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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, where he operated as a faculty-equivalent research advisor at the Stanford Agile Hardware (AHA) center. He worked on creating high-performance, energy-efficient architectures for domain-specific hardware acceleration and supported an agile software-hardware co-design methodology. With ten years of experience building complex digital System on Chips (SoCs) and Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) prototypes, he played a crucial role in the development of new agile flow tools that supported tapeouts of a dozen academic chips and implemented technologies ranging from 180nm to 12nm. His research activities led to his selection as a Rising Star in Computer Architecture by Georgia Tech and as an IEEE MICRO Top Pick at Hot Chips.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Conducted research on high-performance hardware architectures and agile co-design methodologies.
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