Resume

Basics

Full Name Houxiang Ji
Email hj14[at]illinois[dot]edu
Languages Mandarin (native), English (fluent)

Research Interests

Hardware and Architecture Focus
Computer architecture
Memory system hardware and software
Compute express link (CXL)
Near-memory acceleration
System and Application Focus
System for machine learning
ML accelerator
Hardware-software co-design
Heterogeneous computing

Education

  • 2018 -
    Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2021
    MSc in Computer Science
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2018
    BEng in Computer Science
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2018
    BSc in Finance
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Best Demo Award, SRC/DARPA PRISM Center Annual Review
    • UIUC CS PhD Fellowship
    • USENIX OSDI/ATC 2023 Travel Grant
  • 2019
    • IEEE ISCA 2019 Travel Grant
  • 2018
    • Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship, UIUC
    • Zhiyuan Honor Degree of B.Sc. in Computer Science, SJTU
    • Outstanding Graduates, SJTU
  • 2015-2017
    • Zhiyan Honor Scholarship, SJTU
    • Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, SJTU

Experience

  • 2022/07 - 12
    Visiting Researcher
    Capacity Engineering and Analysis, Meta
  • 2021/05 - 08
    Research Intern
    CPU Design, Luminous Computing
  • 2020/05 - 08
    Research Intern
    Security and Privacy Research, Intel Lab