# Team (preview A: grid/compact) ## Faculty [### David Brooks ](/people/david-brooks) Haley Family Professor of Computer Science ![David Brooks](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-10/david_brooks_2024.jpg?itok=WaIgK6iO) [### Gu-Yeon Wei ](/people/gu-yeon-wei) Robert and Suzanne Case Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ![Gu-Yeon Wei : Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/vlsiarch/files/guyeon_wei-e1402425890841.jpg?itok=iX4xI7DX) ## Staff [### Glenn Holloway ](/people/glenn-holloway) Research Staff ![Glenn Holloway](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/vlsiarch/files/glenn_holloway-e1402500665987.jpg?itok=S6A20Xji) ## Current Postdocs [### Matt Adiletta ](/people/matt-adiletta)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026–present Ph.D. 2026 ![Matt Adiletta](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/vlsiarch/files/img-people-adiletta.jpeg?itok=BMWtRbgQ) ## Current Students [### Nestor Dario Cuevas ](/people/nestor-dario-cuevas)Ph.D. Student, 2021–present ![Nestor Dario](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/vlsiarch/files/img-people-cuevas.jpeg?itok=4yArXs6g) [### Mariam Elgamal ](/people/mariam-elgamal)Ph.D. Student, 2021–present ![Mariam Elgamal](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-10/mariam_elgamal_headshot.jpg?itok=LmAP5nzW) [### Alicia Golden ](/people/alicia-golden)Ph.D. Student, 2022–present ![picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/vlsiarch/files/welcome_picture_2.jpeg?itok=H2K-5cOE) [### Jennifer Zhou ](/people/jennifer-zhou)Ph.D. Student, 2023–present ![Jennifer Zhou](/sites/g/files/omnuum11281/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-10/jennifer_zhou_headshot.jpg?itok=HVwZUnYE) [### Kevin Kim ](/people/kevin-kim)Ph.D. Student, 2024–present person [### Haebin Do ](/people/haebin-do)Ph.D. Student, 2025–present person [### Kevin He ](/people/kevin-he)Ph.D. Student, 2025–present person [### Lauren Malek ](/people/lauren-malek)Ph.D. Student, 2026–present person ## Former Students (PhD) [### Matt Adiletta ](/people/matt-adiletta)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026–present Ph.D. 2026 [### Yuji Chai ](/people/yuji-chai) Ph.D. 2025 “Resource Optimization of Emerging Machine Learning Workloads on Edge Devices” Current: Co-founder / Chief AI Officer at Stochastic AI [### Yunho Jin ](/people/yunho-jin)Ph.D. 2025 “Memory-centric AI: Optimizing for Memory System in Large-scale AI” Current: Software Engineer at Google [### Samuel Hsia ](/people/samuel-hsia) Ph.D. 2024 “Architecting Efficient, Large-Scale AI: An Algorithm-System Co-Design Approach” Current: Research Scientist at Meta (FAIR) [### Max Lam ](/people/max-lam)Ph.D. 2024 “Systems and Algorithms for Efficient, Secure and Private Machine Learning Inference” Current: Apple [### Iulian Brumar ](/people/iulian-brumar) Ph.D. 2023 “Early-Stage Non-Conventional Hardware Accelerator Discovery via Optimization Methods and Compiler Analysis” Current: Senior AI Compiler Engineer, Qualcomm [### Siming Ma ](/people/siming-ma) Ph.D. 2023 “Device, Circuit, and Algorithm Co-Design for Efficient Neural Network Inference in Hardware” [### Thierry Tambe ](/people/thierry-tambe) Ph.D. 2023 “Architecting High Performance Silicon Systems for Accurate and Efficient On-Chip Deep Learning” Current: Assistant Professor, Stanford University [### Udit Gupta ](/people/udit-gupta) Ph.D. 2022 “Enabling High Performance, Efficient, and Sustainable Deep Learning Systems At Scale” Current: Assistant Professor, Cornell University [### Lillie Pentecost ](/people/lillie-pentecost) [illian\_pentecost@g.harvard.edu](mailto:illian_pentecost@g.harvard.edu)Ph.D. 2022 “Enabling Emerging, Heterogeneous Memory Systems” Current: Assistant Professor, Amherst College [### Emma Wang ](/people/emma-wang)Ph.D. 2019 “Performance Analysis for Machine Learning Applications” Current: Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google [### Brandon Reagen ](/people/brandon-reagen)Ph.D. 2018 “On the Design and Optimization of Specialized Hardware with Applications in Deep Learning” Current: Assistant Professor, New York University [### Sam Xi ](/people/sam-xi)Ph.D. 2018 “Advancing System-Level Analysis and Design of Specialized Architectures” Current: Staff Software Engineer at Google [### Svilen Kanev ](/people/svilen-kanev)Ph.D. 2016 “Efficiency in warehouse-scale computers: a datacenter tax study” Current: Software Engineer at Google [### Sae Kyu Lee ](/people/sae-kyu-lee)Ph.D. 2016 “High Efficiency Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors using Voltage Stacking” Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2017 Current: EnCharge AI [### Mario Lok ](/people/mario-lok)Ph.D. 2016 “Power Electronics Design for an Insect-Scaled Flapping Wing Robot with High Voltage Integrated Circuits” Current: Skydio [### Yakun Sophia Shao ](/people/yakun-sophia-shao)Ph.D. 2016 “Design and Modeling of Specialized Architectures” Current: Associate Professor, UC Berkeley [### Kevin Brownell ](/people/kevin-brownell)Ph.D. 2015 “Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization with HELIX-RC” Current: Staff Software Engineer at Google [### Tao Tong ](/people/tao-tong)Ph.D. 2015 “Improving SoC Power Delivery With Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulators” Current: Co-founder, Kolmostar [### Michael Lyons ](/people/michael-lyons)Ph.D. 2013 “Toward a Hardware Accelerated Future” Current: Staff Software Engineer at Dropbox [### Wonyoung