Illinois Grainger engineers made an impression this year at MICRO-57, the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture in Austin, Texas. ECE professsor Jian Huang was inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to computer architecture research over the last five years. Huang and his graduate students Yuqi Xue and Yiqi Liu also took home a Best Paper Runner-Up award at the event.
Written by Eleanor Wyllie
Professor Jian Huang
Illinois Grainger engineers made an impression this year at MICRO-57, the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture in Austin, Texas. Jian Huang, an electrical and computer engineering professor at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to computer architecture research over the last five years. Huang and his graduate students Yuqi Xue and Yiqi Liu also took home a Best Paper Runner-Up award at the event.
The MICRO symposium is a top-tier computer architecture conference and the flagship conference for microprocessor architecture. The symposium provides a forum for researchers in fields related to microarchitecture, compilers, chips and systems “for presenting, discussing and debating innovative microarchitecture ideas and techniques for advanced computing and communication systems.”
Professor Jian Huang was inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame.
Founded in 2008, the MICRO Hall of Fame recognizes authors with at least eight papers published in the MICRO symposium. This recognition highlights Huang’s consistent contributions to the field, covering different aspects of memory and storage architecture research, as well as his recent work on sustainable AI infrastructure. His contributions at MICRO span a wide range of research topics, including computational storage, near-data computing, memory persistency models, accelerator-centric storage, storage security, AI for storage architecture design, and accelerator virtualization.
“I’m grateful for my students, collaborators and mentors I have had the privilege to work with over the years,” said Huang of his MICRO Hall of Fame induction.
Professor Jian Huang (left) with co-authors Yuqi Xue and Yiqi Liu also received the Best Paper Runner-Up award at MICRO-57.
Last year, Huang received the inaugural ACM SIGMICRO Early Career Award for pioneering contributions to persistent memory, storage architectures and systems. His current research focuses on building sustainable AI infrastructure and platforms, and using computer architecture and system techniques to accelerate AI-driven knowledge discovery and retrieval.
Huang’s team also won a Best Paper Runner-Up award at the conference — an honor presented to just 3 out of 497 submissions. Their paper "Hardware-Assisted Virtualization of Neural Processing Units for Cloud Platforms" explores how we can support AI chips in cloud computing today. This is the first work to address the system and architectural challenges of virtualizing neural process units like Google TPUs for cloud computing.