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  1. μ-ORCA: Optimizing Acceleration for Microsecond-Scale Deep Neural Network Inference on ACAP

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  2. DORA: Dataflow-Instruction Orchestration Architecture for DNN Acceleration

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  3. To Overlay or to Customize? Revisiting Architectural Choices in Heterogeneous Systems

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  4. Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Data Centers via Carbon Depreciation Models

    Article • June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  5. A Survey on Graph Neural Network Acceleration: Algorithms, Systems, and Customized Hardware

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh

  6. AgRefactor: Refactoring for HLS Compatibility with a Self-Evolving Agentic Workflow

    Article • February 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  7. AGILE: Lightweight and Efficient Asynchronous GPU-SSD Integration

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

    Peipei Zhou

  8. Holistic Optimization Framework for FPGA Accelerators

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stephane Pouget, Peipei Zhou

  9. MTrain: Enable Efficient CNN Training on Heterogeneous FPGA-Based Edge Servers

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, September 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  10. ART: Customizing Accelerators for DNN-Enabled Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems

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

    Peipei Zhou

  11. Assessing Quantum Layout Synthesis Tools via Known Optimal-SWAP Cost Benchmarks

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  12. Reaction Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in Edge-assisted Autonomous Driving

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yuqi Li, Peipei Zhou

  13. Invited: Coping with Interconnects

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

    Peipei Zhou

  14. Using a multilevel framework to solve quantum layout synthesis problem.

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

    Peipei Zhou, Wan-Hsuan Lin

  15. Stream-HLS: Towards Automatic Dataflow Acceleration

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

    Peipei Zhou

  16. 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

  17. A Unified Framework for Automated Code Transformation and Pragma Insertion

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

    Stephane Pouget, Peipei Zhou

  18. InTRRA: Inter-Task Resource-Repurposing Accelerator for Efficient Transformer Inference on FPGAs

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

    Zifan He, Peipei Zhou

  19. SAT-Accel: A Modern SAT Solver on a FPGA

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

    Peipei Zhou

  20. Compilation for Dynamically Field-Programmable Qubit Arrays with Efficient and Provably Near-Optimal Scheduling

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

    Peipei Zhou, Wan-Hsuan Lin

  21. Automatic Hardware Pragma Insertion in High-Level Synthesis: A Non-Linear Programming Approach

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stephane Pouget, Peipei Zhou

  22. FiberFlex: FPGA-based Intelligent & Distributed Fiber Sensor System for Pedestrian Recognition

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

    Dr. Nageswara Lalam, Yuqi Li, Peipei Zhou

  23. Amortizing Embodied Carbon Across Generations

    Article • November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  24. CHEF: A Framework for Deploying Heterogeneous Models on Clusters With Heterogeneous FPGAs

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  25. EQ-ViT: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for End-to-End Acceleration of Real-Time Vision Transformer Inference on Versal ACAP Architecture

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  26. Efficient Task Transfer for HLS DSE

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

    Peipei Zhou, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh

  27. Quantum State Preparation Circuit Optimization Exploiting Don't Cares

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

    Peipei Zhou

  28. GNN-Based Performance Prediction of Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou, Wan-Hsuan Lin

  29. RapidStream IR: Infrastructure for FPGA High-Level Physical Synthesis

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

    Peipei Zhou

  30. Reducing Smart Phone Environmental Footprints with In-Memory Processing

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  31. Learning to Compare Hardware Designs for High-Level Synthesis

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

    Peipei Zhou, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh

  32. Cross-Modality Program Representation Learning for Electronic Design Automation with High-Level Synthesis

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  33. PASTA: Programming and Automation Support for Scalable Task-Parallel HLS Programs on Modern Multi-Die FPGAs

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

    Peipei Zhou, Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi

  34. CHARM 2.0: Composing Heterogeneous Accelerators for Deep Learning on Versal ACAP Architecture

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

    Peipei Zhou

  35. SCARIF: Towards Carbon Modeling of Cloud Servers with Accelerators

    Article • July 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  36. Q-Pilot: Field Programmable Qubit Array Compilation with Flying Ancillas

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

    Peipei Zhou

  37. Enabling On-Device Large Language Model Personalization with Self-Supervised Data Selection and Synthesis

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

    Ahmed Abbasi, Peipei Zhou

  38. SpectraFlux: Harnessing the Flow of Multi-FPGA in Mass Spectrometry Clustering

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

    Peipei Zhou

  39. TAPA-CS: Enabling Scalable Accelerator Design on Distributed HBM-FPGAs

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

    Peipei Zhou

  40. Automatic Hardware Pragma Insertion in High-Level Synthesis: A Non-Linear Programming Approach

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

    Peipei Zhou, Stephane Pouget

  41. SSR: Spatial Sequential Hybrid Architecture for Latency Throughput Tradeoff in Transformer Acceleration

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

    Peipei Zhou

  42. FPGA-based Accelerator for Sparse Triangular Solver

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

    Peipei Zhou, Zifan He

  43. Scheduling and Physical Design

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

    Peipei Zhou

  44. Challenges and Opportunities to Enable Large-Scale Computing via Heterogeneous Chiplets

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

    Peipei Zhou

  45. REFRESH FPGAs: Sustainable FPGA Chiplet Architectures

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yue Tang, Peipei Zhou

  46. AIM: Accelerating Arbitrary-Precision Integer Multiplication on Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Computing Platform Versal ACAP

    Article • October 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  47. Efficient Hardware and Software Design for On-device Learning

    Article • October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peipei Zhou

  48. TAPA: A Scalable Task-Parallel Dataflow Programming Framework for Modern FPGAs with Co-Optimization of HLS and Physical Design

