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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 role, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University from 2019 to 2022. At Stanford, he operated as a faculty-equivalent research advisor at the Stanford Agile Hardware (AHA) center, where he focused on creating high-performance, energy-efficient architectures and domain-specific hardware acceleration, thus advancing agile software-hardware co-design methodologies. He has over ten years of experience in building complex digital System on Chips (SoCs) and Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) prototypes, utilizing agile flow tools that have supported the tapeouts of numerous academic chips across nodes from 180nm to 12nm. His contributions to the field have earned him recognition 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 and development in hardware acceleration and agile methodologies.
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