Recent Honors and Awards

  • Nam Sung Kim, Center Co-director, the PRISM (PRocessing In Storage and Memory) Center, $35M grant from SRC/DARPA, 2023-2028.
  • Nam Sung Kim: elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2023.
  • Nam Sung Kim: [Best Paper Runner-up Award] Jinghan Huang, Jiaqi Lou, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, EunKyung Lee, and Nam Sung Kim. Making sense of using a SmartNIC to reduce datacenter tax from SLO and TCO perspectives. IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), October 2023.
  • Best Poster Award to Tim Zhang in Deming Chen’s lab, NSF A3D3 Institute Review Meeting, 2023.
  • First Place Winner Award to Hanchen Ye in Deming Chen’s lab, DAC (Design Automation Conference) Ph.D. Forum, 2023.
  • Wen-Mei Hwu, ACM SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award, 2022.
  • Deming Chen, Distinguished Speaker, Distinguished Speaker Series, ECE, Northwestern University, 2022.
  • Deming Chen, Wen-Mei Hwu, et al., Induction of the “FCUDA: Enabling efficient compilation of CUDA kernels onto FPGAs” paper into the TCFPGA Hall of Fame for FPGAs, 2022.
  • Volodymyr Kindratenko, ECE George Anner Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, UIUC, 2022.
  • Zuofu Cheng, ranked as an Excellent Instructor many times by ECE 385 students.