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Di (Dee) Wu (Woo)

Be pleasant,

profound,

and practical.

Di Wu is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of ECE at the University of Central Florida. He received his PhD degree from the Department of ECE at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Fudan University. His research interests broadly spread out in emerging areas of computer architecture and system. His research has been published in premier conferences on computer architecture, VLSI, and EDA, including ISCA, HPCA, DAC, ISLPED, etc. He served on the program committee for HPCA, ICCD and IISWC, and served as a reviewer for TACO, TC, TCAD, TCAS-I, TECS and TRETS. He was a Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star 2023, a recipient of the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship 2022, and his research was selected as a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist in 2019 and awarded as an IEEE Micro Top Pick in 2021.

News

Congrats to Croy, Francisco and Tyler on AMD undergraduate fellowship! Welcome aboard!

Sep 12, 2023

Di Wu co-organizes the 2023 ACM/IEEE Contest for Machine Learning on Hardware at International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) -- Track 2: Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery Challenge!

Aug 22, 2023

Di Wu will give a tech talk in AMD research on power-efficient computer architecture via unary computing!

Jul 21, 2023

Di Wu will serve on the program committee for IEEE HPCA 2024!

Jul 18, 2023

Di Wu will serve on the program committee for IEEE ICCD 2023!

Jun 27, 2023

Di Wu is selected as a MLSys Rising Star 2023 by MLCommons!

Jun 15, 2023

Di Wu will serve on the program committee for IEEE IISWC 2023!

May 17, 2023

Di Wu will join UCF ECE as a tenure-track assistant professor this fall!

Apr 30, 2023

Di Wu is awarded a Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship!

Jun 30, 2022

Hello world!

Apr 1, 2022

Publications

Unleashing the Potential of LLMs for Quantum Computing: A Study in Quantum Architecture Design

Jul 17, 2023

arXiv

Zhiding Liang, Jinglei Cheng, Rui Yang, Hang Ren, Zhixin Song, Di Wu, Xuehai Qian, Tongyang Li, Yiyu Shi

uBrain: A Unary Brain Computer Interface

Jun 18, 2022

ISCA

Di Wu, Jingjie Li, Zhewen Pan, Younghyun Kim, Joshua San Miguel

T-MAC: Temporal Multiplication with Accumulation

Mar 1, 2022

Young Architect Workshop (YArch)

Zhewen Pan, Di Wu, Joshua San Miguel

uSystolic: Byte-Crawling Unary Systolic Array

Feb 12, 2022

HPCA

Di Wu, Joshua San Miguel

Special Session: When Dataflows Converge: Reconfigurable and Approximate Computing for Emerging Neural Networks

Oct 24, 2021

ICCD

Di Wu, Joshua San Miguel

UNO: Virtualizing and Unifying Nonlinear Operations for Emerging Neural Networks

Jul 26, 2021

ISLPED

Di Wu, Jingjie Li, Setareh Behroozi, Younghyun Kim, Joshua San Miguel

uGEMM: Unary Computing for GEMM Applications

May 26, 2021

IEEE Micro

Di Wu, Jingjie Li, Ruokai Yin, Hsuan Hsiao, Younghyun Kim, Joshua San Miguel

Representation Range Needs for 16-Bit Neural Network Training

Apr 6, 2021

arXiv

Valentina Popescu, Abhinav Venigalla, Di Wu, Robert Schreiber

Normalized Stability: A Cross-Level Design Metric for Early Termination in Stochastic Computing

Jan 18, 2021

ASP-DAC

Di Wu, Ruokai Yin, Joshua San Miguel

In-Stream Correlation-Based Division and Bit-Inserting Square Root in Stochastic Computing

