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
Oct 21, 2024 | Two papers were selected for the Best Paper candidates in ICCD 2024 (International Conference on Computer Design)! Preprint coming soon. |
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Aug 21, 2024 | TACO and RTSS have accepted our work on system optimizations for heterogeneous autonomous driving platforms! Preprint coming soon. |
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. |
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
- ICCD Best Paper NominateAutoVCoder: A Systematic Framework for Automated Verilog Code Generation using LLMsIn IEEE International Conference on Computer Design 2024
- ICCD Best Paper NominateContinuous Energy Efficiency Optimization for Autonomous Embedded Systems Using Shadow CyclesIn IEEE International Conference on Computer Design 2024
- TCImproving Efficiency in Multi-modal Autonomous Embedded Systems through Adaptive GatingIn IEEE Transactions on Computers 2024
- RTSSJigsaw: Taming BEV-centric Perception on Dual-SoC for Autonomous DrivingIn EEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2024
- TACOA2: Towards Accelerator Level Parallelism for Autonomous Micromobility SystemsIn ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 2024
- TPDSWASP: Efficient Power Management Enabling Workload-Aware, Self-Powered AIoT DevicesIn IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2024
- IWQoS Best Paper NominateCPM: A Cross-layer Power Management Facility to Enable Highly-efficient Real-time AIoT SystemsIn IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service 2024
- ISCA Best Paper NominateA Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous ThingsIn Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2024
- RTSSSMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal ComputingIn IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2023
- Euro-Par Best Paper NominateMMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network ExitsIn European Conference on Parallel Processing, 2023
- ISCAArchitecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT SystemsIn Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2023
- SCANT-man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice EraIn International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2020
- ICCD Best Paper AwardPower Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About ItIn International Conference on Computer Design, 2018
- ISCAPower Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data CentersInternational Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2016