Huang Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Award

Assistant Professor Sitao Huang was recognized with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NFS). The CAREER Program supports early-career faculty with potential to serve as role models and lifelong leaders in research and education. NFS’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundation awarded Prof. Huang $650,000 for his project “CAREER: High-Level Synthesis and Compilation for Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Systems”.

As the complexity and diversity of modern computing workloads grow rapidly, existing computer systems with homogeneous processors or accelerators show critical limitations in computing these complex workloads. This creates the incentive to create the next generation of heterogeneous hardware acceleration systems with diverse processors and accelerators, such as CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs.

Prof. Huang’s project will develop an efficient complication and synthesis flow from high-level program, such as Python, to domain-specific reconfigurable heterogeneous acceleration systems.