Parallel Systems and Computing Laboratory

About Us

We focus on bringing energy efficiency and data/signal intelligence into a wide spectrum of today’s computing infrastructures, from data center/edge server systems to wearable/IoT devices, through algorithm, system, and architecture innovations.
 
We aspire to provide real-time and energy-efficient computing solutions for data analytics and information processing. 
 

Funding News

March 27, 2022

PSCLab receives a research contract from Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to develop data-driven methods for multimodal semantic scene understanding.

August 23, 2021

PSCLab receives a research contract from TechInsights Inc. to develop data-driven visualization methods to facilitate the inspection of via and wire segmentation results for semiconductor analysis.

October 15, 2020

PSCLab receives a research contract from TechInsights Inc. to develop hybrid methods for high-accuracy via and wire segmentation for semiconductor analysis.

June 1, 2020

PSCLab receives a continuing unrestricted gift from Cisco Research Center (for the 2nd year) to develop an energy-efficient and intelligent framework for Internet-of-Things (IoT) data analytics.

 Link: Cisco Research Center

March 11, 2019

PSCLab receives an unrestricted gift from RadiusAI, Inc. to develop FPGA-based video analytics solution on network edge.

 Link: RadiusAI, Inc.

May 15, 2018

PSCLab receives an unrestricted gift from Cisco Research Center to develop an energy-efficient and intelligent framework for Internet-of-Things (IoT) data processing.

 Link: Cisco Research Center

February 21, 2018

Prof. Ren wins a 2017 Google Faculty Research Award to develop data-driven, neural network based image/video codec for machine perception.

 Link: Award Announcement , List of Recipients, Research at Google

February 16, 2017

Prof. Ren receives the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to develop data-driven and hardware-friendly compressive sensing and data analytics solutions to fulfill unmet energy efficiency needs of Internet-of-things (IoT) applications.

 Link: Full Circle News, ASU Now News, NSF Award Abstract
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Research News

October 13, 2022

The paper "STPLS3D: A Large-Scale Synthetic and Real Aerial Photogrammetry 3D Point Cloud Dataset", in collaboration with University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Oxford, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Southern California will be presented at the The 33rd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC’22), to be held in London, UK, from November 21st-24th, 2022.

 Link: Paper, Dataset

June 20, 2022

Zifan's paper "A Data-Driven Approach for Automated Integrated Circuit Segmentation of Scan Electron Microscopy Images", will be presented at The 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'22), to be held in Bordeaux, France from October 16th-19th, 2022.

 Link: Paper

May 22, 2022

Zhikang's paper "An Experimental Study on Transferring Data-driven Image Compressive Sensing to Bioelectric Signal", is presented at The 47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'22), held in Singapore from May 22nd-27th, 2022.

 Link: Paper

August 21, 2021

Erfan's paper "FSCHOL: An OpenCL-based HPC Framework for Accelerating Sparse Cholesky Factorization on FPGAs", will be presented at The 33rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'21), to be held as a virtual event from October 26th-29th, 2021.

 Link: Paper

May 11, 2021

Jonathan, Matthew, Mark, and Zhikang's (equally contributed) invited paper "OpenICS: Open Image Compressive Sensing Toolbox and Benchmark", is accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Software Impacts.

 Link: Paper, arXiv Version, GitHub Repo, CodeOcean Capsule

March 1, 2021

Masudul and Erfan's (equally contributed) paper "A Survey of System Architectures and Techniques for FPGA Virtualization", is accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

 Link: Paper

June 1, 2020

The paper "MoNet3D: Towards Accurate Monocular 3D Object Localization in Real Time", co-authored with Dr. Xichuan Zhou (Chongqing University), will be presented at the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’20), to be held as a virtual event from July 13th-18th, 2020.

 Link: Paper

April 1, 2020

The paper "Edge Computing Accelerated Defect Classification Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network With Application in Rolling Image Inspection", co-authored with Prof. Hao Yan and Prof. Feng Ju (Arizona State University), is accepted by the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC'20).
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Lab News

May 14, 2021

Masudul has been selected as the recipient of this academic year's Outstanding Computer Engineering (CS) TA Award in recognition of his professional excellence on serving as the TA for CEN571 and CSE320. 

Congratulations and thanks for your service, Masudul!

May 14, 2021

Dr. Xu has been selected by the CEN(CS) Graduate Program Committee as the recipient of this academic year's Outstanding Computer Engineering (CS) PhD Student Award in recognition of his excellent research accomplishments and academic performance. 

Congratulations, Dr. Xu!

April 30, 2021

We are delighted to announce that Yixing Li successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Hardware-friendly Deep Learning for Edge Computing" on December 16th, 2020, and will have her Ph.D. degree conferred in May 2021. 

 Link: Google Citation, LinkedIn

April 30, 2021

We are delighted to announce that Kai Xu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Learning In Compressed Domains" on February 10th, 2021, and will have his Ph.D. degree conferred in May 2021. 

 Link: Google Citation, LinkedIn

July 8, 2020

Prof. Fengbo Ren was elevated to the grade of Senior Member of both IEEE and ACM.

July 5, 2019

Mrs. Deborah Lenz, a Chemistry/Gifted Chemistry Teacher from McClintock High School in Tempe, AZ, is visiting PSCLab for one summer month to participate in the High-School Teacher Training Program (HTTP).

May 2, 2019

Kai has been selected by the Graduate College as a recipient of Completion (Dissertation-year) Fellowship for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 in recognition of his outstanding research progress and academic performance. 

Congratulations, Kai!

May 1, 2019

Prof. Ren has been selected to receive a Fulton Schools of Engineering Best Teacher Award - Top 5% for the academic year of 2018-2019. 
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