CN PekingSchool of Computer Science Jan 15
Leads research on database systems and large-scale machine learning systems, including distributed training and data management for AI.
Efficient training & inference Distributed, cloud & edge systems Data management & big data2026 ChartVerse: Scaling Chart Reasoning via Reliable Programmatic Synthesis from Scratch ACL 2026 DARTS: Distribution-Aware Active Rollout Trajectory Shaping for Accelerating LLM Reinforcement Learning ICML 118 T1 · 187 papers · 36 members · 64 alumni SaveSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Builds data systems and infrastructure for large language models and agentic AI, federated learning and graph analytics on GPUs, TPUs and FPGAs.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Distributed, cloud & edge systems Large language models2026 'They've Stolen My GPL-Licensed Model!': Toward Standardized and Transparent Model Licensing WWW 2026 ABFlow: Alert Bursting Flow Query in Streaming Temporal Flow Networks SIGMOD 110 T1 · 134 papers · 7 members · 12 alumni SaveUS UC BerkeleyElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dec 1
Builds cloud computing and AI systems, such as Ray, vLLM and Sky Computing.
Distributed, cloud & edge systems2026 Agentix: An Efficient Serving Engine for LLM Agents as General Programs NSDI 2026 BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference with Resource-Aware Batching ASPLOS 87 T1 · 103 papers · 19 members · 57 alumni SaveCN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Works on parallel and cloud computing and compilers, with recent work on accelerating LLMs through hardware-friendly quantization (OliVe) and deep learning…
Efficient training & inference Distributed, cloud & edge systems2026 Accelerating MoE with Dynamic In-Switch Computing on Multi-GPUs ISCA 2026 Arena: Efficiently Training Large Models via Dynamic Scheduling and Adaptive Parallelism Co-Design EuroSys 74 T1 · 217 papers · Group size not listed SaveSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Yang You NUS Presidential Young Professor Leads the HPC-AI Lab on scaling deep neural network training on distributed systems, including the LAMB optimiser.
Efficient training & inference Distributed, cloud & edge systems2026 ASCIIEval: Benchmarking Models' Visual Perception in Text Strings via ASCII Art ICLR 2026 DyDiT++: Diffusion Transformers With Timestep and Spatial Dynamics for Efficient Visual Generation TPAMI 64 T1 · 85 papers · 15 members · 29 alumni SaveUS CMUElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 9
Designs efficient algorithms and systems for training and serving large language models, including sparsity and long-context inference.
Efficient training & inference Large language models2026 AstraFlow: Dataflow-Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Agentic LLMs ↗ NeurIPS 2026 CamoDocs: A Poisoning Attack Against Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Using Camouflaged Documents ↗ EMNLP 51 T1 · 54 papers · 5 members · 13 alumni SaveUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Song Han Associate Professor Develops efficient deep learning, including model compression, quantization, and hardware-software co-design for LLM inference.
Efficient training & inference Accelerators, chips & architecture2026 DeltaQuant: 4-bit Video Diffusion Models with Spatiotemporal Delta Smoothing CVPR 2026 Fast-dLLM v2: Efficient Block-Diffusion Large Language Model ICLR 46 T1 · 52 papers · 7 members · 13 alumni SaveCN SJTUSchool of Artificial Intelligence May 31
Works on machine learning systems and data management, including the Hetu distributed deep learning system.
Distributed, cloud & edge systems Data management & big data2026 BOute: Cost-Efficient LLM Serving with Heterogeneous LLMs and GPUs via Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization MLSys 2026 Cascadia: An Efficient Cascade Serving System for Large Language Models ICLR 45 T1 · 56 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS UCSDComputer Science and Engineering Dec 15
Builds programming systems and GPU-optimized libraries, with work on compilers for machine learning and quantum computing.
Compilers & programming languages Quantum computing2026 AMMA: A Multi-Chiplet Memory-Centric Architecture for Low-Latency 1M Context Attention Serving MICRO 2026 AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers NeurIPS 44 T1 · 55 papers · 12 members · 15 alumni SaveUS CMUComputer Science Department Dec 9
Builds machine learning systems and compilers for deploying models efficiently across hardware.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Efficient training & inference2026 AdaServe: Accelerating Multi-SLO LLM Serving with SLO-Customized Speculative Decoding EuroSys 2025 APE: Faster and Longer Context-Augmented Generation via Adaptive Parallel Encoding ICLR 43 T1 · 45 papers · 48 members · 31 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Designs hardware accelerators and interconnection networks for machine learning.
