Principal Investigator
Liu Liu
Dr. Liu Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Liu directs the Efficient, Parallel, and Intelligent Computing (EPIC ) Lab at RPI, focusing the research on Elastic AI Computing systems and architecture design. His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Dr. Yuan Xie (now a Chair Professor at HKUST) and Dr. Yufei Ding (now an Associate Professor at UCSD). He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He is a recipient of Peter J Frenkel Fellowship from the Institute of Energy Efficiency at UCSB.
PhD Students
Garrett Gagnon
B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PhD student since Spring 2023
He is researching the intersection between hybrid analog-digital computing and algorithmic advances for the purposes of advancing machine learning processing for transformers.
Zhenyu Liu
B.S. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
PhD student since Fall 2023
He mainly focuses on algorithms and applications of Trustworthy and Efficient AI.
Yayue Hou
B.S. Tongji University
PhD student since Fall 2023
She is now a PhD student in Prof. Liu's EPIC Lab. Her research interest is scalable photonic platforms and systems for AI.
Zhemin 'Hisen' Zhang
B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PhD student since Spring 2024
Zhemin 'Hisen' Zhang is a first-year Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), specializing in Computer Architecture with a focus on Memory Systems, Compute Express Link (CXL), and Transformer models. His research interests lie at the intersection of hardware and software, aiming to optimize computing infrastructure for advanced artificial intelligence applications.
