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  1. From Loop Nests to Silicon: Mapping AI Workloads onto AMD NPUs with MLIR-AIR

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, January 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  2. Characterizing and Optimizing Realistic Workloads on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Device

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  3. Cypress: VLSI-Inspired PCB Placement with GPU Acceleration

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  4. ARIES: An Agile MLIR-Based Compilation Flow for Reconfigurable Devices with AI Engines

    Article • February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang, Yuqi Li, Peipei Zhou

  5. Understanding the Potential of FPGA-based Spatial Acceleration for Large Language Model Inference

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  6. Allo: A Programming Model for Composable Accelerator Design

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  7. A Comprehensive Evaluation of FPGA-Based Spatial Acceleration of LLMs

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  8. Formal Verification of Source-to-Source Transformations for HLS

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  9. Supporting a Virtual Vector Instruction Set on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Accelerator

    Article • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Niansong Zhang

  10. RapidLayout: Fast Hard Block Placement of FPGA-optimized Systolic Arrays Using Evolutionary Algorithm

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  11. Accelerator design with decoupled hardware customizations

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  12. HeteroFlow

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Niansong Zhang

  13. RapidLayout: Fast Hard Block Placement of FPGA-Optimized Systolic Arrays using Evolutionary Algorithms

    Article • August 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Niansong Zhang