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DONG KAI WANG

ECE Department, UIUC

Dong Kai Wang

About Me

I am a teaching assistant professor in the ECE department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am currently involved in the development of new courses in VLSI design and hardware verification. My research is primarily in the field of computer architecture.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 2020 - June 2023.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

January 2018 - May 2020.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

B.S. Computer Engineering

September 2014 - December 2017.

Research Interests:

Computer Architecture: CPU and accelerator microarchitectures, tools and methods to generalize hardware acceleration.

AI/ML for Systems and Architecture: ML for microarchitecture search, dynamic placement and routing, systems optimization.

Models of Computing: Non-conventional models of computing, emerging technologies.

Teaching

Fall 2024: ECE 391 - Computer Systems Engineering

Fall 2024: ECE 427 - Advanced VLSI System Design

Spring 2024: ECE 391 - Computer Systems Engineering

Spring 2024: ECE 425 - Introduction to VLSI System Design

Fall 2023: ECE 498 HK - Advanced VLSI System Design

Work Experience

Teaching Assistant Professor, UIUC

Aug 2023 - Present

Courses taught: ECE 427/498HK - Advanced VLSI Design.

Research Intern, AMD

May 2022 - Aug 2022

Used commercial architecture simulators to implement and evaluate PIM-based methods to improve memory access latency for general applications.

Research Intern, Google

May 2021 - Aug 2021

Developed a RTL-level hardware generation tool for RISC-V vector processors from high-level microarchitectural specifications and parameters.

Research Intern, IBM

May 2018 - Aug 2018

Worked on near-memory acceleration using the IBM ConTutto FPGA platform.

Research Assistant, UIUC

Feb 2017 - May 2023

Graduate researcher in the FAST Lab at ECE Illinois.

Publications

Tandem Processor: Grappling with Emerging Operators in Neural Networks

ASPLOS 2024

Soroush Ghodrati, Sean Kinzer, Hanyang Xu, Yoonsung Kim, Byung Hoon Ahn, Rohan Mahapatra, Dong Kai Wang, Lavanya Karthikeyan, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Nam Sung Kim, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh.

MESA: Microarchitecture Extensions for Spatial Architecture Generation

ISCA 2023

Dong Kai Wang, Jiaqi Lou, Naiyin Jin, Edwin Mascarenhas, Rohan Mahapatra, Sean Kinzer, Soroush Ghodrati, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Nam Sung Kim.

DiAG: A Dataflow-inspired Architecture for General-purpose Processors

ASPLOS 2021

Dong Kai Wang, Nam Sung Kim.

A²M: Approximate Algebraic Memory Using Polynomial Rings

ISLPED 2019

Dong Kai Wang, Nam Sung Kim.

AxMemo: Hardware-Compiler Codesign for Approximate Code Memoization

ISCA 2019

Zhenhong Liu, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Dong Kai Wang, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Nam Sung Kim.

Application-Transparent Near-Memory Processing Architecture with Memory Channel Network

MICRO 2018

Mohammad Alian, Seung Won Min, Hadi Asgharimoghaddam, Ashutosh Dhar, Dong Kai Wang, Thomas Roewer, Adam McPadden, Oliver O'Halloran, Deming Chen, Jinjun Xiong, Daehoon Kim, Wen-Mei W Hwu, Nam Sung Kim.

Professional Services

Reviewer: Integration, the VLSI Journal

2024

Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computers

2023

Treasurer: IEEE CEDA Central Illinois Chapter

2023-2024

Patents

US20240211393 - Leveraging Processing in Memory Registers as Victim Buffers