News & achievements

April 2026: Career Award received from Ministry of Education

April 2026: Best Paper Award received in DATE 2026 (Student: Tianyi Yu, et al.)

March 2026: Best Student Poster Award received @Kezhuo Ma on high-performance D/A converter design.

March 2026: Invited talk at ICAC2026 on high-performance D/A converters.

February 2026: SSCL paper accepted on SRAM-based CiM for edge AI.

February 2026: Xiangqi Dong will join as Postdoc and is awarded ZHANG Keqian Postdoc.

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January 2026: we wrote a review paper on high-performance D/A design in Electromagnetic Science.

December 2025: Jianfeng Wang receives BEST IEEE CEDA Ph.D. Forum Award

December 2025: Taixin Li receives research grant from China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生)

December 2025: Taixin Li receives NSFC grant on compute in 3D NAND flash（国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目-博士研究生）

November 2025: Journal of Supercomputing paper accepted on a survey of hybrid/SRAM Compute-in-Memory.

November 2025: DATE 2026 paper accepted on hybrid ROM/SRAM Compute-in-Memory.

November 2025: DATE 2026 paper accepted on sparse DNN compression using Compute-in-Memory.

October 2025: Organized a workshop of "Intelligent Sensing, Processing and 3D Integration" in 27th CIE Annual Young Scholar Forum at Hangzhou.

October 2025: Organized 1st IEEE CCMCC in Dresdon, Germany.

September 2025: Invited talk at Online Workshop on In-Memory and In-Storage Processing

September 2025: Invited talk at ICCS2025 on high-performance D/A converters

September 2025: Invited talk at Nature Conferences on high-performance D/A converters

September 2025: TCAS-I paper accepted on NVM-based CiM calibration techniques.

August 2025: Invited talk at 2025 CCF China Storage on high-density CMOS Compute-in-Memory.

August 2025: Nature Communications Paper accepted on Ferroelectric Capacitor-based Compute-in-Memory (Full-text Link)

August 2025: ASSCC2025 paper accepted on power-efficient Compute-in-SRAM.

August 2025: CCMCC2025 paper accepted on digital Compute-in-ROM+SRAM.

August 2025: CCMCC2025 paper accepted on Compute-in-ROM deployment.

July 2025: Xinyu Zhou received Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate "Qiyan" Program (北京市自然科学基金本科生"启研"计划)

July 2025: We wrote a review article on ROM-SRAM hybrid Compute-in-memory in Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems (Full-text Link, PDF).

July 2025: ICCAD2025 paper accepted on digital CiM for compound AI

June 2025: TCAS-I paper accepted on digital ROM-based compute-in-memory.

June 2025: JSSC paper accepted on a 16-bit 10GS/s D/A converter with SFDR>67dB up to Nyquist.

May 2025: ESSERC2025 paper accepted on an 8-bit 32GS/s D/A converter.

May 2025: ESSERC2025 paper accepted on AFeFET-based compute-in-memory.

April 2025: GLSVLSI2025 paper accepted on Hybrid ROM-SRAM CiM deployment.

March 2025: JSSC paper accepted on High-density Hybrid-SRAM/ROM Compute-in-Memory for Transformer AI Acceleration.

February 2025: A 1.6M Grant received on data converter design.

February 2025: Chaired ISSCC2025 Compute-in-Memory Session.

February 2025: DAC2025 paper accepted on FeFET-PUF-based secure CiM

February 2025: DAC2025 paper accepted on Processing-in-Memory for Ultra-Long-Sequence Transformer

January 2025: ISCAS 2025 paper accepted on 2D-TFT CiM.

January 2025: ISCAS 2025 paper accepted on 3D-TFT CiM

January 2025: ISCAS 2025 paper accepted on BNN acceleration.

December 2024: Nature Communication paper accepted on FeFET-based strong PUF.

December 2024: A 2.85M grant received from industry on high-speed D/A converter design.

December 2024: Joined the editorial committee of Microelectronics (微电子学).

December 2024: TCAS-II paper accepted on a 8-bit 16GS/s D/A converter.

December 2024: Invited talk at Fuzhou University on D/A and CiM.

December, 2024: Juejian to present his Ph.D. works in ASP-DAC2024 Student Research Forum (SRF).

November 2024: A 2M Grant received from NSFC on compute-in-memory.

November 2024: DATE 2025 paper accepted on fully-digital compute-in-ROM.

November 2024: Invited talk at Ningbo YONGHUA Innovation Center on low-power electronics.

October 2024: Received 2024 Beijing Excellent Textbook Award

October 2024: Invited talk at Chinese Academy of Sciences YanQi Youth Forum on Cross-layer co-design.