Kim ](/people/wonyoung-kim)Ph.D. 2012 “Reducing Power Loss, Cost and Complexity of SoC Power Delivery using Integrated 3-Level Voltage Regulators” Current: Co-founder/CEO of Lion Semiconductor, acquired by Cirrus Logic [### Michael Karpelson ](/people/michael-karpelson)Ph.D. 2011 “Power electronics design for a flapping-wing robotic insect” Current: Senior Staff Electrical Engineer – Robotics, Harvard SEAS [### Krishna Rangan ](/people/krishna-rangan)Ph.D. 2011 “Hardware-Based Thread Scheduling for Power-Efficient and Variation-Resilient Chip Multiprocessors” Current: Systems/SoC Architect at Meta [### Ankur Agrawal ](/people/ankur-agrawal)Ph.D. 2010 “Design of high speed I/O interfaces for high performance microprocessors” Current: Hardware Engineer, Google [### Vijay Janapa Reddi ](/people/vijay-janapa-reddi)Ph.D. 2010 “Software-Assisted Hardware Reliability: Enabling Aggressive Timing Speculation Using Run-Time Feedback from Hardware and Software” Current: Professor, Harvard University [### Hayun Chung ](/people/hayun-chung)Ph.D. 2009 “Design considerations for high-speed backplane transceivers with digital adaptive equalizers” Current: Associate Professor, Korea University (Sejong) [### Meeta Gupta ](/people/meeta-gupta)Ph.D. 2009 “Variation-aware processor architectures with aggressive operating margins” Current: Founder, Shumee [### Mark Hempstead ](/people/mark-hempstead)Ph.D. 2009 “Accelerator-Based Architectures for Wireless Sensor Network Applications” Current: Professor, Tufts University [### Xiaoyao Liang ](/people/xiaoyao-liang)Ph.D. 2009 “From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Joint Architecture and Circuit Resilience to Mitigate the Impact of Process Variations” Current: Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University [### Benjamin Lee ](/people/benjamin-lee)Ph.D. 2008 “Statistical Inference for Efficient Microarchitectural Analysis” Current: Professor, University of Pennsylvania [### Ruwan Ratnayake ](/people/ruwan-ratnayake)Ph.D. 2008 “A High-Throughput Maximum a posteriori Probability Detector for Iterative Detection” Current: Senior Principal Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor [### Amber Tan ](/people/amber-tan)Ph.D. 2006 “Design of Noise-Robust Clock and Data Recovery Using an Adaptive-Bandwidth Mixed PLL/DLL” Current: Marvell ## Former Postdocs [### Abdulrahman Mahmoud ](/people/abdulrahman-mahmoud) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2024 [### Devashree Tripathy ](/people/devashree-tripathy)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2022 [### Jeff Zhang ](/people/jeff-zhang)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2022 [### Alex Hankin ](/people/alex-hankin) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022 [### Chun-Feng Wu ](/people/chun-feng-wu)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2022 [### Sai Qian Zhang ](/people/sai-qian-zhang) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022 [### Tianyu Jia ](/people/tianyu-jia) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2021 [### Glenn Ko ](/people/glenn-ko) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2021 [### Georgios Zacharopoulos ](/people/georgios-zacharopoulos) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2021 [### Kshitij Bhardwaj ](/people/kshitij-bhardwaj)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2020 [### Yuan Yao ](/people/yuan-yao) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2020 [### Marco Donato ](/people/marco-donato) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2020 [### Burçin Çakır ](/people/burcin-cakir)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019–2020 [### Wooseok Choi ](/people/wooseok-choi)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2019 [### Sae Kyu Lee ](/people/sae-kyu-lee)Ph.D. 2016 “High Efficiency Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors using Voltage Stacking” Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2017 Current: EnCharge AI [### Paul Whatmough ](/people/paul-whatmough) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017 [### Rafael Garibotti ](/people/rafael-garibotti)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2015 [### Simone Campanoni ](/people/simone-campanoni)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009–2015 [### Silvia Zhang ](/people/silvia-zhang)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2015 [### Timothy Jones ](/people/timothy-jones)Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010 ## Former Group Members [### Bob Adolf ](/people/bob-adolf) 2012–2022 [### Yong-Cheol Bae ](/people/yong-cheol-bae)2002–2005 [### Simon Chaput ](/people/simon-chaput) [### Xiao Guo ](/people/xiao-guo)2010–2012 [### Jian Han ](/people/jian-han)2008–2010 [### Thomas (Hsea-Ching) Hsueh ](/people/thomas-hsea-ching-hsueh) 2016–2018 [### Yeongil Ko ](/people/yeongil-ko) [yeongil\_ko@g.harvard.edu](mailto:yeongil_ko@g.harvard.edu)2019–2022 [### Hyunkwang Lee ](/people/hyunkwang-lee)2013–2016 [### Andrew Liu ](/people/andrew-liu)2004–2009 [### Judson Porter ](/people/judson-porter)2009–2012 [### Saketh Rama ](/people/saketh-rama) 2015–2022 [### Kate Thurmer ](/people/kate-thurmer)2019–2022 [### Andrew Tohmc ](/people/andrew-tohmc)2003–2005 [### Nikhil Tripathi ](/people/nikhil-tripathi)2004 [### Amanda Tseng ](/people/amanda-tseng)2010–2013 [### Mark Wilkening ](/people/mark-wilkening) 2016–2022 [### En-Yu (Daniel) Yang ](/people/en-yu-daniel-yang) [enyu\_yang@g.harvard.edu](mailto:enyu_yang@g.harvard.edu)2018–2021