VVIP Lab
Vertically-integrated VLSI Information Processing
Tutorial session in CICC
Prof. Kang is giving a talk in CICC23 educational session for the topic of "In-memory Computing: Is this a good solution for you?"
Paper accepted in CICC23
"AI Processor with Sparsity-adaptive Real-time Dynamic Frequency Modulation for Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers," has been accepted in "IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)" which has been collaborated by three MS students in ECE284 course,
Yugandhar Khodke, Sadhana Sundaram, and Yidong Li for the tape-out and silicon measurments. Congratulations !
Intel Rising Star Award 2022
Prof. Kang won "Intel Rising Star Award" of this year.
TPC in DATE 2023
Dr. Kang is serving as a TPC (technical program committee) in Date (Design, Automation, and Test in Europe) 2023 for "Power-efficient and Sustainable Computing" track.
Paper accepted in MICRO22
"Sparse Attention Acceleration with Approximate In-Memory Pruning (tentative title)" has been accepted in "International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2022", which has been collaborated with Amir Yazdanbakhsh in Google research. Congratulations, Amir, Ashkan and Zheng !
Session chair in DAC 2022
Dr. Kang is serving as a chair of "In-memory computing" session in Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022.
New funded project
New research project launched supported by Qualcomm through UCSD MICS center.
MS Defense
Congratulations on Zheng's successful MS defense and his new start in Google !
First tape-out
VVIP lab's first tape-out for a large-scale digital AI accelerator. Congratulations, Sadhana and Yugandhar !
Paper accepted in ISCA22
VVIP lab's very first paper "Accelerating Attention through Gradient-Based Learned Runtime Pruning" has been accepted in "International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2022)", which has been first authored by MS student Zheng Li, who has been working since 2021 SRIP (Spring/Summer Research Internship Program) project. Congratulations, Zheng !
TPC in DATE 2022
Dr. Kang is serving as a TPC (technical program committee) in Date (Design, Automation, and Test in Europe) 2022 for "Power-efficient and Sustainable Computing" track.
New collaborated project with Qualcomm
New research project launched with Qualcomm through UCSD MICS center.
DAC 2021 chair of Approximate Computing session
Dr. Kang is serving as a chair of "Approximate Computing" session in Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021.
TPC in DATE 2021
Dr. Kang is serving as a TPC (technical program committee) in Date (Design, Automation, and Test in Europe) 2021 for "Power-efficient and Sustainable Computing" track.
VVIP lab launched on Nov. 1st 2020.
Dr. Mingu Kang joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering as an assistant professor on Nov. 1st 2020.
UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department