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GAS: A Heterogeneous Memory Acceleration for Graph Processing

Published in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2018

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Mohsen Imani, Saransh Gupta, and Tajana Rosing, “GAS: A Heterogeneous Memory Acceleration for Graph Processing”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2018.

GRAM: Graph Processing in a ReRAM-based Computational Memory

Published in 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2019

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Mohsen Imani, Saransh Gupta, Yeseong Kim, and Tajana Rosing, “GRAM: Graph Processing in a ReRAM-based Computational Memory”, 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2019

Temperature-Aware DRAM Cache Management -Relaxing Thermal Constraints in 3D Systems

Published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2019

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Andreas Prodromou, Rui Wang, Hailong Yang, Depei Qian, Dean Tullsen. “Temperature-Aware DRAM Cache Management -Relaxing Thermal Constraints in 3D Systems”. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2019

HR3AM: A Heat Resilient Design for RRAM-based Neuromorphic Computing

Published in ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design , 2019

Recommended citation: Xiao Liu, Minxuan Zhou, Tajana Rosing, and Jishen Zhao. 2019. HR3AM: A Heat Resilient Design for RRAM-based Neuromorphic Computing. accepted in ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2019

DigitalPIM: Digital-based Processing In-Memory for Big Data Acceleration

Published in ACM Proceedings of the 2019 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2019

Recommended citation: Mohsen Imani, Saransh Gupta, Yeseong Kim, Minxuan Zhou, and Tajana Rosing. DigitalPIM: Digital-based Processing In-Memory for Big Data Acceleration. ACM Proceedings of the 2019 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

MAT: Processing In-Memory Acceleration for Long-Sequence Attention

Published in Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Yunhui Guo, Weihong Xu, Bin Li, Kevin Eliceiri, and Tajana Rosing, “MAT: Processing In-Memory Acceleration for Long-Sequence Attention”, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021

Ultra Efficient Acceleration for De Novo Genome Assembly via Near-Memory Computing

Published in International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2021

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Lingxi Wu, Muzhou Li, Niema Moshiri, Kevin Skadron, and Tajana Rosing, “Ultra Efficient Acceleration for De Novo Genome Assembly via Near-Memory Computing”, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2021

PIM-DL: Boosting DNN Inference on Digital Processing In-Memory Architectures via Data Layout Optimizations

Published in International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2021

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Guoyang Chen, Mohsen Imani, Saransh Gupta, Weifeng Zhang, and Tajana Rosing, “PIM-DL: Boosting DNN Inference on Digital Processing In-Memory Architectures via Data Layout Optimizations”, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2021

TransPIM: A Memory-based Acceleration via Software-Hardware Co-Design for Transformers

Published in The 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2022

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou*, Weihong Xu*, Jaeyoung Kang, and Tajana Rosing, “TransPIM: A Memory-based Acceleration via Software-Hardware Co-Design for Transformers”, The 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’22), 2022

PIMProf: An Automated Program Profiler for Processing-in-Memory Offloading Decisions

Published in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2022

Recommended citation: Yizhou Wei, Minxuan Zhou, Sihang Liu, Korakit Seemakhupt, Tajana Rosing and Samira Khan. “PIMProf: An Automated Program Profiler for Processing-in-Memory Offloading Decisions”, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’22), 2022

Recommended citation: Yizhou Wei, Minxuan Zhou, Sihang Liu, Korakit Seemakhupt, Tajana Rosing and Samira Khan. “PIMProf: An Automated Program Profiler for Processing-in-Memory Offloading Decisions”, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’22), 2022

RelHD: A Lightweight Graph-based Learning with Hyperdimensional Computing

Published in he 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2022

Recommended citation: Jaeyoung Kang, Minxuan Zhou, Abhinav Bhansali, Weihong Xu, Anthony Thomas and Tajana Rosing, “RelHD: A Lightweight Graph-based Learning with Hyperdimensional Computing”, The 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD’22), 2022

Efficient Machine Learning on Encrypted Data using Hyperdimensional Computing

Published in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2023

Recommended citation: Yujin Nam, Minxuan Zhou, Saransh Gupta, Gabrielle De Micheli, Rosario Cammarota, Chris Wilkerson, Daniele Micciancio, and Tajana Rosing, “Efficient Machine Learning on Encrypted Data using Hyperdimensional Computing”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2023

Abakus: Accelerating k-mer Counting With Storage Technology

Published in ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim (TACO), 2023

Recommended citation: Lingxi Wu*, Minxuan Zhou*, Weihong Xu, Ashish Venkat, Tajana Rosing, and Kevin Skadron. "Abakus: Accelerating k-mer Counting With Storage Technology". ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632952

PRIMATE: Processing in Memory Acceleration for Dynamic Token-pruning Transformers

Published in 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2024

Recommended citation: Yue Pan, Minxuan Zhou, Chonghan Lee, Zheyu Li, Rishika Kushwah, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, and Tajana Rosing, “PRIMATE: Processing in Memory Acceleration for Dynamic Token-pruning Transformers”, 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2024

HygHD: Hyperdimensional Hypergraph Learning

Published in Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2024

Recommended citation: Jaeyoung Kang, You Hak Lee, Minxuan Zhou, Weihong Xu and Tajana Rosing, “HygHD: Hyperdimensional Hypergraph Learning”, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2024

Multi-Objective Software-Hardware Co-Optimizationfor HD-PIM via Noise-Aware Bayesian Optimization

Published in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024

Recommended citation: Chien-Yi Yang, Minxuan Zhou, Flavio Ponzina, Suraj Sathya Prakash, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Mahesh Subedar, and Tajana Rosing, “Multi-Objective Software-Hardware Co-Optimizationfor HD-PIM via Noise-Aware Bayesian Optimization”, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024

UFC: A Unified Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Published in 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2024

Recommended citation: Minxuan Zhou, Yujin Nam, Xuan Wang, Youhak Lee, Chris Wilkerson, Raghavan Kumar, Sachin Taneja, Sanu Mathew, Rosario Cammarota, and Tajana Rosing, “UFC: A Unified Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption”, 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2024

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Computer Architecture

Undergraduate course, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, 2025

This course introduces the fundamental principles underlying modern computer architecture; explains the key hardware components, organizations, mechanisms that realize full-functional, high-performance, and energy-efficient computing systems. Covered topics include Instruction Set Architectures, Pipelining, Out-of-order Execution, Branch Prediction, Memory Hierarchy, Parallel Machines, Application-Specific Computer Architecture with an emphasis on Machine Learning Accelerators, and Non-Conventional Computer Architecture.