August Ning
I am a fourth year Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD candidate at Princeton. I am advised by Prof. David Wentzlaff in the Princeton Parallel Group.
I did my undergrad at Duke in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I was advised by Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty and his graduate students and conducted research on VLSI testing.
I spent summer 2023 interning at AMD Research, mentored by Yasuko Eckert.
I am supported by Princeton’s Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
News
- Mar 2024 - Presented at NYU Computer Architecture Day
- Mar 2024 - LLMCompass accepted at ISCA 2024! The preprint is on arxiv
- Mar 2024 - Gave a talk for Princeton ACM about “Why You Should (and Should Not!) Go to Grad School”
- Feb 2024 - I will be serving on the ISCA 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee
- Dec 2023 - New preprint up on arxiv: A Hardware Evaluation Framework for Large Language Model Inference
- Sep 2023 - Incredibly fortunate to receive a Princeton ECE Graduate Student Service Award
- Aug 2023 - An extend version of our CIFER paper has been accepted in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
- Jun 2023 - Modeling for Supply Chain Aware Computer Architecture is open sourced. Check it out! github.com/PrincetonUniversity/ttm-cas/
Research Interests
My research focuses on computer architecture under (very broadly defined) economics constraints. I am interested in how semiconductor supply chains, manufacturing costs, and economic trends ultimately affect chip and system designs.
Closer to traditional computer architecture, I am interested in sustainability, hardware security, chiplet architectures, and software-hardware co-design via the DECADES Project.
Additionally, I am passionate about building research and student communities. I serve on the Computer Architecture Student Association steering committee and often organize social events with the Princeton computer architects. I am the graduate liason for Princeton ACM. If you’re ever in the Princeton area or meet me at a conference, please reach out and say hello!
Publications
- LLMCompass: Enabling Efficient Hardware Design for Large Language Model Inference
- Hengrui Zhang, August Ning, Rohan Prabhakar, and David Wentzlaff
- The 51th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) (to appear), Buenos Aires, AR, Jun 2024
- [arxiv]
- CIFER: A Cache-Coherent 12nm 16mm2 SoC With Four 64-Bit RISC-V Application Cores, 18 32-Bit RISC-V Compute Cores, and a 1541 LUT6/mm2 Synthesizable eFPGA
- Ang Li, Et al.
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Aug 2023
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
- Supply Chain Aware Computer Architecture
- August Ning, Georgios Tziantzioulis, and David Wentzlaff
- The 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Orlando, FL, USA, Jun 2023
- [ACM DL Open Access] [pdf] [Github repo]
- CIFER: A 12nm, 16mm2, 22-Core SoC with a 1541 LUT6/mm2, 1.92 MOPS/LUT, Fully Synthesizable, Cache-Coherent, Embedded FPGA
- Ting-Jung Chang*, Ang Li*, Et al.
- 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Antonio, TX, USA, Apr 2023
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
- DECADES: A 67mm2, 1.46TOPS, 55 Giga Cache-Coherent 64-bit RISC-V Instructions per second, Heterogeneous Manycore SoC with 109 Tiles including Accelerators, Intelligent Storage, and eFPGA in 12nm FinFET
- Fei Gao, Et al.
- 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Antonio, TX, USA, Apr 2023
- Best Student Paper Award Nominee!
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
- Duet: Creating Harmony between Processors and Embedded FPGAs
- Ang Li, August Ning, and David Wentzlaff
- 2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Montreal, QC, Canada, Mar 2023
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] [Github repo]
- Variation-Aware Delay Fault Testing for Carbon-Nanotube FET Circuits
- Sanmitra Banerjee, Arjun Chaudhuri, August Ning and Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Feb 2021
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]
Workshops/Presentations
- Computer Architectures for Chip Surplus
- August Ning and David Wentzlaff
- ACM Student Research Competition at MICRO 2022, Chicago, IL, USA, Oct 2022
- [poster]
- Supply Chain Aware Chip Architecture
- August Ning, Georgios Tziantzioulis, and David Wentzlaff
- The Fourth Young Architect Workshop at ASPLOS 2022, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland, Mar 2022
- [poster]
Github / Google Scholar / CV
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