Accelerators, chips & architecture2026 Compositional AI Beyond LLMs: System Implications of Neuro-Symbolic-Probabilistic Architectures ASPLOS 2026 Demystifying AI Platform Design for Distributed Inference of Next-Generation LLM Models ICCAD 43 T1 · 87 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN TsinghuaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Ju Ren Associate Professor Works on on-device and edge intelligence, including on-device large-model inference, memory systems, and privacy and security of large models.
Security & privacy Efficient training & inference Large language models2026 Accelerating Graph-Based RAG Retrieval via Locality-Aware Device–Cloud Collaboration KDD 2026 AdamO: A Collapse-Suppressed Optimizer for Offline RL ICML 42 T1 · 80 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Works on efficient deep learning, including model compression, efficient transformers and large-model training and inference.
Efficient training & inference2026 An Empirical Study on How Video-LLMs Answer Videos Questions CVPR 2026 BLADE: Block-Sparse Attention Meets Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generation ICLR 41 T1 · 54 papers · 22 members · 7 alumni SaveUS UIUCElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 1
Studies computer architecture and systems for AI, including energy-efficient processor, memory and network architectures for machine learning.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Efficient training & inference2026 AMG: AMX-GPU cooperative acceleration of billion-scale ANNS via GEMM reformulation MICRO 2026 ARC: adaptive reconfigurable CXL hotness monitoring MICRO 40 T1 · 83 papers · 25 members · 22 alumni SaveUS UT AustinComputer Science Dec 15
Works on efficient machine learning and ML systems for generative models and robotics, such as fast diffusion and 3D perception.
Efficient training & inference Generative & foundation models Image & video generation2026 CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself? CVPR 2026 QuantV2X: A Fully Quantized Multi-agent System for Cooperative Perception ECCV 38 T1 · 45 papers · 5 members SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Computer Science Dec 15
Leads the EIC Lab on efficient machine learning through co-design of algorithms, accelerators and chips.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Efficient training & inference2025 A Unified Accelerator for Real-Time Rendering Across Diverse Neural Renderers HPCA 2025 Early-Bird Diffusion: Investigating and Leveraging Timestep-Aware Early-Bird Tickets in Diffusion Models for Efficient Training CVPR 36 T1 · 45 papers · 9 members · 15 alumni SaveCN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Bo Chen Tenured Track Associate Professor Builds networked and machine learning systems for immersive computing, with device-edge-cloud collaboration for visual, XR and 3D content applications.
Distributed, cloud & edge systems VR, AR & immersive media Generative 3D & visual content2026 DocRetriever: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Multimodal Document Retrieval with Comprehensive Benchmark KDD 2026 Modular Representation Compression: Adapting LLM Representations for Efficient and Effective Recommendation SIGIR 35 T1 · 52 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Kaisheng Ma Tenured associate professor Works on AI chiplets and accelerators, AI algorithms for self-driving, and implanted systems and neural dust.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Autonomous vehicles & drones2026 ES-dLLM: Efficient Inference for Diffusion Large Language Models by Early-Skipping ICLR 2026 FBS: Accelerating CNN Inference over RNS-CKKS with Fewer Bootstrapping Sparsity DAC 32 T1 · 47 papers · 15 members · 0 alumni SaveUS UC BerkeleyElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dec 1
Builds data and AI systems, including Apache Spark, MLflow and ColBERT, and LLM programming frameworks like DSPy.
Efficient training & inference2026 Can QPP Choose the Right Query Variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines SIGIR 2026 EXP-Bench: Can AI Conduct AI Research Experiments? ICLR 32 T1 · 67 papers · 15 members · 16 alumni SaveUS UIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Dec 1
Studies efficient machine learning systems, including model compression and training and inference on parallel hardware.
Efficient training & inference Accelerators, chips & architecture Data management & big data2026 A Goal Without a Plan Is Just a Wish: Efficient and Effective Global Planner Training for Long-Horizon Agent Task ACL 2026 AutoSP: Unlocking Long-Context LLM Training Via Compiler-Based Sequence Parallelism ICLR 32 T1 · 52 papers · 15 members · 10 alumni Save