September 2024: Invited talk at CCF HPC China on high-density CiM.

August 2024: IEDM 2024 paper accepted on Ferroelectric compute-in-memory.

August 2024: ASP-DAC2025 paper accepted on high-density fully digital Compute-in-memory.

August 2024: ASP-DAC2025 paper accepted on ultra-high-density CMOS parasitics-based Compute-in-memory.

August 2024: ASSCC2024 paper accepted on very-high-density QLC CMOS-ROM-based compute-in-memory.

July 2024: Presented ROM-SRAM hybrid CiM at CCF CHIP202 @Shanghai.

July 2024: Organized a forum on emerging device and computing @ CCF CHIP2024@Shanghai.

July 2024: Presented a teaching tutorial on digital logic and CPU @Xining.

July 2024: Invited as JSSC Guest Editor.

July 2024: Awarded as ZHOU Bingkun Scholar.

July 2024: CCS2024 paper accepted on Compute-in-Memory security.

July 2024: ICCAD2024 paper accepted on 3D NAND-based tabular data processing.

July 2024: ICCAD2024 paper accepted on FeFET-based Compute-in-Memory.

July 2024: A 1.7M Grant received from industry on high-speed D/A converter

June 2024: Outstanding Paper of 2023 received from Journal of Electronics & Information Technology.

April 2024: Invited talk at Xiamen University on Compute-in-Memory.

April 2024: Invited talk at YOCSEF Greater Bay Area Forum on Compute-in-Memory.

March 2024: Invited talk at ICAC2024@Shanghai on Compute-in-memory.

March 2024: Joined ISSCC TPC (Memory Subcommittee).

March 2024: Presented ROM-SRAM hybrid CiM work in ICAC@Shanghai.

February 2024: DAC2024 paper accepted on TFT-based edge compute-in-memory.

February 2024: DAC2024 paper accepted on CMOS-RRAM hybrid compute-in-memory.

February 2024: Promoted to Tenured Associate Professor. Thanks to all!

February 2024: A 9M Grant received on data converter design and automation from industry.

February 2024: A 1.7M Grant received on high-speed D/A converter design from industry.

January 2024: Jialong to present his Ph.D. works in DATE2024 Ph.D. Forum.

January 2024: CICC2024 paper accepted on a high-speed 16b D/A converter chip.

January 2024: CICC2024 paper accepted on ROM/SRAM hybrid CiM for high memory density and energy efficiency.

January 2024: ACM TODAES paper accepted on FeFET-based logic locking/camouflaging techniques.

November 2023: TCAS-I paper accepted on large-area TFT-based eDRAM-CiM and ROM-CiM chips.

November 2023: Invited talk on high-performance D/A design in Nantong Univ. JiangHai Forum.

November 2023: DATE2024 paper accepted on hardware security of key delivery.

November 2023: DATE2024 paper accepted on Hyper-dimensional computing.

October 2023: JSSC paper accepted on High-density ROM-based CiM. Congrats to all!

October 2023: Organized the Compute-in-Memory forum in CCF-DAC 2023 at Beijing.

September 2023: TCAS-I paper accepted on TFT eDRAM-based CiM.

September 2023: ASP-DAC2024 paper accepted on quantization for CiM.

September 2023: IEDM2023 paper accepted on 3D CiM.

September 2023: Talk at HK Univ. of Science and Tech. on CiM.

August 2023: Talk at CCF HPC@Qingdao on Practical CiM.

July 2023: ICCAD 2023 paper accepted on FeFET-based MLC cache hierarchy.

July 2023: ICCAD 2023 paper accepted on SRAM-RRAM-based hybrid CiM (with Prof. Yanan Sun).

July 2023: Joined IEEE Trans. on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) as AE.

June 2023: Talk at CSTIC 2023 on making CiM practical.

June 2023: IEEE TETC paper accepted on highly parallel & flexible compute-in-memory.

May 2023: Invited talk in CCF Post-Moore EDA.

May 2023: ACM TODAES paper accepted on memory protection.

May, 2023: IFETC-2023 paper accepted on TFT-based ADC design

May 2023: ISVLSI-2023 paper accepted on 3D GCN acceleration with Fe-based CiM.

May 2023: ISVLSI-2023 paper accepted on NEM-based content-addressable memory search acceleration.

May 2023: TCAS-I paper accepted on hybrid RRAM-SRAM CiM (CREAM).

May 2023: EDL paper accepted on high-reliability ferroelectric memory (C2FeRAM).

April, 2023: Talk at 2023 CIE Young Scientist Forum on ROM-based CiM

April, 2023: Talk at PKU on TFT-based CiM

April 2023: Elevated as CCF Senior Member.

