张宸 - 上海交通大学
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Biography
Chen Zhang is now a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Ph.D. advisor at the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research mainly focuses on ML/AI processors and accelerators, especially FPGA and GPU architectures.
He received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Jason Cong and Prof. Guangyu Sun. From 2015 to 2016, he conducted academic research as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining SJTU (2017-2023), he worked at Microsoft Research (as a Senior Researcher) and later at Alibaba T-Head Semiconductor (as a chip architect), where he led the development of several high-impact AI processors and systems both in China and internationally.
He has published about 40 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, including ISCA, MICRO, FPGA, DAC, and IEEE TCAD, receiving 5 Best Paper Awards (FPGA’15, TCAD’19, MICRO’22, ISEDA’25, ISCA’25) and 2 Ten-year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award (FPGA’15, ICCAD’16). His work has been cited over 5,600 times on Google Scholar, with a single paper cited more than 2,600 times. He has been honored as a member of the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame, named an AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar in the World, recognized as a Top 2% Most-Cited Researcher by Stanford and Elsevier, and received the WAIC YunFan Award, among other accolades. He is also a recipient of the Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Program and Shanghai Qiyuan Young Scientist Program.
News
- 2025 Nov. 2x HPCA and 1x ASPLOS Paper get accepted!
- 2025 Nov. ICCAD’2016 paper wins
Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award! - 2025 Oct. 祝贺同学们荣获“挑战杯”中国青年科技创新“揭榜挂帅”擂台赛
特等奖!【Details】 - 2025 June ISCA’2025 paper wins
Best Paper Award! - 2025 May. ISEDA’2025 paper wins
Best Paper Award!【Details】 - 2025 Mar. FPGA’2015 paper is inducted into the Class of 2025 FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing
Hall of Fame！【UCLA News，SIC News，SJTU News，SJTU News】 - 2019 Jan. T-CAD’2018 paper has win
Donald O. Pederson Best Paper! 【UCLA News，PKU News】
Selected Publications（Full List）
- Towards Compute-Aware In-Switch Computing for LLMs Tensor-Parallelism on Multi-GPU Systems, HPCA, 2026 (
Multi-GPU超节点架构) - H^2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference, ISCA, 2025 (
xPU-PIM架构联合设计优化,最佳论文奖) - Dual-side sparse tensor core, ISCA, 2021 (
GPU稀疏张量运算单元) - Caffeine: Toward uniformed representation and acceleration for deep convolutional neural networks, T-CAD, 2018 (
AI架构设计EDA方法,十年回顾最佳论文) - Optimizing FPGA-based accelerator design for deep convolutional neural networks, FPGA, 2015 (
CNN加速器设计建模,十年回顾最佳论文)
Academic Awards
- ICCAD Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award 十年回顾最佳论文奖，2025【UCLA News, SJTU News】
- ISCA Best Paper Award 最佳论文奖，2025【PKU News】
- ISEDA Best Paper Award 最佳论文奖，2025【Details】
- FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame 名人堂，2025【SJTU News，UCLA News，TCFPGA Web】
- MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mention 年度亮点论文优胜奖，2022
- Donald O. Pederson Best Paper 最佳论文奖，2019【IEEE News，UCLA News，PKU News】
- FPGA Best Paper Nomination 最佳论文提名奖，2015 【Details】
- FPGA会议历史（自1992年以来）高被引论文（第一名），2023~present【Details
Personal Honors
- 上海市“启源”青年学者，2025，上海市国资委
- AIoTSys 青年科学家奖，2025，“一带一路”智能物联网国际合作联盟
- WAIC 云帆奖·璀璨明星，2025，世界人工智能大会【Details】
- ChinaSys Rising Star Award 新星奖，2022，ACM SIGOPS China【Details】
- World’s Top-2% Most Cited Scholars, 2021~present, Stanford【Details】
- World’s Most Influential Scholars (Top 2), 2021~present, 全球最具影响力学者, AI-2000【Details】
- Microsoft Research SSA 院长特别奖，2019，微软研究院
Team Honors
- 科技成果奖·自然科学一等奖（排名第三），2025，中国计算机学会（CCF）【Details】
- 科学研究优秀成果奖·自然科学二等奖（排名第四），2025，教育部
Teaching Awards
- “挑战杯”中国青年科技创新“揭榜挂帅”擂台赛，特等奖，2025，共青团中央【Details】
- 第九届全国大学生集成电路创新创业大赛，二等奖，2025，工信部
Community Service Awards
- ICCAD Best Reviewer Award 最佳审稿人奖，2025，ICCAD Committee