Prof. Zhiru Zhang joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University as an assistant professor in August 2012 and was elevated to the rank of associate professor in July 2018. He is a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory.
Prof. Zhang received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University. In 2006, he co-founded AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. based on his dissertation research on high-level synthesis (HLS). AutoESL was acquired by Xilinx in 2011 and its HLS tool is now known as Vivado HLS, which is the first mainstream and most widely deployed C-based design tool for FPGAs. Prior to joining Cornell, he served as a software development manager at Xilinx, where he received the 2012 Ross Freeman Award for Technical Innovation, the highest technical award given by Xilinx.
Prof. Zhang's research has earned several awards, among them a best paper award from the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), a Best Short Paper Award from IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM 2018), and multiple best paper nominations (ICCAD 2009, FPGA 2017, FPGA 2018).
Prof. Zhang's research broadly investigates new applications, optimization algorithms, and design automation tools for heterogeneous computing. recent publications focus on the topics of high-level synthesis, accelerator architectures, programming for FPGAs, and algorithm-hardware co-design for machine learning.
Research Group MembersDigital Logic Design, Electronic Design Automation
Christopher Batten, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and colleagues want to increase production of open-source computer hardware.
Read more about Creating open designs for complex computer chips"The winners, from both innovative companies as well as universities, were announced during the conferences opening keynote session at the 55th gathering of DAC, the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems. The Under-40 Innovators Award is sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Systems Design Alliance (ESDA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award recognizes the top five young innovators, who already have made a significant impact in the field of design and automation of electronics."
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