April 2023: Joined IEEE Trans. VLSI Editorial Board as AE.

April 2023: TCAS-I paper accepted on Single-ADC SRAM-based CiM.

April 2023: AICAS2023 paper accepted on weight-lock for compute-in-memory accelerators.

March 2023: Joined Journal of Electronics & Information Technology as AE.

March 2023: Talk at SMIC on FeFET circuits design.

February 2023: TCAS-I Paper accepted on FeFET-based Logic-in-Memory acceleration.

February 2023: DAC2023 paper accepted on variation-resilient compute-in-memory.

February 2023: DAC2023 paper accepted on compute-in-memory for Genome Sequence Analysis.

February 2023: TCAS-I Paper accepted on a 16-bit high-speed D/A converter.

January 2023: Joined AICAS2023 TPC.

December 2022: TVLSI paper accepted on a time-interleaved 6GS/s D/A converter.

December 2022: TCAS-II paper accepted on FAST: a fully-concurrent access SRAM topology.

October 2022: A 1M NSFC grant received on 3D memory.

October 2022: A 1M industry grant received on leakage-negligible refresh-free embedded dynamic memory.

August 2022: TVLSI paper accepted on multi-level TCAM design for NN acceleration. Congrats to Xiaoyang

July 2022: A 1M/year grant received from Mercedes-Benz. Thank you!

July 2022: ICCAD paper accepted on flexible and scalable high-density computing-in-ROM.

July 2022: IFETC paper accepted on 3D TFT-based computing-in-eDRAM.

June 2022: Award received: Tsinghua University Excellent Faculty

May 2022: ESSCIRC paper accepted on single-ADC Computing-in-SRAM.

May 2022: Invited talk in Prof. Xiaojun Guo's group in Shanghai Jiaotong University on CiM.

May 2022: Invited talk on TFT-based CiM at the forum of "Emerging Memory and Computing".

March 2022: Joined ISVLSI TPC.

February 2022: DAC2022 paper accepted on RRAM-Assisted Compute-in-Memory.

February 2022: DAC2022 paper accepted on ROM-based Compute-in-Memory.

February 2022: Paper accepted to Flexible and Printed Electronics on TFT-based Compute-in-Memory.

January 2022: Paper accepted to ISCAS2022 on FeFET-based dense nvSRAM.

January 2022: Paper accepted to SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences on D/A converter design.

January 2022: Award received: EE Excellent Faculty 2021.

16b 15GS/s D/A converter design

Tsinghua University EE Initiative Scientific Research Program · 0.5M · 2025/4-2027/6

2026 National Career Award (2026年国家高层次人才计划入选）

IGZO-based CiM for edge LLM acceleration

Industry · 1.0M · 2025/7/1 – 2026/6/30

2026 DATE2026 Best Paper Award on high-density ROM-SRAM CiM (Student Tianyi Yu et al).

Compute-in-NAND for edge LLM acceleration

Industry · 1.0M · 2025/7/1 – 2026/6/30

2026 ICAC2026 Best Student Poster Award on high-performance D/A converter design (Student Kezhuo Ma).

High-dynamic-range D/A converter

Industry · 1.6M · 2025/1/1 - 2025/12/31

2025 BEST IEEE CEDA Ph.D. FORUM AWARD (Student Jianfeng Wang)

Research on Key Technologies of Novel Copper-based Atom Switch Computing-in-memory for End-side Applications

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · co-PI · 2.0M · 01/2025-12/2028

2025 China Association for Science and Technology (Taixin Li, 中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生)

High-speed data converter design

Industry · 2.85M · 2024/12 - 2026/6

2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for Youth Student Basic Research Project (Doctoral Student)（Taixin Li, 国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目-博士研究生）

Communication data converter design

Industry · 1.7M · 2024/7 - 2025/6

2025 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate "Qiyan" Program (Xinyu Zhou, 北京市自然科学基金本科生“启研”计划)

Data converter design and automation

Industry · 9.15M · 2023/12 - 2025/10

2025 Tsinghua University First-Class Teaching Achievement Award (2025年清华大学教学成果一等奖，电子信息学科“双课堂协同”实践育人新模式探索与实践, 排名第四)

High-reliability smart memory for automobile applications

Industry (Daimler Mercedes-Benz) · PI · 1M · 2022/8 - 2023/8

2024 Tsinghua University Outstanding Teaching Award (清华大学2024年度教学优秀奖)

Leakage-negligible refresh-free embedded dynamic memory

Industry · PI · 1M · 10/2022 - 10/2025

2024 Beijing Excellent Textbook Award

2T0C cell using oxide semiconductor transistors by atomic layer deposition for 3D-DRAM application

National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · co-PI · 1.0M · 01/2023-12/2026

