Jason Cong
Distinguished Professor
Works on customizable domain-specific computing, high-level synthesis for FPGAs and machine-learning-assisted design of accelerators.
Jason Cong's lab at UCLA works on accelerators, chips & architecture and speech synthesis & voice. 63 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly AAAI and ICCAD. 17 PhD students. 54 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 16/ year
- at T1 venues
- 8%
- PhD students
- 17
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 54
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 22 papers2025 · T1 3
- 16 papers2024 · T1 1
- 16 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, ICCAD, DAC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech synthesis & voice16 papers
- high-level11 papers
- Accelerators, chips & architecture10 papers
- high-level synthesis9 papers
- fpgas5 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- ACM Computing Surveys, MarchA Survey on Graph Neural Network Acceleration: Algorithms, Systems, and Customized Hardware (opens in a new tab)
- DAC (T1)Can Asymmetric Tile Buffering Be Beneficial?
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Early Access, May 13, , DOI: 10.1109/TCAD. .3693066Enhancing ASIC HLS Design Optimization via Knowledge Transfer from FPGA HLS Models (opens in a new tab)
- Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), January 19-22, , DOI: 10.1109/ASP-DAC66049. .11420742FIFOAdvisor: A DSE Framework for Automated FIFO Sizing of High-Level Synthesis Designs (opens in a new tab)
- Communications AI & Computing, AugustHow well do LLMs understand code? (opens in a new tab)
- FCCMLUT-LLM: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Memory-based Computations on FPGAs (opens in a new tab)
- 1Report for NSF Workshop on AI for Electronic Design Automation
- Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICMLUnderstand and Accelerate Memory Processing Pipeline for Disaggregated LLM Inference (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Atlanta, GA, USAWhen Systolic Arrays Meet AI Engines: Architectural Constraints on AMD Versal ACAP (opens in a new tab)
202522 papers
- Proceedings of theA Unified Framework for Automated Code Transformation and Pragma Insertion (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 22-25, , San Francisco, CAAssessing Quantum Layout Synthesis Tools via Known Optimal-SWAP Cost Benchmarks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), October 26-30, , Munich, GermanyAutomated Design Space Exploration in High-Level Physical Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- ASPDAC '25: Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, January 20-23, , Tokyo, JapanCompilation for Dynamically Field-Programmable Qubit Arrays with Efficient and Provably Near-Optimal Scheduling (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE , August 31-September 5, , Albuquerque, NMCompilation of QCrank Encoding Algorithm for a Dynamically Programmable Qubit Array Processor (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Neuroscience, OctoberDendritome mapping reveals the spatial organization of striatal neuron morphology (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Dynamic-Width Speculative Beam Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Hierarchical Mixture of Experts: Generalizable Learning for High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of theHMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Language Processing (opens in a new tab)
- The IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCMHP-FFT: A General High-Performance FFT Generator Using High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), June 26-27, , Stanford, CAIceberg: Enhancing HLS Modeling with Synthetic Data (opens in a new tab)
- The IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM , May 4-7, , Fayetteville, ARInTAR: Inter-Task Auto-Reconfigurable Accelerator Design for High Data Volume Variation in DNNs (opens in a new tab)
202416 papers
- —(Best Conference Paper Award)
- Proceedings of theAtomique: A Quantum Compiler for Reconfigurable Neutral Atom Arrays (opens in a new tab)
- 8Compiling Quantum Circuits for Dynamically Field-Programmable Neutral Atoms Array Processors (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD ’24), September 9-11, , Salt Lake City, UT, USACross-Modality Program Representation Learning for Electronic Design Automation with High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), March 25-27, , Valencia, SpainDepth-Optimal Addressing of 2D Qubit Array with 1D Controls Based on Exact Binary Matrix Factorization (opens in a new tab)
- ICCAD '24: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, October 27-31, , New York, NY, Article NoEfficient Task Transfer for HLS DSE (opens in a new tab)
- ICCAD '24: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, October 27-31, , New Jersey, USA, Article No.GNN-Based Performance Prediction of Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial IntelligenceHarnessing GNNs for Robust Representation Learning in High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD '24), September 9-11, , Salt Lake City, UT, USALearning to Compare Hardware Designs for High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of theLevelST: Stream-based Accelerator for Sparse Triangular Solver (opens in a new tab)
- 3, SeptemberPASTA: Programming and Automation Support for Scalable Task-Parallel HLS Programs on Modern Multi-Die FPGAs (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 23-27Q-Pilot: Field Programmable Qubit Array Compilation with Flying Ancillas (opens in a new tab)
202316 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 9-13A Comprehensive Automated Exploration Framework for Systolic Array Designs (opens in a new tab)
- eLife, 12:e78344, JanA hardware system for real time decoding of in vivo calcium imaging data (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of theCallipepla: Stream Centric Instruction Set and Mixed Precision for Accelerating Conjugate Gradient Solver (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of theCHARM: Composing Heterogeneous Accelerators for Matrix Multiply on Versal ACAP Architecture (opens in a new tab)
- Communications of the ACMDemocratizing Domain-Specific Computing (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and SystemsFlexCNN: An End-to-End Framework for Composing CNN Accelerators on FPGA (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and SystemsFPGA Acceleration of Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams with High-Level Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- 169-179, AprilFPGA-Based In-Vivo Calcium Image Decoding for Closed-Loop Feedback Applications (opens in a new tab)
- —Layout Synthesis for Near-Term Quantum Computing: Gap Analysis and Optimal Solution (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 9-13Lightning Talk: Scaling Up Quantum Compilation – Challenges and Opportunities (opens in a new tab)
- HotStorage ’23: Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, July , Boston, MANeSSA: Near-Storage Data Selection for Accelerated Machine Learning Training (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEEPoint of View: Micro/Nano Circuits and Systems Design and Design Automation: Challenges and Opportunities (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went54 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 3
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