Chen Zhang / 张宸

Chen Zhang / 张宸

Assistant Professor, 博导

张宸 - 上海交通大学

Hiring

I am actively seeking talented and self-motivated students. There are 1 or 2 openings per year for future PhD candidates, 1 or 2 openings per year for master candidates, and multiple positions for interns. It’s always welcome to contact me via

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. From 2015 to 2016, he conducted academic research as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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

  • 2026 Mar. 3x ISCA, 2x DAC and 1x CVPR Paper get accepted!
  • 2026 Mar. ASPLOS’2026 paper have been nominated as Best Paper Candidates!
  • 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!
  • 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】

Selected Publications（Full List）

1. GPU架构与超节点系统设计

  • MoE-Hub: Taming Software Complexity for Seamless MoE Overlap with Hardware-Accelerated Communication on Multi-GPU Systems, ISCA 2026
  • Towards Compute-Aware In-Switch Computing for LLMs Tensor-Parallelism on Multi-GPU Systems, HPCA 2026
  • H^2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference, ISCA 2025 最佳论文奖

2. 低比特与稀疏AI计算加速

  • M^2XFP: A Metadata-Augmented Microscaling Data Format for Efficient Low-bit Quantization, ASPLOS 2026最佳论文提名
  • Dual-side Sparse Tensor Core, ISCA 2021
  • Balanced Sparsity for Efficient Dnn Inference on GPU, AAAI 2019NV Sparse TensorCore采用

3. 体系结构建模、仿真与设计自动化

  • DATIS: DRAM Architecture and Technology Integrated Simulation, ISEDA 2025 最佳论文奖
  • Caffeine: Toward uniformed representation and acceleration for deep convolutional neural networks, T-CAD 2018 Donald O. Pederson最佳论文奖十年回顾最具影响力论文奖
  • Optimizing FPGA-based accelerator design for deep convolutional neural networks, FPGA 2015 FPGA与可重构计算名人堂

Academic Awards

National/Social Honors

  • 中国计算机学会（CCF）科技成果奖·自然科学一等奖（排三），2025【Details】
  • 教育部科学研究优秀成果奖·自然科学二等奖（排四），2025

Personal Honors

  • 上海市“启源”青年学者，2025，上海市国资委【News】【Details】
  • WAIC 云帆奖·璀璨明星，2025，世界人工智能大会【Details】【SJTU News】
  • AIoTSys 青年科学家奖，2025，“一带一路”智能物联网国际合作联盟
  • World’s Most Influential Scholars / AI芯片技术全球最具影响力学者, AI-2000【Details】
  • World’s Top-2% Most Cited Scholars, 2021~present, Stanford【Details】
  • ChinaSys Rising Star Award 新星奖，2022，ACM SIGOPS China【Details】
  • Microsoft Research SSA 院长特别奖，2019，微软研究院

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