Deming Chen

Deming Chen is the Abel Bliss Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include hybrid cloud systems, machine learning and AI, security and confidential computing, reconfigurable and heterogeneous computing, and system-level design methodologies. He has published over 280 research papers, received 10 Best Paper Awards and an ACM/SIGDA TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame Paper Award, and delivered more than 150 invited talks. His work has had a significant impact, with open-source solutions adopted by industry, such as FCUDA, DNNBuilder, CSRNet, SkyNet, ScaleHLS, and Medusa. Notably, Medusa has been integrated into Nvidia's TensorRT-LLM, improving the speed of large language model (LLM) execution by 1.9-3.6x. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). Under his leadership, the impact factor of ACM TRETS has increased by 3.8 times. He serves as the Illinois Director of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute and the Director of the AMD-Xilinx Center of Excellence. Additionally, he has been involved in several startup companies, including AutoESL and Inspirit IoT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2005.