News

  • [Oct, 2024] Congratulations to Xiaoyang and Huanting winning the AI SuperConnector Award; Each is given a £20K seed fund to commercialise their research.
  • [March, 2024] Received CGO 2024 Test-of-time Award for my CGO’13 paper; selected as a paper that was published 10 – 12 years prior and has had a lasting impact on the field.
  • [September, 2023] New 24-month Innovative UK project awarded (PI) - An RA post will open soon.
  • [May, 2023] New EPSRC-funded project (PI) on buidling secure and high-performance memory allocators

Research Team

Meet the team

Research Fellows

PhD Students

  • Jiayu Zhao, 10 / 2020 - (Funded by PhD Scholarship);
  • Shenghao Qiu, 10 / 2020 - 12 / 2024 (Funded by industry PhD studentship) - now Research Fellow in University of York;
  • Yin Wu, 01 / 2021 -, Funded by PhD studentship (co-supervised with James Jianqiao Yu from University of York);
  • Yachao Zhu, 04 / 2021 - (Funded by PhD Scholarship);
  • Patrick Lenihan, 10 / 2021 - (Funded by School of Computing DTP Scholarship);
  • Huanting Wang, 10 / 2021 - (Funded by PhD Scholarship);
  • Beite Yang, 10 / 2021 - (co-supervised with Amirul Khan and Peter Jimack, funded by CFD CDT);
  • Yiming Ma, 09 / 2023 - (Funded by PhD scholarship);
  • Hua Wei Zhang, 10 / 2023 - (Funded by DTP scholarship);
  • Ce Yang, 10 / 2023 -
  • Xiao Qin, 10 / 2024 -
  • Yucheol Choi, 03 / 2025 -

Research Assistants and Software Engineers

Alumni

  • Chunwei Xia 05 / 2023 - 09 / 2024 - now Lecturer at University of Leeds
  • Xiaoyang Sun 10 / 2019 - 11 / 2023 - now Research Fellow at University of Leeds
  • Yiming Wang Visiting PhD Student 2023 - 2024
  • Rodrigo Caetano Rocha 10 / 2016 - 07 / 2021 - now Senior Researcher at Huawei Edinburgh Lab
  • Ben Taylor (PhD Student) - firt job: Transport for the North
  • Vicent Sanz Marco (PDRA) - Assistant professor at Osaka University, Japan
  • Volker Seeker (PDRA) - now with Meta AI
  • Guixin Ye - now associate professor at Northwest University; Best paper award nomination at CCS 2018, ACM China Best PhD Dissertation Award (Shaanxi Province).
  • William Ogilvie 09 / 2014 - 01 / 2018 (PhD student, co-supervised with Hugh Leather from the University of Edinburgh) - first job: Amazon; ACM SRC Gold Medal recipient
  • Jie Ren (Visiting PhD student, 09 / 2015 - 03 / 2016, visiting scholar, 03/2019 - 03/2020) - Now Associate Professor at ShaanXi Normal University, China

Awards and Recognition

  • CGO 2024 Test-of-Time Award
  • Named among Standford World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Facebook research award, 2021
  • Best Paper Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2017, ACM/IEEE PACT 2017, ACM/IEEE CGO 2019
  • Best Paper Nomination: ACM SC 2023, ACM CCS 2018, ACM SenSys 2019
  • Best Presentation Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2013
  • HiPEAC Paper Award: ASPLOS 2024, PLDI 2021, PLDI 2020, PLDI 2009 - for “publishing their work at conferences in which Europe is not strongly represented”
  • IBM Bravo! Award for outstanding technical contribution to Software Development Toolkit for IBM CELL BroadBand Engine Processor, IBM: 2007

Services

Professional Services

Research Projects

University of Leeds - Turing Intelligence Technology Ltd KTP

Innovative UK, PI, 2024 - 2026

M4Secure: Making Memory Management More Secure

EPSRC, PI, 2023 - 2026

Modernise Compiler Technology through Deep Learning

EPSRC, PI, 2023 - 2025

Compiler Optimisation for ARM Big.LITTLE Architecture

Industry, PI, 2021 - 2024

Accelerating DNNs on GPUs

Facebook (Meta) Faculty Award, PI, 2021 - 2024

Accelerate large-scale deep learning model inference for natural language processing

Alibaba, PI, 2021 - 2022

Automated Distributed Deep Learning Model Generation

Alibaba, PI, 2021 - 2022

Toward Easy Parallel Programming

The Royal Society International Collaboration Grant, PI, 03/2020 - 03/2022

Socially Responsible AI for Distributed Autonomous Systems

White Rose Collaboration Grant, CoI, 2020 - 2021

CIDER: Crowd-based Intelligent Design of EnviRonment

Research England, CoI, 2020

GEM: translational software for outbreak analysis

WelcomeTrust, Co-PI, 2020 - 2021

Software Bug Detection and Fix Generation by Learning from Large Code Examples

The Royal Society International Collaboration Grant, PI, 03/2017 - 03/2019

Energy and Performance Optimisation for Mobile Systems

EPSRC iCASE Studentship with ARM Ltd, PI, 02/2016 - 08/2019

Energy and Performance Optimisaiton on Mobile

Lancaster FST Small Grant, PI, 01 / 2014 - 12 / 2014

Energy-efficient Optimisation for Data Centres

Lancaster University Early Career Grant, PI, 09 / 2013 - 08 / 2014

Teaching

Teaching

  • XJCO1211 Computer Architecture, 2023-
  • XJCO1921 Programming Project, 2021-

Biography

  • July 2019 - , Professor (Associate Professor prior 2022) School of Computing, University of Leeds
  • September 2013 - July 2019, Senior Lecturer (Lecturer prior 2017), School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.
  • 2012 - 2013, Research Associate, the University of Edinbugh.
  • 2007 - 2011, PhD Student, the University of Edinburgh. Nominated for BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award;
  • 2005 - 2007, Research Staff member, IBM China Research Lab

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