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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>TW's Research Group - Home</title> <meta name="description" content="TW's Research Group - Home"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="/"> <link rel="shortcut icon" type ="image/x-icon" href="/images/favicon.ico">  <script src="/js/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-82472331-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> </head> <body> <div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="navbar-header"> <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="navbar-brand" href="/">TW@UW-Madison</a> </div> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbar-collapse-1"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"> <li><a href="/allnews.html">News</a></li> <li><a href="/team/">Team</a></li> <li><a href="/research/">Research</a></li> <li><a href="/courses/">Courses</a></li> <li><a href="/publications/">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/talks/">Talks</a></li> <li><a href="/pictures/">Life</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div id="homeid" class="col-sm-8"> <h2 id="welcome-to-tws-research-group">Welcome to TW鈥檚 Research Group</h2> <p>We are a research group supervised by <a href="/team#faculty">Prof. Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang</a> at the <a href="https://engineering.wisc.edu/departments/electrical-computer-engineering/">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)</a> in the <a href="https://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin at Madison</a>. Our group creates novel software systems to simplify the building of performance-critical applications, such as electronic design automation (EDA), machine learning (ML), and quantum computing. Our software has been used by thousands of people in industry and academia.</p> <center><div style="max-width: 600px"> <img src="/images/respic/theme_parallelism_3p_app.png" style="max-width: 100%" /> </div></center> <h2 id="where-are-we">Where Are We?</h2> <p>Our research group is situated at the beautiful <a href="https://www.cityofmadison.com/">Madison City</a> - an Isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. Madison has been consistently placed top in the list of <a href="https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live-for-quality-of-life">Best Places to Live in the US</a> and <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/slideshows/10-great-college-towns">Top College Towns in the US</a>.</p> <center><div style="max-width: 700px"> <p><img src="/images/album/uw-madison-campus.jpeg" style="max-width: 100%" /></p> </div></center>  <p>According to <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/electrical-engineering-rankings">2024 US News</a>, the ECE Department of UW-Madison is ranked #9 among public universities and #15 among all universities.</p> <center><div style="max-width: 700px"> <p><img src="/images/newspic/2024-UW-Madison-ECE-Ranking.jpeg" style="max-width: 100%" /></p> </div></center> <h2>Join us!</h2> <p>We are looking for <em>highly self-motivated</em> PhD, MS, and undergraduate students to join us, doing research on <strong>parallel computing</strong>, <strong>computer-aided design</strong>, <strong>quantum computing</strong>, and <strong>machine learning systems</strong>. My students have been collaborating and working with many companies, such as Nvidia, Intel, Cadence, Synopsys, IBM, Google, Huawei, and so on.</p> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/"><img src="/images/logopic/nvidia-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.intel.com/"><img src="/images/logopic/intel-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.cadence.com"><img src="/images/logopic/cadence-logo.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.drivevariant.com/"><img src="/images/logopic/variant-logo.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.ibm.com/en-us/"><img src="/images/logopic/ibm-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.synopsys.com/en-us/"><img src="/images/logopic/synopsys-logo.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/"><img src="/images/logopic/google-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.huawei.com/en/"><img src="/images/logopic/huawei-logo.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <p>Please <a href="mailto:tsung-wei.huang@wisc.edu">email Prof. Huang</a> your resume and research interest (see our <a href="/research">Research</a> and <a href="/team#why-join-our-team">Why Join Our Team?</a>).</p>  <h2>Sponsors</h2> <p>We are grateful for funding from <a href="https://www.ece.utah.edu/">University of Utah</a>, <a href="https://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin</a>, <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/">National Science Foudation</a>, <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</a>, <a href="https://numfocus.org/">NumFocus</a>, <a href="https://nvidia.com">Nvidia</a>, and <a href="https://www.intel.com/">Intel</a>.</p> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.ece.utah.edu/"><img src="/images/logopic/utah-ece-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/"><img src="/images/logopic/nsf.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/"><img src="/images/logopic/darpa.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/"><img src="/images/logopic/nvidia-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://numfocus.org/"><img src="/images/logopic/NumFocus.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/projects/FgTgRVLt"><img src="/images/logopic/gsoc.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://engineering.wisc.edu/departments/electrical-computer-engineering/"><img src="/images/logopic/uw-madison-ece-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <p><a href="https://www.intel.com/"><img src="/images/logopic/intel-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /></a></p> </div> </div> <p><br /></p> </div> <div id="newsid" class="col-sm-4" > <div class="well"> <h4>News</h4> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 2 March 2025 </span> <p>Our team, <q>TD-Badger</q>, won the Second Place (out of 46 registered teams) in 2025 PPoPP Fast Code Programming Challenge (FCPC)!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 14 Feb 2025 </span> <p>Wan-Luan's paper, <q>iG-kway</q>, is accepted by the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 4 Feb 2025 </span> <p>Shui Jiang's paper, <q>BQSim</q>, is accepted by the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 30 Jan 2025 </span> <p>Our Taskflow-based collaborative project (with Arizona State University and University of Arizona) is accepted by International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions (ExHET) at PPoPP!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 21. Jan 2025 </span> <p>Che (Randy) Chang's paper, <q>PathGen</q>, is nominated for the Best Paper Candidate in 2025 IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 31. Oct 2024 </span> <p>Aditya Das Sarma received the Honorable Mention (6th place out of 90 globally registered teams) in the highly competitive 2024 ICCAD CAD Contest!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 31. Oct 2024 </span> <p>Prof. Huang received the prestigious 2024 ICCAD 10-year Most Influential Paper Award!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 25. Oct 2024 </span> <p>Prof. Huang gave a talk to the Arizona State University (ASU)!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 17. Sep 2024 </span> <p>Thank you, Rivos Inc, for visiting our group and delivering a fantastic talk!</p> <span class="badge-pill badge-info"> 2. Sep 2024 </span> <p>Wan-Luan's, Randy's, and Boyang's papers accepted by 2025 IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). Congratulations!</p> <h4><a href="/allnews.html">... see all News</a></h4> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="panel panel-footer">  <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6"> <p align="center">© 2019-2025 Dr. Tsung-Wei Huang</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://engineering.wisc.edu/departments/electrical-computer-engineering/">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</a></p> <p align="center"><a href="https://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI</a></p> </div> <div class="col-sm-6"> <p align ="center">Contact: tsung-wei.huang at wisc dot edu</p> <p align ="center">1415 Engineering Dr, Madison, WI 53706</p> <p align ="center">(<a href="https://map.wisc.edu/s/zhs4mefy">Campus Maps</a>) </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>