- Sarita Adve: Invited talk, VisArch: A Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Neural Rendering, AR/VR, and Visual Computing, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2026.
- Sarita Adve: Member, Government Affairs Committee of the Computing Research Association (CRA), February 2026 -January 2029.
- Deming Chen: Induction of the “DAOmap: A Depth-Optimal Area Optimization Mapping Algorithm for FPGA Designs” paper into the TCFPGA Hall of Fame, 2026.
- Deming Chen: Keynote Speaker, High Performance, Edge And Cloud computing (HiPEAC -one of the largest conferences in Europe), Kraków, Poland, 2026.
- Deming Chen: Keynote Speaker, NOBE (National Organization for Business and Engineering), 2026.
- Deming Chen: ACM Distinguished Speaker 2026-present.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) Best Paper Award, 2025.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) Best Paper Award Finalist, 2025.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) Best Paper, Honorable Mention, 2025.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) Distinguished Artifact Award, 2025.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE Micro Top Picks, Honorable Mention, 2025.
- Nam Sung Kim: ASPLOS Distinguished Reviewer, 2025.
- Sarita Adve: Immersed in the Reality of Sarita Adve, Interview for DAC-Cast, the official podcast of DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference, December 2025.
- Sarita Adve: Yihan Pang, Sushant Kondgulli, Shenlong Wang, Sarita Adve, “Ada: A Distributed, Power-Aware, Real-Time Scene Provider for XR,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), special issue of papers presented at ISMAR’25, October 2025. Best paper award at ISMAR’25.
- Sarita Adve: UIUC Grainger College of Engineering Award for Leadership or Institutional Impact in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2025.
- Sarita Adve: Keynote, NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, March 2025.
- Sarita Adve: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap 2.0, September 2025. Led the writing of Section 1.3 (Extended Reality (XR)) of Chapter 1 (Application Drivers and System Requirements), one of three sections describing requirements of critical workloads in the evolving AI landscape and implicationsfor the semiconductor industry.
- Sarita Adve: 2025 IMMERSE symposium: attracted about 250 attendees from 40+ organizations
- Minjia Zhang: Amazon Research Award 2025 (One of 61 recipients selected globally)
- Minjia Zhang: Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award 2025 (One of 50 recipients selected globally)
- Minjia Zhang: Supervised student recipient of SC 2025 Best Student Paper Award
- Minjia Zhang: Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Inaugural CS 498 Machine Learning Systems, UIUC Spring 2025)
- Minjia Zhang: NSF CAREER Award 2025
- Deming Chen: ACM Fellow, 2025
- Deming Chen: Member, National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), 2025
- Deming Chen: Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2025
- Deming Chen: Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing (WRC), 2025
- Deming Chen: Distinguished Speaker, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Buffalo, 2025
- Volodymyr Kindratenko: Academic Excellence Award, First place in Innovative Tools category, Instructure, 2025.
- Zuofu Cheng: on the list of excellent teachers
- Nam Sung Kim: Best of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) Paper, 2024.
- Nam Sung Kim: IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) Best Paper Award, 2024.
- 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.
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