI System and Heterogenous Computing
• Team Leader: Dr. Lidong Zhou (CVP Microsoft, IEEE/ACM Fellow)

Research Interest / 研究兴趣

Heterogenous Computing for AI Systems

• Sparse Computing
• Parallel Computing and Inter-chip Connection
• Anything about breaking through AI chip’s performance bottleneck

Computer Architectures

• Reconfigurable Computing & FPGA
• GPGPU Architecture
• Emerging Computing Architecture

Honors & Awards / 荣誉与奖项

[2023] 上海市白玉兰人才计划
[2023] MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mention / 体系结构年度最佳论文提名
[2022] ACM Chinasys Rising Star Award / 新星奖, ACM
[2022] AI 2000 World’s Most Influential Scholars (Chip Technology, Top-2) / 人工智能世界最有影响力学者（芯片技术,第二名），中国工程科技知识中心
[2021] World’s top-2\% most cited scientists (computer hardware and architecture) / 全球引用量前2%学者（计算机硬件与架构）, Stanford & Elsevier
[2019] Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award (First Winner from Mainland China) / 最佳论文奖 (中国大陆首个获奖者), IEEE CEDA
[2019] 院长特别奖 (1/50), 微软研究院
[2016] 光华奖学金 (1%), 北京大学
[2015] 优秀科研奖 (1%), 北京大学
[2015] FPGA 2015 Best Paper Nomination / 最佳论文提名 (第一作者)，ACM

Academic Service / 学术服务

• Served as Chairs at academic events:
  • Program Chair: Chinasys/SIGOPS, TURC (图灵大会) 2023
• Served as PC Member at conferences:
  • NeurIPS/AAAI/CVPR
• Serve as members at academic & society organizations:
  • Member of BAAI
  • Member of CCF TCARCH and TCICD
• Serve as a reviewer at Transactions / Journals:
  • TECS (ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems)
  • TCC (IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing)
  • T-CAD (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems)