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Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality
Ethan Chen, Sushant Kondguli, Carll Marshall, Yuhao Zhu

SIGGRAPH Asia (TOG) 2025

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PowerGS: Display-Rendering Power Co-Optimization for Neural Rendering in Power-Constrained XR Systems
Weikai Lin, Sushant Kondguli, Carll Marshall, Yuhao Zhu

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

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Dynamic Sparse Training of Diagonally Sparse Networks
Abhishek Tyagi, Arjun Iyer, William H Renninger, Christopher Kanan, Yuhao Zhu

ICML 2025

Latent Speech Representations Learned Through Self-Supervised Learning Predict Listeners' Generalization of Adaptation Across Talkers
Zhengyang Jin, Yuhao Zhu, T. Florian Jaeger

CogSci 2025

Diagonal Structured Sparsity for Efficient Optical and GPU-Based Neural Networks
Abhishek Tyagi, Arjun Iyer, Christopher Kanan, William H Renninger, Yuhao Zhu

CLEO 2025

Offset-Diagonal Computing for Large-scale, Compact, Efficient, and Sparsity-enabled Optical Processors
Arjun Iyer, Abhishek Tyagi, Liam Young, Yuhao Zhu, William H Renninger

CLEO 2025

Wavelength-Multiplexed Diagonal-Based Photonic Edge-Computing Architecture
Arjun Iyer, Abhishek Tyagi, Yuhao Zhu, William H Renninger

CLEO 2025

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Co-Designed Pre-capture Privacy Optics for Computer Vision
Carlos Mauricio Villegas Burgos, Yu Feng, Pei Xiong, Yuhao Zhu, Nick Vamivakas

Optical Express 2025

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SnapPix: Efficient-Coding–Inspired In-Sensor Compression for Edge Vision
Weikai Lin, Tianrui Ma, Adith Boloor, Yu Feng, Ruofan Xing, Xuan Zhang, Yuhao Zhu

DAC 2025

Lumina: Real-Time Neural Rendering by Exploiting Computational Redundancy
Yu Feng, Weikai Lin, Yuge Cheng, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Chen Chen, Shixuan Sun, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2025

SEAL: A Single-Event Architecture for In-Sensor Visual Localization
Ryan Hou, Thomas Twomey, Vasileios Milionis, Evangelos Dikopoulos, Tianrui Ma, Yuhao Zhu, Georgios Tzimpragos

ISCA 2025

StreamGrid: Streaming Point Cloud Analytics via Compulsory Splitting and Deterministic Termination
Yu Feng, Zheng Liu, Weikai Lin, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Zhezhi He, Jieru Zhao, Yuhao Zhu

ASPLOS 2025

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MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
Weikai Lin, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu
★ Best Paper Award

ASPLOS 2025

KINDRED: Heterogeneous Split-Lock Architecture for Safe Autonomous Machines
Yiming Gan, Jingwen Leng, Bo Yu, Yuhao Zhu

TACO 2025

Autonomy 2.0: The Quest for Economies of Scale
Shuang Wu, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

CACM 2025

PrivateEye: In-Sensor Privacy Preservation Through Optical Feature Separation
Adith Boloor, Weikai Lin, Tianrui Ma, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu, Xuan Zhang

WACV 2025

VQ-LLM: High-performance Code Generation for Vector Quantization Augmented LLM Inference
Zihan Liu, Xinhao Luo, Junxian Guo, Wentao Ni, Yangjie Zhou, Yue Guan, Cong Guo, Weihao Cui, Yu Feng, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu, Minjia Zhang, Jingwen Leng, Chen Jin

HPCA 2025

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CoolerSpace: A Language for Physically Correct and Computationally Efficient Color Programming
Ethan Chen, Jiwon Chang, Yuhao Zhu

OOPSLA 2024

The Vulnerability-Adaptive Protection Paradigm Toward Reliable Autonomous Machines
Zishen Wan, Yiming Gan, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yuhao Zhu

CACM 2024

Invited Paper: Imaging, Computing, and Human Perception: Three Agents to Usher in the Autonomous Machine Computing Era
Yuhao Zhu

ICCAD 2024

Invited Paper: Dataflow Accelerator Architecture for Autonomous Machine Computing
Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu, Bo Yu, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Guang R. Gao

ICCAD 2024

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Computational Trichromacy Reconstruction: Empowering the Color-Vision Deficient to Recognize Colors Using Augmented Reality
Yuhao Zhu, Ethan Chen, Colin Hascup, Yukang Yan, Gaurav Sharma

UIST 2024

Potamoi: Accelerating Neural Rendering via a Unified Streaming Architecture
Yu Feng, Weikai Lin, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Han Zhao, Xiaofeng Hou, Jieru Zhao, Yuhao Zhu

TACO 2024

BlissCam: Boosting Eye Tracking Efficiency with Learned In-Sensor Sparse Sampling
Yu Feng, Tianrui Ma, Yuhao Zhu, Xuan Zhang

ISCA 2024

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Cicero: Addressing Algorithmic and Architectural Bottlenecks in Neural Rendering by Radiance Warping and Memory Optimizations
Yu Feng, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2024

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Exploiting Human Color Discrimination for Memory- and Energy-Efficient Image Encoding in Virtual Reality
Nisarg Ujjainkar, Ethan Shahan, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Kenneth Chen, Qi Sun, Yuhao Zhu

ASPLOS 2024

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Amanda: Unified Instrumentation Framework for Deep Neural Networks
Yue Guan, Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Fan Yang, Shuo Yu, Yunxin Liu, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu, Lidong Zhou, Yun Liang, Chen Zhang, Chao Li, Minyi Guo

ASPLOS 2024

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Juno: Optimizing High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search with Sparsity-Aware Algorithm and Ray-Tracing Core Mapping
Zihan Liu, Wentao Ni, Jingwen Leng, Yu Feng, Cong Guo, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

ASPLOS 2024

Characterizing Soft-Error Resiliency in Arm's Ethos-U55 Embedded Machine Learning Accelerator
Abhishek Tyagi, Reiley Jeyapaul, Chuteng Zhou, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu

ISPASS 2024

Imperceptible Color Modulation for Power Saving in VR/AR
Kenneth Chen, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Nisarg Ujjainkar, Ethan Shahan, Abhishek Tyagi, Jiayi He, Yuhao Zhu, Qi Sun

SIGGRAPH Emerging Tech. 2023

Invited Paper: Learned In-Sensor Visual Computing: From Compression to Eventification
Yu Feng, Tianrui Ma, Adith Boloor, Yuhao Zhu, Xuan Zhang

ICCAD 2023

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CamJ: Enabling System-Level Energy Modeling and Architectural Exploration for In-Sensor Visual Computing
Tianrui Ma, Yu Feng, Xuan Zhang, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2023

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ImaGen: A General Framework for Generating Memory- and Power-Efficient Image Processing Accelerators
Nisarg Ujjainkar, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2023

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OliVe: Accelerating Large Language Models via Hardware-friendly Outlier-Victim Pair Quantization
Cong Guo, Jiaming Tang, Weiming Hu, Jingwen Leng, Chen Zhang, Fan Yang, Yunxin Liu, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2023

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BLITZCRANK: Factor Graph Accelerator for Motion Planning
Yuhui Hao, Yiming Gan, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

DAC 2023

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Co-designed Metaoptoelectronic Deep Learning
Carlos Mauricio Villegas Burgos, Pei Xiong, Liangyu Qiu, Yuhao Zhu, Nick Vamivakas

Optical Express 2023

Teaching Color Science to EECS Students Using Interactive Tutorials: Tools and Lessons
Yuhao Zhu

IS&T EI (VDA) 2023

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FastPoints: A State-of-the-Art Point Cloud Renderer for Unity
Elias Neuman-Donihue, Michael Jarvis, Yuhao Zhu

IS&T EI (VDA) 2023

Fast and Accurate: Video Enhancement Using Sparse Depth
Yu Feng, Patrick Hansen, Paul N Whatmough, Guoyu Lu, Yuhao Zhu

WACV 2023

Thales: Formulating and Estimating Architectural Vulnerability Factors for DNN Accelerators
Abhishek Tyagi, Yiming Gan, Shaoshan Liu, Bo Yu, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu

HPCA 2023

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Color-Perception-Guided Display Power Reduction for Virtual Reality
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Kenneth Chen, Abhishek Tyagi, Jiayi He, Yuhao Zhu, Qi Sun

SIGGRAPH Asia (TOG) 2022

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ANT: Exploiting Adaptive Numerical Data Type for Low-bit Deep Neural Network Quantization
Cong Guo, Chen Zhang, Jingwen Leng, Zihan Liu, Fan Yang, Yunxin Liu, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu
★ IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences in 2022 (Honorable Mention)

MICRO 2022

Multispectral Scheimpflug: Imaging Degraded Books that Open less than 30 Degrees
Gregory Heyworth, Keith T. Knox, Kenneth Boydston, Yuhao Zhu

IS&T Archiving 2022

Communication Challenges in Infrastructure-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving: A Field Deployment Perspective
Shaoshan Liu, Bo Yu, Jie Tang, Yuhao Zhu, Xue Liu

IEEE Wireless Comm. 2022

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Crescent: Taming Memory Irregularities for Accelerating Deep Point Cloud Analytics
Yu Feng, Gunnar Hammonds, Yiming Gan, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2022

BRAUM: Analyzing and Protecting Autonomous Machine Software Stack
Yiming Gan, Paul Whatmough, Jingwen Leng, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

ISSRE 2022

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Factor Graph Accelerator for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (Invited Paper)
Yuhui Hao, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

ICCAD 2022

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Real-Time Gaze Tracking with Event-Driven Eye Segmentation
Yu Feng, Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Asif Khan, Hans Reyserhove, Yuhao Zhu
★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

IEEE VR 2022

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Digital Reconstruction of Elmina Castle for Mobile Virtual Reality via Point-based Detail Transfer
Sifan Ye, Ting Wu, Michael Jarvis, Yuhao Zhu
★ Kostas Pantazos Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper in Visualization and Data Analysis

IS&T EI (VDA) 2022

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RTNN: Accelerating Neighbor Search Using Hardware Ray Tracing
Yuhao Zhu

PPoPP 2022

S2TA: Exploiting Structured Sparsity for Energy-Efficient Mobile CNN Acceleration
Zhi-Gang Liu, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu, Matt Mattina
★ Best Paper Nominee

HPCA 2022

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SQuant: On-the-Fly Data-Free Quantization via Diagonal Hessian Approximation
Cong Guo, Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Xiaotian Gao, Chen Zhang, Yunxin Liu, Fan Yang, Yuhao Zhu, Minyi Guo

ICLR 2022

An Energy Efficient and Runtime Reconfigurable Accelerator for Robotic Localization
Qiang Liu, Yuhui Hao, Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Jie Tang, Shao-Shan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

TC 2022

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Archytas: A Framework for Synthesizing and Dynamically Optimizing Accelerators for Robotic Localization
Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Qiang Liu, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

MICRO 2021

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Resurrect3D: An Open and Customizable Platform for Visualizing and Analyzing Cultural Heritage Artifacts
Joshua Romphf, Elias Neuman-Donihue, Gregory Heyworth, Yuhao Zhu

Web3D 2021

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Characterizing and Demystifying the Implicit Convolution Algorithm on Commercial Matrix-Multiplication Accelerators
Yangjie Zhou, Mengtian Yang, Cong Guo, Jingwen Leng, Yun Liang, Quan Chen, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

IISWC 2021

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Design Framework for Metasurface Optics-based Convolutional Neural Networks
Carlos Mauricio Villegas Burgos, Tianqi Yang, Nick Vamivakas, Yuhao Zhu

Applied Optics 2021

A Survey of FPGA-Based Robotic Computing
Zishen Wan, Bo Yu, Thomas Yuang Li, Jie Tang, Yuhao Zhu, Yu Wang, Arijit Raychowdhury, Shaoshan Liu
★ Invited Paper for Special Issue on FPGA

IEEE CAS-M 2021

Brief Industry Paper: The Matter of Time — A General and Efficient System for Precise Sensor Synchronization in Robotic Computing
Shaoshan Liu, Bo Yu, Yahui Liu, Kunai Zhang, Yisong Qiao, Thomas Yuang Li, Jie Tang, Yuhao Zhu

RTAS 2021

Eudoxus: Characterizing and Accelerating Localization in Autonomous Machines
Yiming Gan, Bo Yu, Boyuan Tian, Leimeng Xu, Wei Hu, Shaoshan Liu, Qiang Liu, Yanjun Zhang, Jie Tang, Yuhao Zhu

HPCA 2021

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Mesorasi: Architecture Support for Point Cloud Analytics via Delayed-Aggregation
Yu Feng, Boyuan Tian, Tiancheng Xu, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu

MICRO 2020

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Building the Computing System for Autonomous Micromobility Vehicles: Design Constraints and Architectural Optimizations
Bo Yu, Wei Hu, Leimeng Xu, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

MICRO 2020

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Ptolemy: Architecture Support for Robust Deep Learning
Yiming Gan, Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

MICRO 2020

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Real-Time Spatio-Temporal LiDAR Point Cloud Compression
Yu Feng, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu

IROS 2020

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Automatic Neural Network Compression by Sparsity-Quantization Joint Learning: A Constrained Optimization-based Approach
Haichuan Yang, Shupeng Gui, Yuhao Zhu, Ji Liu

CVPR 2020

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Accelerating Sparse DNN Models Without Hardware-Support via Tile-wise Sparsity
Cong Guo, Bo Yang Hsueh, Jingwen Leng, Yuxian Qiu, Yue Guan, Zehuan Wang, Xiaoying Jia, Xipeng Li, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

SC 2020

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Low-Latency Proactive Continuous Vision
Yiming Gan, Yuxian Qiu, Lele Chen, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu
★ Best Paper Nominee

PACT 2020

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A Systematic Methodology for Characterizing Scalability of DNN Accelerators using SCALE-Sim
Anand Samajdar, J. Joseph, Yuhao Zhu, Paul Whatmough, Matt Mattina, Tushar Krishna

ISPASS 2020

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Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility for DNN Acceleration via Temporal GPU-Systolic Array Integration
Cong Guo, Yangjie Zhou, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu, Zidong Du, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Bin Yao, Minyi Guo

DAC 2020

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Energy-Efficient 360-Degree Video Rendering on FPGA via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
Qiuyue Sun, Amir Taherin, Yawo Siatitse, Yuhao Zhu

FPGA 2020

Hyperion: A 3D Visualization Platform for Optical Design of Folded Systems
Daniel K. Nikolov, Sifan Ye, Sydney Dlhopolsky, Zhen Bai, Yuhao Zhu, Jannick P. Rolland

Frameless (Demo) 2019

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ASV: Accelerated Stereo Vision System
Yu Feng, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu

MICRO 2019

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Tigris: Architecture and Algorithms for 3D Perception in Point Clouds
Tiancheng Xu, Boyuan Tian, Yuhao Zhu
★ Best Paper Nominee

MICRO 2019

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PES: Proactive Event Scheduling for Responsive and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Computing
Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu

ISCA 2019

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Energy-Efficient Video Processing for Virtual Reality
Yue Leng, Chi-Chun Chen, Qiuyue Sun, Jian Huang, Yuhao Zhu
★ IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences in 2019

ISCA 2019

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Energy-Constrained Compression for Deep Neural Networks via Weighted Sparse Projection and Layer Input Masking
Haichuan Yang, Yuhao Zhu, Ji Liu

ICLR 2019

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ECC: Platform-Independent Energy-Constrained Deep Neural Network Compression via a Bilinear Regression Model
Haichuan Yang, Yuhao Zhu, Ji Liu

CVPR 2019

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Adversarial Defense Through Network Profiling Based Path Extraction
Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Cong Guo, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Minyi Guo, Yuhao Zhu

CVPR 2019

SVSoC: Speculative Vision Systems-on-a-Chip
Yiming Gan, Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, Yuhao Zhu

