Dr. Christopher Torng

Biography

Christopher Torng joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in 2023. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University from 2019 to 2022. During his time there, he served as a faculty-equivalent research advisor at the Stanford Agile Hardware center, where he focused on developing high-performance energy-efficient architectures and domain-specific hardware acceleration. His work supported agile software-hardware co-design methodologies. Christopher has over ten years of experience in building complex digital System-on-Chips (SoCs), including Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) prototypes, and has worked with new agile flow tools that have facilitated multiple academic chip tapeouts, implementing technologies ranging from 180nm to 12nm. His contributions to the field have garnered recognition, including being selected as a Rising Star in Computer Architecture by Georgia Tech and receiving the IEEE MICRO Top Pick award from Hot Chips.

Research Interests