Yufeng Gu

I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Reetuparna Das. I am working on computer architecture and developing novel hardware and system on accelerating large scale emerging applications.

Before UMich, I obtained a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University in 2020. I did my Bachelor thesis project at Yale University, working with Prof. Xiaoxiao Li and Prof. James Duncan. In summer 2019, I worked as an undergraduate student intern in PARSA at EPFL, advised by Prof. Babak Falsafi.

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Research

My research focuses on computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, near-memory processing and quality of service optimization. I am developing novel hardware and software solutions on accelerating large scale emerging applications, such as precision health and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) workloads.

News

• DX100 is accepted to ISCA 2025. See you in Tokyo!
• MVE is awarded for Distinguished Artifact Honorable Mention from 3/29 artifacts in HPCA 2025!
• CENT is accepted to ASPLOS 2025 and received all badges in artifact evaluation. See you in Rotterdam!
• MVE is accepted to HPCA 2025 and received all badges in artifact evaluation. See you in Las Vegas!
• GenDP is selected as Communications of ACM Research Highlights among 24 papers from all ACM conference in 2023, and will be reprinted in May 2025.
• GenDP is accepted to ISCA 2023 and received all badges in artifact evaluation. See you at Orlando!
• I will join Tenstorrent architecture team at Santa Clara for internship from May 2023.
• I will join Intel Labs for internship from June 2022.
  
• Passed the preliminary exam and become a PhD candidate at University of Michigan!
  
• GenomicsBench is accepted to ISPASS 2021!
  

Selected Publications

PIM Is All You Need: A CXL-Enabled GPU-Free System for Large Language Model Inference
Yufeng Gu*, Alireza Khadem*, Sumanth Umesh, Ning Liang, Xavier Servot, Onur Mutlu, Ravi Iyer, and Reetuparna Das
ASPLOS 2025  /  Paper  /  Slides  /  Code

GenDP: A Framework of Dynamic Programming Acceleration for Genome Sequencing Analysis
Yufeng Gu, Arun Subramaniyan, Tim Dunn, Alireza Khadem, Kuan-yu Chen, Somnath Paul, Md Vasimuddin, Sanchit Misra, David Blaauw, Satish Narayanasamy, Reetuparna Das
ISCA 2023  /  BibTeX  /  Paper  /  Slides  /  Code  /  Lightning Talk
Communications of ACM Research Highlights

GenomicsBench: A Benchmark Suite for Genomics
Arun Subramaniyan, Yufeng Gu, Tim Dunn, Somnath Paul, Md Vasimuddin, Sanchit Misra, Satish Narayanasamy, David Blaauw, Reetuparna Das
ISPASS 2021  /  BibTeX  /  Paper  /  Slides  /  Code  /  Lightning Talk

Multi-site fMRI Analysis Using Privacy-preserving Federated Learning and Domain Adaptation: ABIDE Results
Xiaoxiao Li, Yufeng Gu, Nicha Dvornek, Lawrence Staib, Pamela Ventola, James S. Duncan
Medical image analysis, IF=11.148
MedIA  /  BibTeX  /  Paper  /  Code

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Artifact Honorable Mention in HPCA 2025, selected from 3/29 artifacts.
  (Multi-Dimensional Vector ISA Extension for Mobile In-Cache Computing)
• Communications of ACM Research Highlights, selected among 24 papers from all ACM conferences in 2023.
  (GenDP: A Framework of Dynamic Programming Acceleration for Genome Sequencing Analysis)
• University of Michigan Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant.
  (Pangenome Sequence Alignment Benchmark Suite, $3,000)
• University of Michigan Rackham Conference Travel Grant, 2023, 2025.
• Student Travel Grant for ISCA 2023, HPCA 2025.
• Summer@EPFL Fellowship, 2019.

Talks

• [03/2025] CXL-enabled PIM system for LLM inference at the MCCSys workshop co-located with ASPLOS 2025.
• [03/2024] Genomics Benchmark Suite and Accelerator Design on the Computer Architecture Seminar about at UCF.
• [02/2024] Genomics Benchmark Suite and Accelerator Design at Cornel University.
• [12/2023] Genomics Benchmark Suite and Accelerator Design on the Peisu Xia Forum at ICT, CAS.

Services

• Artifact evaluation reviewer for ISCA 2023, ISCA 2024, IISWC 2021.
  
• University of Michigan graduate program admission reviewer, 2021, 2022.

Industry Experiences

• Intel Labs, Graduate Technical Intern, June 2022 - Aug. 2022.
  
• Tenstorrent Inc., CPU Performance Architect Intern, May 2023 - Aug. 2023.

Design and source code from Jon Barron and Jiacheng Ma