CAL 2019

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Tail Latency in Node.js: Energy Efficient Turbo Boosting for Long Latency Requests in Event-Driven Web Services
Wenzhi Cui, Daniel Richins, Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

VEE 2019

Demystifying Bayesian Inference Workloads
Yu Wang, Yuhao Zhu, Glenn Ko, Brandon Reagen, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks

ISPASS 2019

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Euphrates: Algorithm-SoC Co-Design for Low-Power Mobile Continuous Vision
Yuhao Zhu, Anand Samajdar, Matthew Mattina, Paul Whatmough
★ IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences in 2018 (Honorable Mention)

ISCA 2018

Semantic-Aware Virtual Reality Video Streaming
Yue Leng, Chi-Chun Chen, Qiuyue Sun, Jian Huang, Yuhao Zhu

APSys 2018

BitFlow: Exploiting Vector Parallelism for Binary Neural Networks on CPU
Yuwei Hu, Jidong Zhai, Dinghua Li, Yifan Gong, Yuhao Zhu, Wei Liu, Lei Su, Jiangming Jin

IPDPS 2018

Mobile Machine Learning Hardware at ARM: A Systems-on-Chip (SoC) Perspective
Yuhao Zhu, Matthew Mattina, Paul Whatmough

SysML 2018

Cloud No Longer a Silver Bullet, Edge to the Rescue
Yuhao Zhu, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks

arXiv 2018

Optimizing General-Purpose CPUs for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Computing
Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

TOCS 2017

Cognitive Computing Safety: The New Horizon for Reliability
Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

IEEE Micro 2017

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Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Computing
Yuhao Zhu
★ Honorable Mention of the ACM SIGARCH/IEEE-CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Dissertation 2017

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GreenWeb: Language Extensions for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Computing
Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

PLDI 2016

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Mobile CPU’s Rise to Power: Quantifying the Impact of Generational Mobile CPU Design Trends on Performance, Energy, and User Satisfaction
Matthew Halpern, Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

HPCA 2016

Research for Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing
Jean Yang, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Yuhao Zhu, Peter Bailis
★ Invited Article to the "Research for Practice" ( RfP ) Column

ACM Queue 2016

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Microarchitectural Implications of Event-driven Server-side Web Applications
Yuhao Zhu, Daniel Richins, Matthew Halpern, Vijay Janapa Reddi
★ IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences in 2015 (Honorable Mention)

MICRO 2015

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Event-Based Scheduling for Energy-Efficient QoS (eQoS) in Mobile Web Applications
Yuhao Zhu, Matthew Halpern, Vijay Janapa Reddi

HPCA 2015

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Mosaic: Cross-Platform User-Interaction Record and Replay for the Fragmented Android Ecosystem
Matthew Halpern, Yuhao Zhu, Ramesh Peri, Vijay Janapa Reddi

ISPASS 2015

The Role of the CPU in Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing
Yuhao Zhu, Matthew Halpern, Vijay Janapa Reddi

IEEE Micro 2015

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WebCore: Architectural Support for Mobile Web Browsing
Yuhao Zhu, Matthew Halpern, Vijay Janapa Reddi

ISCA 2014

Estimation of Instantaneous Frequency Fluctuation in a Fast DVFS Environment Using an Empirical BTI Stress-Relaxation Model
Chen Zhou, Xiaofei Wang, Weichao Xu, Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Chris Kim

IRPS 2014

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High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing on Big/Little Systems
Yuhao Zhu, Vijay Janapa Reddi

HPCA 2013

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Exploiting Webpage Characteristics for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing
Yuhao Zhu, Aditya Srikanth, Jingwen Leng, Vijay Janapa Reddi
★ Best of Computer Architecture Letters Award for 2014

CAL 2012

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Hermes: An Integrated CPU/GPU Microarchitecture for IP Routing
Yuhao Zhu, Yangdong Deng, Yubei Chen

DAC 2011

Massively Parallel Logic Simulation with GPUs
Yuhao Zhu, Bo Wang, Yangdong Deng

TODAES 2011

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Distributed Time, Conservative Parallel Logic Simulation on GPUs
Bo Wang, Yuhao Zhu, Yangdong Deng

DAC 2010

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