Research Interests
- Reconfigurable computing
- Machine learning algorithms and hardware acceleration
- Hybrid cloud - infrastructure, energy, and security
- System-level and high-level synthesis
- Hardware security
Honors and Awards
- (Please refer to the CV for the complete list of awards.)
- Achievement Award for Excellent Teamwork, Aplus Design Technologies, Inc, 2001
- Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC, 2007
- Strathmore's Who's Who, 2007-2008
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2008
- On the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students, Spring 2008
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2009
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors, 2009
- ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, 2010
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2011
- Best Paper Award, Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing, 2011
- Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, 2011
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, 2013
- 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award Nomination, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2014
- IBM Faculty Award, 2014 and 2015
- Keynote speech, IEEE International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification, 2014
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2015-2017, Fudan University, China
- Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 2015
- Keynote speech, IEEE International Conference on ASIC, 2015
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2015
- Keynote paper, Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2016
- 1ST Place Winner, IEEE/ACM DAC International Hardware Design Contest, 2017
- NSF SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Award, together with Inspirit IoT, Inc. 2017
- Invited Speaker, ICC Distinguished Lecture Series at Michigan Tech, 2017
- Invited Distinguished Speaker, Masters & Robots Conference, 2017
- Student Best Research Award, Ph.D. Forum, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 2017 (Supervisor for the student)
- Included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2017
- Plenary Speech, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2018
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, 2018
- Third Place Winner, System Design Contest at Design Automation Conference, 2018
- Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Big Data Analytics & Data Mining, 2018
- Judge, 2018 InnovateFPGA Grand Final Competition, Intel, 2018
- Student Innovation Award, IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge, 2018 (Supervisor for the students)
- Boeing Global Technology Student Recognition Award, 2018 (Supervisor for the students)
- Best Poster Award, IBM AI Horizons Colloquium, 2018
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2018
- NSF SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II Award, with Inspirit IoT, Inc., 2018
- Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2018
- Invited Special Session Speaker, COOL Chips, 2019
- ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2019-2022
- IEEE Fellow, 2019
- Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2019-2022
- First Place Winner, both the FPGA and the GPU categories, System Design Contest at IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 2019
- A. K. Chowdhury Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design, 2020
- Google Faculty Award, 2020
- (Please refer to the CV for the complete list of awards.)
News Articles
- How Illinois and IBM want to combine the best of both worlds for an "ideal" hybrid cloud
- Students spent the summer at IBM in unusual new externship program
- Illinois Named Xilinx Center of Excellence
- CSL Student Receives 2020 Google Ph.D. Fellowship
- Best Paper Award from VLSID'20
- Double Championships at DAC 2019!
- Chen Named as the Next Editor-in-Chief of ACM TRETS
- Chen and Choudhury Elevated as IEEE Fellows
- SDH for DARDA Project
- ICCAD'18 Best Paper Award
- Chen's Startup Inspirit IoT Received SBIR Award
- Inspirit IoT Making Waves
- Illinois/start-up win DAC-IoT competition
- Wired In: Deming Chen | News-Gazette
- Illinois/start-up win DAC-IoT competition
- Chen Co-founded a Startup Inspirit IoT
- ICCAD'15 Best Paper Award
- High-level Synthesis on Fire
- FCCM Best Paper Award
- Chen and Li Named 2015 Willett Scholars
- Faculty Receive IBM Recognition, Funding for Research Contributions
- Researchers Release First SPICE-compatible Compact Models for Graphene-based Digital Circuits
- High-level Synthesis on Fire: Research Receives Recognition from Academia, Industry
- ECE Receives Zedboard Donation for Research, Education
- Chen Receives Intel Gift to Study Increasing Computer Performance and Efficiency
- ECE Faculty and Students Win IEEE FCCM Best Paper Award
- Chen and Hwu Win IEEE SASP'09 Best Paper Award
- Chen Promotes Nanotechnology Research
- Graduate Students and Professor Team Up to Win Best Paper Award
- ECE Faculty Receive CAREER Award
- Illinois Named an OpenSPARC Center of Excellence
Past and Current Research Projects
- (Please refer to the CV for the complete list of research projects.)
- Title: Novel Logic Synthesis for the New Challenges in FPGAs
- Title: Modeling, Mitigating, and Tolerating Faults due to Parameter Variation in Multicores: A Microarchitecture and CAD Approach
- Title: New Techniques in Synthesis and Physical Design for FPGAs
- Title: High-performance Reliable Computing: Addressing the Parameter-variation Challenge through a Cross-disciplinary Architecture, CAD, and Compiler Approach
- Title: CAREER: Nano-Centric Design Methodology for Nanoscale FPGAs
- Title: SOS: A Nanotube-Based Configurable Logic Fabric
- Title: Novel FPGA Synthesis for Low Power
- Title: Reliable Circuit Design Methodology
- Title: Parallel Programming Flow for Efficient FPGA Execution
- Title: GPU, Reconfigurable Computing, and High-level Synthesis for Application Acceleration
- Title: High-Level Synthesis for Accelerator Evaluation and Generation
- Title: Developing an Interdisciplinary Research Program in Cancer Genomics
- Title: Collaborative Research: From High-level Synthesis to Layout: a Cross-layer Methodology for Large-scale Reliable IC Design
- Title: Scalable Synthesis, Exploring Emerging Technologies for Accelerators, and Mapping Diverse Software to Heterogeneous Architectures
- Title: Customized Polyhedral Compilation for Low‐Power High‐Level SoC Synthesis
- Title: DNA Data Error Correction and Compression with IBM Power8 System
- Title: A New Modular and Global High-level Synthesis Engine for Rapid Post-Silicon Validation of Customized Hardware and Accelerators
- Title: Genomic Compression: From Information Theory to Parallel Algorithms
- Title: MegaBrain: Enabling Earth-scale FPGA Networks for Cognitive Computing
- Title: Improving Variant Calling through Deep Learning
- Title: DDARING: Dynamic Data-Aware Reconfiguration, INtegration and Generation
- Title: Machine Learning Algorithm Design and Acceleration for Autonomous Driving Cars
- Title: Object Recognition and Tracking for UAVs with Embedded FPGAs and GPUs
- New: System and Acceleration for Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence
- New: Advanced System-Level Design and Synthesis for FPGAs
- New: YouHome: a Cognitive Solution to Let Your Smart Home Know You Better
- New: Project within NSF Institute for Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3)
- New: Project within IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute (IIDAI)
- New: A Novel Hybrid-Cloud Computing Testbed with Green Energy
- New: vHLS: Verifiable High-level Synthesis
- New: Project within ITI Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES)
- New: Project within AMD/Xilinx Center of Excellence