Peipei Zhou is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Brown University, School of Engineering. She leads the Customized Computer Architecture Research Lab at Brown University. Dr. Zhou received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Southeast University, Chien-Shiung Wu Honor College in 2012, her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019, both from University of California, Los Angeles.

Zhou’s research focuses on creating Customized Computer Architecture and Programming Abstraction for Applications including Healthcare, e.g., Precision Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence. She is the recipient of the 2026 NSF CAREER Award 🏆. She has been selected for the 2026 National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 🏆, recognizing her exceptional research and technical leadership among early-career engineers. She also received “Outstanding Recognition in Research” Award from UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in 2019 🏆. Her research has received the 2025 IEEE/ACM ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award 🏆, 2026 ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Best Paper Award 🏆, and 2019 IEEE TCAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award 🏆. Additional recognitions include 🏆2025 ACM/SIGDA FPGA Best Paper Nominee, 2024 IEEE IGSC Best Viewpoint Paper, 2023 ACM/IEEE IGSC Best Viewpoint Paper Finalist, the 2018 IEEE ISPASS Best Paper Nominee, and the 2018 IEEE/ACM ICCAD Best Paper Nominee🏆.

I’m actively recruiting PhD students and research interns! Self-motivated students with relevant research and project experience (compiler, GPU and FPGA programming, artificial intelligence algorithm and application development, etc.) are highly encouraged to contact me via email.
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