Xiaofeng Hou

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). At SJTU, I’m a member of Emerging Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) and Sustainable Architecture and Infrastructure Lab (SAIL). Prior to joining SJTU, I worked with Prof. Kwang-Ting CHENG at the AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I earned my PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the joint supervision of Prof. Chao Li and Prof. Minyi Guo. I earned my BS degree from Dalian University of Technology (with honors).

I am working on deploying and implementing efficient and sustainable computer architectures and systems. My primary research focus is on developing efficient system and architecture co-design techniques for intelligent computing platforms spanning different scales. These platforms range from autonomous embedded systems (AES) for Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) to advanced datacenters including microscale, hyperscale, and hybrid datacenters. I am also interested in studying and understanding their unique non-computational and computational requirements. As a result, my research encompasses a wide range of topics such as power and energy management, AI infrastructures, automated architecture and system design, sustainable computing, carbon neutrality, etc.

A Message for Prospective Students:

I’m looking for bright and self-motivated PhD, Master and Undergraduate students who have a strong interest in computer architecture and system design.

If you want to work with me (or just discuss your brilliant idea with me), please feel free to send me an email [hou-xf (at) cs.sjtu.edu.cn] along with your CV to arrange an appointment.

News

Jul 11, 2024 Paper A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things was selected for the Best Paper Session in ISCA 2024 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)! Preprint coming soon.
Jun 22, 2024 Paper CPM: A Cross-layer Power Management Facility to Enable Highly-efficient Real-time AIoT System received the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award in IWQoS 2024 (IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service)! Preprint coming soon.
Mar 23, 2024 We will host the First International Workshop on Acceleration and Optimization of Multi-modal Computing (AOMC 2024) @Co-located with ISCA 2024 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2024.
Mar 21, 2024 Paper A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things accepted to ISCA (The 51st International Symposium on Computer Architecture)! Preprint coming soon.
Sep 29, 2023 Paper SMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal Computing accepted to RTSS (IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium)! Preprint coming soon.
Sep 11, 2023 The project code and tutorials for MMBench are now available!.
Aug 22, 2023 Paper MMBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Multi-modal DNNs and Understanding Their Hardware-Software Implications accepted to the top conference on workload characterization IISWC (IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization).
May 4, 2023 Paper MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits accepted as one of Best Paper Nominates (4/164)!.
May 1, 2023 Paper MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits accepted to Euro-Par (The International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing)! Preprint coming soon.
Mar 11, 2023 Paper Architecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT Systems accepted to ISCA (The 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture)! Preprint coming soon.
Oct 19, 2022 Paper Characterizing and Understanding End-to-End Multi-modal Neural Networks on GPUs accepted to IEEE CAL (The IEEE Computer Architecture Letters)! Preprint coming soon.
Mar 12, 2022 Paper Enabling Efficient Request Management through Microservice Level Parallelism accepted to IPDPS (The IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium)! Preprint coming soon.
Nov 26, 2021 DataCLUE covered on the AINLP!
Nov 18, 2021 Preprint of DataCLUE, a benchmark suite for data-centeric NLP, is now availiable on Arxiv! Project code coming soon!
Jan 19, 2021 I have joined ACCESS as a Post-doctoral Fellow, working with Prof. CHENG!
Aug 25, 2020 I passed my PhD defense! Preprint of the dissertation coming soon. :sparkles: :smile:
Aug 21, 2020 Paper ANT-Man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era accepted to SC (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis)! Preprint coming soon.
Oct 2, 2019 I am a Visiting Scholar as a Junior Specialist in University of California Riverside, advised by Prof. Shaolei Ren.
Aug 9, 2018 Paper Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About It received the Best Paper Award (4/264) in ICCD (International Conference on Computer Design)! Preprint coming soon.

Selected Publications

  1. TACO
    A2: Towards Accelerator Level Parallelism for Autonomous Micromobility Systems
    Lingyu Sun, Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Xinkai Wang, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo
    In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 2024
  2. SC
    Boosting Data Center Performance via Intelligently Managed Multi-backend Disaggregated Memory
    Jing Wang, Hanzhang Yang, Chao Li, Yiming Zhuansun, Yuan Wang, Cheng Xu, Xiaofeng Hou, Minyi Guo, Yang Hu, and Yaqian Zhao
    In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis 2024
  3. TPDS
    WASP: Efficient Power Management Enabling Workload-Aware, Self-Powered AIoT Devices
    Xiaofeng Hou, Xuehan Tang, Jiacheng Liu, Chao Li, Luhong Liang, and Kwang-ting Cheng
    In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2024
  4. IWQoS Best Paper Nominate
    CPM: A Cross-layer Power Management Facility to Enable Highly-efficient Real-time AIoT Systems
    Xiaofeng Hou, Peng Tang, Tongqiao Xu, Cheng Xu, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo
    In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service 2024
  5. ISCA Best Paper Nominate
    A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things
    Xiaofeng Hou*, Tongqiao Xu*, Chao Li, Cheng Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Yang Hu, Jieru Zhao, Jingwen Leng, Kwang-ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo
    In Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2024
  6. RTSS
    SMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal Computing
    Xiaofeng Hou, Peng Tang, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Cheng Xu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo
    In IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2023
  7. Euro-Par Best Paper Nominate
    MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits
    Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Xuehan Tang, Chao Li, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Li Li, and Minyi Guo
    In European Conference on Parallel Processing, 2023
  8. ISCA
    Architecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT Systems
    Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Xuehan Tang, Chao Li, Jia Chen, Luhong Liang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo
    In Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2023
  9. SC
    ANT-man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era
    Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Lu Zhang, Yang Hu, and Minyi Guo
    In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2020
  10. AAAI
    Fine-Grained Machine Teaching with Attention Modeling
    Jiacheng Liu, Xiaofeng Hou, and Feilong Tang
    In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
  11. ICCD Best Paper Award
    Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About It
    Xiaofeng Hou, Luoyao Hao, Chao Li, Quan Chen, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo
    In International Conference on Computer Design, 2018
  12. ISCA
    Power Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data Centers
    Chao Li, Zhenhua Wang*, Xiaofeng Hou*, Haopeng Chen, Xiaoyao Liang, and Minyi Guo
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2016