VAST lab at UCLA
The VAST lab at UCLA investigates cutting-edge research topics at the intersection of VLSI technologies, design automation, architecture and compiler optimization at multiple scales, from micro-architecture building blocks, to heterogeneous compute nodes, and scalable data centers. Current focuses include architecture and design automation for emerging technologies, customizable domain-specific computing with applications to multiple domains, such as imaging processing, bioinformatics, data mining and machine learning.
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Prof. Cong gave a keynote speech entitled “Layout Synthesis for Quantum Computing: Gap Analysis and Optimal Solution” at the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI...
Prof. Cong gave a keynote speech entitled...
Jie Wang was selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Awards by UCLA CS department. Jie is currently a sixth-year PhD student under the supervision of Prof.Jason Cong. He received his bachelor degree...
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Our Projects
Quantum computing (QC) has been shown, in theory, to hold huge advantages over classical computing. However, there remains many engineering challenges in the implementation of real-world QC applications. In order to devide-and-conquer, we can split the task as below.
...Heterogeneous computing with extensive use of accelerators, such as FPGAs and GPUs, has shown great promise to bring in orders of magnitude improvement in computing efficiency for a wide range of applications. The latest advances in industry have led to highly integrated heterogeneous hardware...
Direction 1: Real-Time Neural Signal Processing for Closed-Loop Neurofeedback Applications.
Recent work in this project got the Best Paper Award in ISLPED'18, and...
In the Big Data era, the volume of data is exploding, putting forward a new challenge to the existing computer system. Traditionally, the computer system is designed to be computing-centric, in which the data from IO devices are transferred and then processed by the CPU. However, the data...
In this project, we explore efficient algorithms and architectures for state-of-the-art deep learning based applications. In the first work, we are exploring learning algorithms and acceleration techniques on graph learning algorithms. The second work, Caffeine, offers a uniformed...
In the era of big data, many applications present siginificant compuational challenges. For example, in the field of bio-infomatics, the computation demand for personalized cancer treatment is prohibitively high for the general-purpose computing technologies, as tumor heterogeneity...
To meet ever-increasing computing needs and overcome power density limitations, the computing industry has entered theera of parallelization, with tens to hundreds of computing cores integrated into a single...
Software Releases
Many quantum computers have constraints on the connections between qubits. However, a quantum program may not conform to these constraints. Thus, it is necessary to perform 'layout synthesis for quantum computing', LSQC, which transforms quantum programs prior to execution so that the...
https://github.com/Xilinx/merlin-compiler
We are excited that Xilinx has made the decision to open-source the Merlin compiler under the Apache license. The Merlin compiler was originally developed by the Falcon Computing Solutions, a...