2024 ZHOU Bingkun Scholar Award of THU-EE (清华大学周炳琨学者) [ News-link ]

Research of Key Techniques for Internet-of-Things Ferroelectric Integrated Chips

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · PI · 2.61M · 01/2022-12/2025

2024 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Award (Student Jianfeng Wang)

High-density low-power ferroelectric circuits

Industry · PI · 2M · 2021/9-2023/3

2024 Outstanding Paper 2023 of Journal of Electronics & Information Technology

Emerging memory and compute-in-memory techniques for artificial intelligence

BNRist · PI · RMB 300k · 2021/1-2021/12

2024 Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Teng Wan，清华大学优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

Data converters

Industry · PI · 5M · 2021/1-2026/1

2024 EE Department Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Teng Wan，清华大学电子系优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

Data converters

Industry · PI · 1.5M · 2020/11-2023/11

2024 ZHANG Yujin Book Award (电子系章毓晋图书奖)

Nanometer-Scale FinFET-Process High-Performance Analog-to-Digital Converter Design

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · co-PI · 600k · 61934009 · 01/2020-12/2024

2023 Tsinghua University EE Department Feng Zhongxi Award(电子系冯重熙优秀教师奖)

Large-Scale Thin-Film-Based Intelligent Edge Computing Circuits and Systems

National key research and development program · PI and theme leader · RMB 5.8M of 26M · 2019YFA0706100(2) · 12/2019-11/2024

2023 Tsinghua University Outstanding Master Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Xinrui Guo，清华大学优秀硕士生毕业设计论文)

Research on Energy-Efficient Circuits based on Steep-Slope Devices

National key research and development program · PI · RMB 600k · 1/2020-12/2024

2023 Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Taixin Li，北京市优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

Memory-Centric Computing for Next-Generation AI Processors

Tsinghua University EE Initiative Scientific Research Program · PI · RMB 3M · 7/2019-7/2022

2023 Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Taixin Li，清华大学优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

Ferroelectric circuits design for machine learning processors

Ministry of Education Key Lab Open Research Program · PI · RMB 40k · 7/2019 - 6/2021

2023 CCF Integrated Circuits Executive Committee Member

Emerging High-Performance Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems

National Early-Career Award Program · PI · RMB 3M · 6/2019-6/2023

2023 CCF Senior Member

Research on FeFET-Based On-Chip Nonvolatile Memory and Computing

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · PI · RMB 660k · 61874066 · 01/2019-12/2022

2022 ZHENG Junli Award (郑君里教学奖)

Normally-off Nonvolatile Intelligent Computing Chips for Internet of Things

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) · Key Researcher · 61720106013 · 01/2018-12/2022

2022 Tsinghua University Faculty Excellence Award (清华大学先进个人)

Start-up funding support, PI, RMB 3M

2022 Tsinghua University Outstanding Teaching Award (课程思政模范教师)

2022 EE Department Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Jianfeng Wang，清华大学电子系优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2022 EE Department Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Xiaoyang Ma，清华大学电子系优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2022 The National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates Advisor Award (Student: Taixin Li, 国家级大学生创新创业训练项目)

2021 Tsinghua University EE Department Faculty Excellence Award

2021 Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Hongtao Zhong，北京市优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2021 Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Hongtao Zhong，清华大学优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2022 EE Department Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Yiming Chen，清华大学电子系优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2021 The National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates Advisor Award (Student: Xiaoyang Ma, 国家级大学生创新创业训练项目)

2020 IEEE Senior Member

2020 Tsinghua University Outstanding SRT Program Advisor Award (Students: Mingyen Lee, Wenjun Tang, Bowen Xue)

2020 Spring Tsinghua University Excellent Online Teaching Award (2020春在线教学优秀奖)

2020 The National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates Advisor Award (Student: Hongtao Zhong, 国家级大学生创新创业训练项目)

2020 Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Student: Guodong Yin，清华大学优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2020 Tsinghua University Future Scholar Program Advisor Award (Student: Hongtao Zhong, 未来学者计划)

2020 Tsinghua University EE Department Faculty Excellence Award (先进工作者)

2019 Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Students: Juejian Wu，北京市优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2019 Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor Award (Students: Juejian Wu，清华大学优秀本科生毕业设计论文)

2019 Tsinghua University Outstanding SRT Program Advisor Award (with Students Hongtao Zhong and Mingyang Gu)

2019 National Early-Career Award (国家高层次人才计划青年项目）

2017 DARPA STARnet/LEAST Center Best Publication Award

2017 IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS) Best Paper Award

2017 ASP-DAC 2017 Best Paper Award

2016 IEEE Micro Top Picks

2015 HPCA Best Paper Award