Degrees
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, MIT, 2010
- S.M. in Electrical Engineering, MIT, 2006
- B.A.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2004
Teaching
- 6.5930/1 (formerly 6.812/6.825 and 6.S082/6.888) Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning, Fall 2017, Spring 2019 – 2021, 2023, 2024
- 6.6010 (formerly 6.374) Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, Fall 2013 – 2016, 2018 – 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
- 6.344 Digital Image Processing, Spring 2014, 2017
- 6.003 Signals and Systems, Spring 2018
- 6.01 Intro to EECS I, Spring 2015
- MIT Professional Education Short Course on Designing Efficient Deep Learning Systems
Awards and Fellowships
- 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software Best Paper Award
— for “CiMLoop: A Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Compute-In-Memory Modeling Framework”
- 2021 University of Toronto Engineering Mid-Career Achievement Award
- 2020 ACM-W Rising Star Award [ Video ]
— For contributions to the development of new techniques that bridge algorithm and hardware design, enabling optimization across multiple layers of abstraction for greatly improved performance
- 2019 Edgerton Faculty Award
- 2018 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award
— for “Navion: A Fully Integrated Energy-Efficient Visual-Inertial Odometry Accelerator for Autonomous Navigation of Nano Drones”
- 2018 Google Faculty Research Award
- 2018 Facebook Faculty Award
- 2018 Qualcomm Faculty Award
- 2017 CICC Outstanding Invited Paper Award
— for “Hardware for Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”
- 2017 Qualcomm Faculty Award
- Member of the JCT-VC team that received the 2017 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for the development of the HEVC video compression standard
- 2016 Google Faculty Research Award
- 2016 IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture
— for “Eyeriss: A Spatial Architecture for Energy-Efficient Dataflow for Convolutional Neural Networks”
- 2016 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award
- 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
- 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)
- 2011 Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in electrical engineering at MIT
— for “Parallel algorithms and architectures for low power video decoding”
- 2008 A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award
- 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award
- Texas Instruments Graduate Women’s Fellowship for Leadership in Microelectronics in 2008
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarships in 2005 and 2007
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Julie Payette Fellowship in 2004
- University of Toronto Adel S. Sedra Gold Medal, Henry G. Acres Medal and W.S. Wilson Medal in 2004
Professional Activities
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) (2024 – 2025)
- Board, Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) Conference (2021 – 2023)
- Technical Program Committee (Machine Learning and AI sub-committee), International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (2020 – 2021)
- (Systems) Program Chair, Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) Conference (2020)
- Technical Program Committee, Symposium on VLSI Circuits (2016 – 2019)
- Program Committee, Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) Conference (2019)
- Advisory Committee (AdCom), IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) (2018 – 2020)
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) (2018 – 2019)
- Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) (2017, 2018)
- Chair, Workshop on “Circuits for Social Good” at 2018 International Solid-State Circuits Conferences (ISSCC)
- Guest Editor for special issue on “Efficient HEVC Implementations” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
- Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC) (2014 – 2016)
- Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (DISPS TC) (2014 – 2016)
