Awards
Paper and Presentation Awards
MICRO 2022 Distinguished Artifact Award (October 2022)
Yannan Nellie Wu, Po-An Tsai, Angshuman Parashar, Vivienne Sze, Joel Emer
“Sparseloop: An Analytical Approach to Sparse Tensor Accelerator Modeling,” ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2022. [ paper PDF | project website LINK | code github ]
First Place, Graduate winner at the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals (May 2020)
ACM Student Research Competition at MICRO-52 – Gold Medal (October 2019)
Peter Li, Sertac Karaman, Vivienne Sze
Extension of paper:
“High-throughput Computation of Shannon Mutual Information on Chip,” Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), June 2019. [ paper PDF | poster PDF | slides PDF | video Link | supplementary material PDF ]
Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award (June 2019)
Amr Suleiman, Zhengdong Zhang, Luca Carlone, Sertac Karaman, Vivienne Sze
“Navion: A Fully Integrated Energy-Efficient Visual-Inertial Odometry Accelerator for Autonomous Navigation of Nano Drones,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), June 2018. [ paper PDF | slides PDF | poster PDF | project website LINK ]
MARC Best Poster and Pitch Award (January 2018)
IBM AI Research Week Outstanding Poster Award (September 2019)
Hsin-Yu Lai, Gladynel Saavedra Pena, Thomas Heldt, Vivienne Sze
H.-Y. Lai, G. Saavedra Peña, C. Sodini, T. Heldt, V. Sze, “Enabling Saccade Latency Measurements with Consumer-Grade Cameras,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2018. [ paper PDF | poster PDF ]
G. Saavedra Peña, H.-Y. Lai, V. Sze, T. Heldt, “Determination of saccade latency distributions using video recordings from consumer-grade devices,” IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), July 2018. [ paper PDF | poster PDF ]
2015 Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition – 3rd Place (June 2015)
Amr Suleiman, Vivienne Sze
“Energy-Efficient HOG-based Object Detection at 1080HD 60 fps with Multi-Scale Support,” IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), pp. 256-261, October 2014. [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]
Top 10% Paper Recognition at ICIP (September 2014)
Mehul Tikekar, Chao-Tsung Huang, Vivienne Sze, Anantha Chandrakasan
“Energy and Area-Efficient Hardware Implementation of HEVC Inverse Transform and Dequantization,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2100-2104, October 2014. [ paper PDF | slides PDF ]
Student Awards
Yu-Hsin Chen receives the 2019 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award, which recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer architecture, for his “contributions to efficient and flexible dataflows and architectures for deep learning acceleration.” [ link ]
Yu-Hsin Chen receives the 2018 Jin-Au Kong Doctoral Thesis Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis in Electrical Engineering at MIT [ link ]
“Architecture Design for Highly Flexible and Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Network Accelerators,” Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2018. [ thesis Link | defense video | slides PDF ]
- Peter Li receives the EECS MathWorks Fellowship for 2023-2024
- Tanner Andrulis is named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2023 [ link ]
- Soumya Sudhakar receives the 2021-2022 Accenture Fellowship [ link ]
- Soumya Sudhakar receives Best Presentation Award at the 2021 Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) for her work on “Balancing Actuation Energy and Computing Energy in Motion Planning” [ link ]
- Theia Henderson receives the first place 2020 David Adler Memorial Thesis Award for her MEng thesis entitled “A Continuous Approach to Information-Theoretic Exploration with Range Sensors” [ link ]
- Peter Li receives the 2020 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral (PGS D) [ link ]
- Soumya Sudhakar receives Best Presentation Award in the Control Theory and Algorithms Session at the LIDS Student Conference 2020 for her talk on “Balancing Actuation Energy and Computing Energy in Motion Planning” [ link ]
- Alan Cheng receives a 2020 MARC Best Pitch Award (top 5) for his work on “Depth Map Estimation and Compression for Low Power Time-of-Flight Imaging” [ link ]
- Alan Cheng receives a Best Poster Award at the Spring 2019 SuperUROP Showcase [ link ]
- James Noraky receives the 2019 MARC Best Pitch Award in the Energy Efficient AI category [ link ]
- Gladynel Saavedra Pena is named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018 [ link ]
- Diana Wofk receives the 2017-2018 SuperUROP Award for her work on “Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Network for Depth Prediction” [ link ]
- Yu-Hsin Chen receives the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2016-2017 [ link ]
- Yu-Hsin Chen receives the 2015 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship [ link ]
- Yu-Hsin Chen receives the 2015 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award [ link ]