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  49. Caffeine: Towards Uniformed Representation and Acceleration for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chen Zhang, Peipei Zhou

  50. NeSSA: Near-Storage Data Selection for Accelerated Machine Learning Training

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  51. High Performance, Low Power Matrix Multiply Design on ACAP: from Architecture, Design Challenges and DSE Perspectives

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  52. Rubick: A Synthesis Framework for Spatial Architectures via Dataflow Decomposition

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  53. Scalable Optimal Layout Synthesis for NISQ Quantum Processors

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou, Wan-Hsuan Lin

  54. Lightning Talk: Scaling Up Quantum Compilation – Challenges and Opportunities

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  55. A Comprehensive Automated Exploration Framework for Systolic Array Designs

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  56. RapidStream 2.0: Automated Parallel Implementation of Latency Insensitive FPGA Designs Through Partial Reconfiguration

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  57. FPGA Acceleration of Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams with High-level Synthesis

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  58. FlexCNN: An End-to-end Framework for Composing CNN Accelerators on FPGA

    Article • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  59. HMLib: Efficient Data Transfer for HLS Using Host Memory

    Article • February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  60. Callipepla: Stream Centric Instruction Set and Mixed Precision for Accelerating Conjugate Gradient Solver

    Article • February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  61. CHARM: C omposing H eterogeneous A ccele R ators for M atrix Multiply on Versal ACAP Architecture

    Article • February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  62. Sustainable AI Processing at the Edge

    Article • IEEE Micro, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  63. FPGA HLS Today: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

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

    Peipei Zhou

  64. Enabling Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization From On-Device Learning of the Video Stream

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  65. Qubit Mapping for Reconfigurable Atom Arrays

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

    Peipei Zhou

  66. OverGen: Improving FPGA Usability through Domain-specific Overlay Generation

    Article • October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  67. EF-Train: Enable Efficient On-device CNN Training on FPGA through Data Reshaping for Online Adaptation or Personalization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yue Tang, Peipei Zhou

  68. Energy-Efficient LSTM Inference Accelerator for Real-Time Causal Prediction

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zhe Chen, Peipei Zhou

  69. N-DISE

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

    Peipei Zhou, susmit shannigrahi shannigrahi shannigrahi, Sankalpa Timilsina

  70. AutoDSE: Enabling Software Programmers to Design Efficient FPGA Accelerators

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  71. Serpens

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

    Peipei Zhou

  72. Automated accelerator optimization aided by graph neural networks

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  73. Improving GNN-based accelerator design automation with meta learning

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

    Peipei Zhou, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh

  74. H2H

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

    Peipei Zhou

  75. Automated Accelerator Optimization Aided by Graph Neural Networks

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  76. SPA-GCN: Efficient and Flexible GCN Accelerator with Application for Graph Similarity Computation

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  77. Sextans: A Streaming Accelerator for General-Purpose Sparse-Matrix Dense-Matrix Multiplication

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

    Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Peipei Zhou

  78. Accelerating SSSP for Power-Law Graphs

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

    Peipei Zhou

  79. RapidStream

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

    Peipei Zhou

  80. Algorithm-hardware Co-design of Attention Mechanism on FPGA Devices

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  81. TENET: A Framework for Modeling Tensor Dataflow Based on Relation-centric Notation

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  82. AutoBridge

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  83. Extending High-Level Synthesis for Task-Parallel Programs

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  84. HBM Connect: High-Performance HLS Interconnect for FPGA HBM

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  85. MOCHA

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  86. AutoDSE: Enabling Software Programmers Design Efficient FPGA Accelerators

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh

  87. AutoSA

    Article • February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  88. BLINK

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou, Zhe Chen

  89. HeteroRefactor

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  90. Bonsai: High-Performance Adaptive Merge Tree Sorting

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

    Peipei Zhou, Vaibhav Aggarwal

  91. Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for BQSR Acceleration in Genome Analysis ToolKit

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

    Peipei Zhou

  92. Caffeine: Toward Uniformed Representation and Acceleration for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, November 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  93. Overcoming Data Transfer Bottlenecks in FPGA-based DNN Accelerators via Layer Conscious Memory Management

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  94. Dataflow Systolic Array Implementations of Matrix Decomposition Using High Level Synthesis

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  95. LANMC

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zhe Chen, Peipei Zhou

  96. HeteroCL

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  97. Overcoming Data Transfer Bottlenecks in DNN Accelerators via Layer-Conscious Memory Managment

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  98. HLS-based optimization and design space exploration for applications with variable loop bounds

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  99. PolySA

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  100. SODA

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  101. TGPA

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  102. Doppio: I/O-Aware Performance Analysis, Modeling and Optimization for In-memory Computing Framework

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  103. ST-Accel: A High-Level Programming Platform for Streaming Applications on FPGA

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  104. Latte: Locality Aware Transformation for High-Level Synthesis

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  105. CPU-FPGA Co-Optimization for Big Data Applications

    Article • February 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  106. Bandwidth Optimization Through On-Chip Memory Restructuring for HLS

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  107. Caffeine

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  108. Energy-Efficient CNN Implementation on a Deeply Pipelined FPGA Cluster

    Article • August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou, Guojie Luo

  109. Invited - Heterogeneous datacenters

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  110. Energy Efficiency of Full Pipelining: A Case Study for Matrix Multiplication

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  111. ARAPrototyper

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  112. InterFS

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  113. CMOST

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  114. On-chip interconnection network for accelerator-rich architectures

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou

  115. A Fully Pipelined and Dynamically Composable Architecture of CGRA

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peipei Zhou

  116. Automatic memory partitioning and scheduling for throughput and power optimization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, March 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peipei Zhou