I am a teaching assistant professor and researcher in computer architecture in the ECE department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am currently leading efforts to develop hardware frameworks for machine learning in computer architecture, and a new open-source hardware foundation at UIUC. My research is supported by industry sponsors: Samsung, AMD, and Google. I am also currently involved in the development of new courses in VLSI design and hardware verification.
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 2020 - June 2023.
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
January 2018 - May 2020.
B.S. Computer Engineering
September 2014 - December 2017.
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.
Spring 2025: ECE 411 - Computer Organization and Design
Spring 2025: ECE 425 - Introduction to VLSI System Design
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
Aug 2023 - Present
Courses taught: ECE 391, 411 (Computer Architecture), 425, 427/498HK (Advanced VLSI Design).
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Used commercial architecture simulators to implement and evaluate PIM-based methods to improve memory access latency for general applications.
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Developed a RTL-level hardware generation tool for RISC-V vector processors from high-level microarchitectural specifications and parameters.
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Worked on near-memory acceleration using the IBM ConTutto FPGA platform.
Feb 2017 - May 2023
Graduate researcher in the FAST Lab at ECE Illinois.
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.
ISCA 2023
Dong Kai Wang, Jiaqi Lou, Naiyin Jin, Edwin Mascarenhas, Rohan Mahapatra, Sean Kinzer, Soroush Ghodrati, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Nam Sung Kim.
ASPLOS 2021
Dong Kai Wang, Nam Sung Kim.
ISLPED 2019
Dong Kai Wang, Nam Sung Kim.
ISCA 2019
Zhenhong Liu, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Dong Kai Wang, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Nam Sung Kim.
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.
2024
2023
2023-2024