I am currently a PhD candidate student in the Electronic and Computer Engineering department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems, and a member of Vision and System Design Lab (VSDL) under the supervision of Prof. Kwang-Ting CHENG. If you are interested, here is my CV.

In terms of my undergraduate study, I was at School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学深港微电子学院), advised by Fengwei An (安丰伟).

My research interest includes software/hardware co-design, model compression, and 3d processing.

🔥 News

  • 2025.02:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by DAC 2025!
  • 2024.10:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ISSCC 2025!
  • 2024.02:  🎉🎉 One paper and one poster are accepted by DAC 2024!
  • 2022.08:  🎉🎉 Our second paper of the SLAM accelerator project is accepted by Sensors!
  • 2022.08:  🎉🎉 Our first paper of the SLAM accelerator project (my first paper) is accepted by TCAS-II!
  • 2021.12:  🎉🎉 Our team won the first prize of 2021 National College Students FPGA Innovation Design Competition!
  • 2021.10:  🎉🎉 Our team won the first prize of 2021 International Competition of Autonomous Running Robots!

📝 Publications

A 28nm 0.22μJ/Token Memory-Compute-Intensity-Aware CNN-Transformer Accelerator with Hybrid-Attention-Based Layer-Fusion and Cascaded Pruning for Semantic-Segmentation

Pingcheng Dong*, Yonghao Tan*, Xuejiao Liu, Peng Luo, Yu Liu, Luhong Liang, Yitong Zhou, Di Pang, Manto Yung, Dong Zhang, Xijie Huang, Shih-Yang Liu, Yongkun Wu, Fengshi Tian, Chi-Ying Tsui, Fengbin Tu, Kwang-Ting Cheng

*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs)

Genetic Quantization-Aware Approximation for Non-Linear Operations in Transformers

Pingcheng Dong*, Yonghao Tan*, Dong Zhang, Tianwei Ni, Xuejiao Liu, Yu Liu, Peng Luo, Luhong Liang, Shih-Yang Liu, Xijie Huang, Huaiyu Zhu, Yun Pan, Fengwei An, Kwang-Ting Cheng

*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs)

A Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithms in FPGA

Yonghao Tan*, Huanshihong Deng*, Mengying Sun, Minghao Zhou, Yifei Chen, Lei Chen, Chao Wang, Fengwei An

*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs)

A Reconfigurable Visual-Inertial Odometry Accelerator with High Area and Energy Efficiency for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Yonghao Tan*, Mengying Sun*, Huanshihong Deng, Haihan Wu, Minghao Zhou, Yifei Chen, Zhuo Yu, Qinghan Zeng, Ping Li, Lei Chen, Fengwei An

*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs)

🎖 Honors and Awards

📖 Educations

  • 2023.09 - present, Doctor of Philosophy, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • 2019.09 - present, Undergraduate, Microelectronics, Experimental Class, School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. GPA: 3.77.
  • 2016.09 - 2019.06, Shimen Middle School, Foshan, China.

📚 Research Projects

  • Hybrid Bonding based co-design AI accelerator (AC-RHB)
    • Co-design optimization for LLMs
    • Implement the AI-core and RERAM with 55nm die-on-wafer stacking via bumping process
  • Transformer based co-design AI accelerator (AC-Transformer)
    • Hardware/Software collaborative optimization of Transformer-based architecture
    • Implement an energy-efficient Transformer-based accelerator for semantic segmentation with 28nm ASIC process
  • ASIC design of SLAM accelerator in 28nm CMOS technology
    • Propose a reconfigurable visual-inertial odometry accelerator and implemented it on FPGA platform which can process data from image sensor and inertial measurement unit for trajectory output in real-time at 160MHz and 110fps
    • Optimize the hardware architecture and perform back-end design for ASIC development

😀 Teaching Assistant

  • ELEC2350: Introduction to Computer Organization and Design (2025 Fall)
  • ELEC3400: Introduction to Integrated Circuits and Systems (2024 Spring)
  • ELEC6910H: Advanced AI Chip and System (2024 Fall)