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

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

ISCA
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

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@inproceedings{xuisca2024, abbr = {ISCA}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Xu, Tongqiao and Li, Chao and Xu, Cheng and Liu, Jiacheng and Hu, Yang and Zhao, Jieru and Leng, Jingwen and Cheng, Kwang-ting and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture}, year = {2024} }
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

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@inproceedings{hou2023rtss, abbr = {RTSS}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {SMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal Computing}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Tang, Peng and Li, Chao and Liu, Jiacheng and Xu, Cheng and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium}, year = {2023} }
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

Bib
@inproceedings{hou2023mmexit, abbr = {Euro-Par}, awd = {Best Paper Nominate}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Xuehan and Li, Chao and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Li, Li and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {European Conference on Parallel Processing,}, year = {2023} }
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

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@inproceedings{hou2023architecting, abbr = {ISCA}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {Architecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT Systems}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Xuehan and Li, Chao and Chen, Jia and Liang, Luhong and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture}, year = {2023} }
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

Bib
@inproceedings{hou2020ant, abbr = {SC}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {ANT-man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Li, Chao and Liu, Jiacheng and Zhang, Lu and Hu, Yang and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,}, year = {2020} }
AAAI
Fine-Grained Machine Teaching with Attention Modeling

Jiacheng Liu, Xiaofeng Hou, and Feilong Tang

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

Bib
@inproceedings{liu2020fine, abbr = {AAAI}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {Fine-Grained Machine Teaching with Attention Modeling}, author = {Liu, Jiacheng and Hou, Xiaofeng and Tang, Feilong}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,}, year = {2020} }
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

Bib
@inproceedings{hou2018power, abbr = {ICCD}, awd = {Best Paper Award}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About It}, author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Hao, Luoyao and Li, Chao and Chen, Quan and Zheng, Wenli and Guo, Minyi}, booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Design,}, year = {2018} }
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

Bib
@article{li2016power, abbr = {ISCA}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, title = {Power Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data Centers}, author = {Li, Chao and Wang*, Zhenhua and Hou*, Xiaofeng and Chen, Haopeng and Liang, Xiaoyao and Guo, Minyi}, journal = {International Symposium on Computer Architecture,}, year = {2016} }