The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Sourav Dutta as an Assistant Professor, who joined UT Dallas in Fall 2023 and is joining the PRISM Center. Dr. Dutta brings extensive experience from academia and industry, Read more
We are delighted to welcome Professor Christopher Fletcher, Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is joining the PRISM Center. Professor Fletcher is a leading researcher in computer architecture with broad interests spanning security and domain-specific acceleration. He Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong and his co-authors, Chen Zhang, Zhenman Fang, Peipei Zhou, Peichen Pan for receiving the ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the paper titled “Caffeine: Towards uniformed representation and acceleration for deep convolutional neural networks” Read more
The 2025 Sustainable Future awardee is Professor Tajana Šimunić Rosing (University of California San Diego). As Director of the PRISM Center, Rosing’s focus is on HD computing, especially when paired with co-design of optimal hardware. Her research is enabling the quest for more energy Read more
The 2025 awardee, Professor Shimeng Yu (Georgia Institute of Technology), is recognized for pioneering system-technology co-optimization (STCO) and developing the NeuroSim simulator. His work models emerging memory technologies and advances efficient AI hardware design, bridging theory and practical implementation in collaboration with Read more
Jason Cong received the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service “for impactful research and entrepreneurial work on electronic design automation, quantum and customized computing, FPGA, and highly scalable algorithms.” The other six awardees include a university president, an US Air Force Major Read more
ACM has named Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the recipient of the 2024 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Cong is recognized for fundamental contributions Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Jason Cong for his paper titled “Optimizing FPGA-based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” published at the 23rd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’15) and co-authored with Chen Zhang, Peng Li, Guangyu Sun, Yijin Guan, Read more
Congratulations to Sayeef Salahuddin for winning the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award! The IEEE Technical Field Awards are among IEEE’s most prestigious. The Andrew S Grove Award recognizes an individual or team for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology. Salahuddin is Read more
Congratulations to Suman Datta on being honored for outstanding contributions to semiconductor research! SIA and SRC present the University Research Awards annually to professors who demonstrate excellence in advancing research in semiconductor technology and design. Professors Datta and Flynn will accept Read more