Jan 11, 2021

IEEE Design & Test

Di Wu, Ruokai Yin, Joshua San Miguel

uGEMM: Unary Computing Architecture for GEMM Applications

May 30, 2020

ISCA

Di Wu, Jingjie Li, Ruokai Yin, Hsuan Hsiao, Younghyun Kim, Joshua San Miguel

Approximate Hardware Techniques for Energy-Quality Scaling Across the System

Jan 19, 2020

ICEIC

Younghyun Kim, Joshua San Miguel, Setareh Behroozi, Tianen Chen, Kyuin Lee, Yongwoo Lee, Jingjie Li, Di Wu

SECO: A Scalable Accuracy Approximate Exponential Function Via Cross-Layer Optimization

Jul 29, 2019

ISLPED

Di Wu, Tianen Chen, Chienfu Chen, Oghenefego Ahia, Joshua San Miguel, Mikko Lipasti, Younghyun Kim

In-Stream Stochastic Division and Square Root via Correlation

Jun 2, 2019

DAC

Di Wu, Joshua San Miguel

Convergence-Optimized Variable Node Structure for Stochastic LDPC Decoder

Mar 20, 2016

ICASSP

Qichen Zhang, Yun Chen, Di Wu, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yeong-luh Ueng

Strategies for Reducing Decoding Cycles in Stochastic LDPC Decoders

Feb 25, 2016

IEEE TCAS-II

Di Wu, Yun Chen, Qichen Zhang, Yeong-luh Ueng, Xiaoyang Zeng

An Area-Efficient Architecture for Stochastic LDPC Decoder

Jul 21, 2015

DSP

Qichen Zhang, Yun Chen, Di Wu, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yeong-luh Ueng

Latency-Optimized Stochastic LDPC Decoder for High-Throughput Applications

May 24, 2015

ISCAS

Di Wu, Yun Chen, Qichen Zhang, Lirong Zheng, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yeong-luh Ueng

An Efficient Multirate LDPC-CC Decoder with A Layered Decoding Algorithm for The IEEE 1901 Standard

Oct 14, 2014

IEEE TCAS-II

Yun Chen, Qichen Zhang, Di Wu, Changsheng Zhou, Xiaoyang Zeng

A High-Throughput LDPC Decoder for Optical Communication

Oct 28, 2013

ASICON

Di Wu, Yun Chen, Yuebin Huang, Yeongluh Ueng, Lirong Zheng, Xiaoyang Zeng

Research

Teaching

ECE697 (Capstone Project in Machine Learning and Signal Processing), UW-Madison

May 1, 2023

Instructor

ECE554 (Digital Circuit Lab), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2022

Teaching Assistant

ECE454 (Mobile Computing Lab), UW–Madison

Sep 1, 2021

Teaching Assistant

ECE757 (Advanced Computer Architecture II), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2021

Guest Lecturer

ECE454 (Mobile Computing Lab), UW–Madison

Sep 1, 2020

Teaching Assistant

ECE757 (Advanced Computer Architecture II), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2020

Guest Lecturer

ECE554 (Digital Circuit Lab), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2020

Teaching Assistant

ECE554 (Digital Circuit Lab), UW–Madison

Sep 1, 2019

Teaching Assistant

ECE554 (Digital Circuit Lab), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2019

Teaching Assistant

ECE752 (Advanced Computer Architecture I), UW–Madison

Feb 1, 2019

Guest Lecturer

ECE554 (Digital Circuit Lab), UW–Madison

Sep 1, 2018

Teaching Assistant

ECE552 (Introduction to Computer Architecture), UW–Madison

Sep 1, 2018

Teaching Assistant

Team

PhD

Emon Sarkar

2023-

Yanzhang Zhu

2023-

Marco Kurzynski

2023-

Master

Alexander Bagherzadeh

2023-

Zhewen Pan

2021-2022

UW-Madison

Undergraduate

Francisco Soriano

2023-

Cory Brynds

2023-

Tyler Goldsmith

2023-

Daniel Price

2023-

Mustafa Nisar

2023-

Queenly Xie

2023-

Ruokai Yin

2019-2021

Yale

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