Year: 2025

Akshat Ramachandran and Zishen Wan won second and third place, respectively, at ACM Student Research Competition.

CoCoSys PhD students Akshat Ramachandran and Zishen Wan, both advised by PI Tushar Krishna, won second and third position, respectively, at the ACM Student Research Competition held at MICRO 2024. Their respective papers were “MicroScopiQ: Accelerating Foundational Models through Outlier-Aware Microscaling Quantization” and “Demystifying Neuro-Symbolic AI through Workload Characterization and Software-Hardware Co-Design.”

Aspen will be presented at CICC 2025

“Aspen: A 630 FPS Real-Time Posit-Based Unified Accelerator for Extended Reality” authored by Kathleen Feng, Kartik Prabhu, Kai Bartolone, Jeffrey Yu and Priyanka Raina will be presented at CICC 2025.

Sixu Li was Selected as a 2025 ML and Systems Rising Star

Sixu Li, a PhD student in PI Yingyan (Celine) Lin’s group, has been named one of the 2025 ML and Systems Rising Stars, an honor reserved for outstanding PhD students working at the intersection of machine learning and systems. This recognition is a testament to his many research contributions supported by CoCoSys, including his first-author […]

Heck Honored with Test of Time Award for Groundbreaking Research in Deep Learning for Web Search

PI Larry Heck’s influential research on deep learning for web search was recently honored with the Test of Time Award by the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). This prestigious award recognizes CIKM papers published over a decade ago that have made a significant and lasting impact on the research community. Heck received the […]

PI Larry Heck Elected to 2024 Class of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows

Technology Licensing celebrates Professor Larry Heck, Executive Director of the Machine Learning Center and Professor with joint appointments in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the College of Computing, on his election to the 2024 class of National Academy of Inventors Fellows. This honor recognizes Professor Heck’s exceptional contributions to innovation, advancing technology, […]

CoCoSys Co-Director Anand Raghunathan receives IEEE Technical Achievement Award

CoCoSys Co-director Anand Raghunathan, the Silicon Valley Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been honored with the IEEE Computer Society 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. He is being recognized for his “pioneering contributions to the field of approximate computing and its application to the design of […]

Research Spotlight: Torch2Chip with Jian Meng (Cornell Tech)

Advancements in AI model compression and hardware acceleration are essential for enabling efficient, high-performance deep learning systems. Torch2Chip is a customizable deep neural network compression and deployment toolkit designed to bridge the gap between AI algorithms and prototype hardware accelerators. Developed by Jian Meng, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell Tech under the guidance of Professor […]

Fusion3D: Research Spotlight

Fusion3D, developed by CoCoSys scholars Sixu Li, Yang (Katie) Zhao, Chaojian Li, Zhifan Ye, and other members of PI Prof. Yingyan (Celine) Lin’s lab at Georgia Tech, presents an end-to-end acceleration framework for real-time 3D intelligence. By accelerating computation and data movement across the algorithm, architecture, and system integration levels, this innovative approach significantly improves […]