Sai Qian Zhang
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Designs efficient AI algorithms and neural network accelerators, with a focus on AR/VR computing.
Sai Qian Zhang's lab at NYU works on accelerators, chips & architecture and efficient training & inference. 54 papers since 2023. 4 PhD students and 12 master's students. 19 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 12
- alumni listed
- 19
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 22 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 20 papers2025 · T1 0
- 12 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Efficient training & inference19 papers
- Accelerators, chips & architecture1 paper
- network accelerators0 papers
- designs efficient0 papers
- neural network0 papers
Paper list
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202622 papers
- IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)A 64.5 TFLOPS/W 16-nm AI Training Accelerator with 4T-eDRAM for Efficient Gradient and Activation Handling (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)ClusQuant: Mitigating Outliers with Clustering-Based Representations for Low-Precision LRMs
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)CodeQuant: Unified Clustering and Quantization for Enhanced Outlier Smoothing in Low-Precision Mixture-of-Experts (opens in a new tab)
- ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), VisArch WorkshopColor-Aware Early Termination for Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting in Real-Time AR/VR Execution (opens in a new tab)
- Forty- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)DREAM-R: Multimodal Speculative Reasoning with RL-Based Refined Drafting, Precise Verification, and Fully Parallel Execution (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)DREAM-S: Speculative Decoding with Searchable Drafting and Target-Aware Refinement for Multimodal Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)ECHO: Efficient Head-Orientation-Guided Real-Time Sound Spatialization for Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)EgoEverything: A Benchmark for Human Behavior–Inspired Long-Context Egocentric Video Understanding in AR Environment (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)FedNASP: Federated Vision-Language Navigation with Adaptive Step-wise Personalization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)FLAME: A Framework Exploring Execution Strategies for Multi-Cycle Operations in CGRA (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), VisArch WorkshopInvisibleHand : Adversarial Attack Against Embodied AI Execution in Wearable AR System (opens in a new tab)
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)LARA: LLM-based Agile Power Distribution Network Restoration from Disastrous Events (opens in a new tab)
202520 papers
- ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)A3FR: Agile 3D Gaussian Splatting with Incremental Gaze Tracked Foveated Rendering in Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Multimedia Conference (MM)CapRecover: A Cross-Modality Feature Inversion Attack Framework on Vision Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)DFRot: Achieving Outlier-Free and Massive Activation-Free for Rotated LLMs with Refined Rotation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)DFT GAZE: Distilled and Fine-Tuned Gaze Estimation for Personalization on Tiny Devices (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)DiTAS: Quantizing Diffusion Transformers via Enhanced Activation Smoothing (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)DREAM: Drafting with Refined Target Features and Entropy-Adaptive Cross-Attention Fusion for Multimodal Speculative Decoding (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)ESCA: Enabling Seamless Codec Avatar Execution through Algorithm and Hardware Co-Optimization for Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Virtual Reality conference (VR)FovealNet: Advancing AI-Driven Gaze Tracking Solutions for Efficient Foveated Rendering in Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Foveated Instance Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)FrameVoting: A Robust and Fast Method of Using Gaze Estimations to Identify Objects of Interest (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)HAAN: A Holistic Approach for Accelerating Normalization Operations in Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)Hardware and Algorithm Codesign for Efficient Gaze Tracking in Virtual Reality System (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental SystemsA Task-Oriented Deep Learning Approach for Human Localization (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)Accelerating DNN Execution with Adaptive N:M Pruning on Both Weight and Data (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)Co-Designing AI Models and eDRAMs for Efficient On-Device Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)DLoRA: Distributed parameter-efficient fine-tuning solution for large language model (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)Hyft: Softmax Acceleration with Adaptive Numeric Format for both Training and Inference (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)Learning Client Selection Strategy for Federated Learning across Heterogeneous Mobile Devices (opens in a new tab)
- Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)MRAM Design-Technology-System Co-Optimization for Artificial Intelligence Edge Devices (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Parallel Processing (ICPP)Murmuration: On-the-fly DNN Adaptation for SLO-Aware Distributed Inference in Dynamic Edge Environments (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)Parameter-efficient fine-tuning for large models: A comprehensive survey (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD)Rome was Not Built in a Single Step: Hierarchical Prompting for LLM-based Chip Design (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)sLLM: Accelerating LLM Inference using Semantic Load Balancing with Shared Memory Data Structures (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)T3M: Text Guided 3D Human Motion Synthesis from Speech (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went19 listed
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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