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📣 📣 📣 🎉 Dr. Peipei Zhou has been selected to participate in the 2026 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium is a signature program of the National Academy of Engineering that brings together 74 highly accomplished early-career engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work across academia, industry, and government.

📣 📣 📣 🎉🏆 Excited to share that our paper “Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Data Centers via Carbon Depreciation Models” has received the Best Paper Award at the 16th ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2026)!

📣 📣 📣 🎉 Sharing News from Brown Engineering News: Peipei Zhou, assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation.

📣 📣 📣 Thrilled to share that our two papers ‘‘To Overlay or to Customize? Revisiting Architectural Choices in Heterogeneous Systems’’ (Student Lead: Xingzhen Chen) and ‘‘Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Data Centers via Carbon Depreciation Models’’ (Student Lead: Shixin Ji) have been accepted by the ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference 2026 (IGSC 2026)!

📣 📣 📣 Thrilled to share that our two papers ‘‘DORA: Dataflow-Instruction Orchestration Architecture for DNN Acceleration’’ (Student Lead: Xingzhen Chen) and ‘‘μ-ORCA: Optimizing Acceleration for Microsecond-Scale Deep Neural Network Inference on ACAP’’ (Student Lead: Shixin Ji) have been accepted by the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026 (GLSVLSI 2026)!

I am very delighted to share that Jinming will be joining Rochester Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor in Computer Engineering starting in August 2026. This is a well-deserved milestone that reflects Jinming’s outstanding research, hard work, and dedication.

Delighted to share that Zhuoping will be joining NVIDIA, AI Storage Infrastructure team, as a summer intern from June to August 2026. This is a great opportunity to engage with cutting-edge work in AI and computing systems.

📣 📣 📣 Congratulations to Shixin Ji and Xingzhen Chen on being named DAC Young Fellows 2026 at the 63rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2026)! The DAC Young Fellow program recognizes promising emerging researchers and professionals with strong potential and contributions in electronic design automation, providing support to attend and engage with the Design Automation Conference.

📣 📣 📣 Thrilled to share that our two papers ‘‘FILCO: Flexible Composing Architecture with Real-Time Reconfigurability for DNN Acceleration’’ (Student Lead: Xingzhen Chen) and ‘‘PHAROS: Pipelined Heterogeneous Accelerators for Real-time Safety-critical Systems With Deadline Compliance’’ (Student Lead: Shixin Ji) have been accepted by the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2026)!

📣 📣 📣 Prof. Zhou was honored with the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), held in Munich, Germany in October.