Peipei Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and director of the Customized Computer Architecture Research Lab at Brown University. She received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Southeast University, Chien-Shiung Wu Honor College in 2012, her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019, both from University of California, Los Angeles.
Zhou's research focuses on creating customized computer architecture and programming abstraction for applications including healthcare, e.g., precision medicine, and artificial intelligence. She is the recipient of the 2026 NSF CAREER Award. She has been selected for the 2026 National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, recognizing her exceptional research and technical leadership among early-career engineers. She also received “Outstanding Recognition in Research” Award from UCLA Samueli School of Engineering in 2019. Her research has received the 2025 IEEE/ACM ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award, 2026 ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Best Paper Award, and 2019 IEEE TCAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award. Additional recognitions include 2025 ACM/SIGDA FPGA Best Paper Nominee, 2024 IEEE IGSC Best Viewpoint Paper, 2023 ACM/IEEE IGSC Best Viewpoint Paper Finalist, the 2018 IEEE ISPASS Best Paper Nominee, and the 2018 IEEE/ACM ICCAD Best Paper Nominee.
| Ji, Shixin, Yang, Zhuoping, Chen, Xingzhen, Jones, Alex, Zhou, Peipei. "Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Data Centers via Carbon Depreciation Models." Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2026, pp. 68-74. |
| Chen, Xingzhen, Yang, Zhuoping, Zhuang, Jinming, Ji, Shixin, Schultz, Sarah, Dong, Zheng, Shi, Weisong, Zhou, Peipei. "DORA: Dataflow-Instruction Orchestration Architecture for DNN Acceleration." Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026, 2026, pp. 487-494. |
| Shi, Weisong, Dong, Zheng, Zhou, Peipei. "Physical Intelligence on the Edge: A Vision for the Decade Ahead." Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2026. |
| Chen, Xingzhen, Ji, Shixin, Dong, Zheng, Zhou, Peipei. "To Overlay or to Customize? Revisiting Architectural Choices in Heterogeneous Systems." Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2026, pp. 183-188. |
| Ji, Shixin, Zhuang, Jinming, Yang, Zhuoping, Chen, Xingzhen, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Peipei. "μ-ORCA: Optimizing Acceleration for Microsecond-Scale Deep Neural Network Inference on ACAP." Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026, 2026, pp. 898-905. |
| Yang, Zhuoping, Zhuang, Jinming, Chen, Xingzhen, Jones, Alex, Zhou, Peipei. "AGILE: Lightweight and Efficient Asynchronous GPU-SSD Integration." Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2025, pp. 1028-1042. |
| Zhuang, Jinming, Xiang, Shaojie, Chen, Hongzheng, Zhang, Niansong, Yang, Zhuoping, Mao, Tony, Zhang, Zhiru, Zhou, Peipei. "ARIES: An Agile MLIR-Based Compilation Flow for Reconfigurable Devices with AI Engines." Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2025, pp. 92-102. |
| Ji, Shixin, Chen, Xingzhen, Zhuang, Jinming, Zhang, Wei, Yang, Zhuoping, Schultz, Sarah, Song, Yukai, Hu, Jingtong, Jones, Alex, Dong, Zheng, Zhou, Peipei. "ART: Customizing Accelerators for DNN-Enabled Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems." Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025, 2025, pp. 442-449. |
| Ji, Shixin, Yang, Zhuoping, Chen, Xingzhen, Zhang, Wei, Zhuang, Jinming, Jones, Alex K., Dong, Zheng, Zhou, Peipei. "DERCA: DetERministic Cycle-Level Accelerator on Reconfigurable Platforms in DNN-Enabled Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems." 2025 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025, pp. 392-405. |
| Tang, Yue, Jones, Alex K., Xiong, Jinjun, Zhou, Peipei, Hu, Jingtong. "MTrain: Enable Efficient CNN Training on Heterogeneous FPGA-Based Edge Servers." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2025, pp. 1-1. |
| Jafarpourmarzouni, Reza, Sumaiya, FNU, Li, Ruoxiang, Guan, Nan, Wang, Guang, Zhou, Peipei, Dong, Zheng. "Reaction Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in Edge-assisted Autonomous Driving." ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2025. |
| Ji, Shixin, Chen, Xingzhen, Zhang, Wei, Yang, Zhuoping, Zhuang, Jinming, Schultz, Sarah, Song, Yukai, Hu, Jingtong, Jones, Alex K., Dong, Zheng, Zhou, Peipei. "Towards Accelerator Customization in Real-time Safety-critical Systems." Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2025, pp. 181-181. |
| "14th International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART'24))." [], 2024. |
| Ji, Shixin, Zhuang, Jinming, Yang, Zhuoping, Jones, Alex K., Zhou, Peipei. "Amortizing Embodied Carbon Across Generations." 2024 IEEE 15th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2024, pp. 64-66. |
| Yang, Zhuoping, Ji, Shixin, Chen, Xingzhen, Zhuang, Jinming, Zhang, Weifeng, Jani, Dharmesh, Zhou, Peipei. "Challenges and Opportunities to Enable Large-Scale Computing via Heterogeneous Chiplets." 2024 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2024. |
| Zhuang, Jinming, Lau, Jason, Ye, Hanchen, Yang, Zhuoping, Ji, Shixin, Lo, Jack, Denolf, Kristof, Neuendorffer, Stephen, Jones, Alex, Hu, Jingtong, Shi, Yiyu, Chen, Deming, Cong, Jason, Zhou, Peipei. "CHARM 2.0: Composing Heterogeneous Accelerators for Deep Learning on Versal ACAP Architecture." ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2024. |
| Tang, Yue, Song, Yukai, Elango, Naveena, Priya, Sheena Ratnam, Jones, Alex K., Xiong, Jinjun, Zhou, Peipei, Hu, Jingtong. "CHEF: A Framework for Deploying Heterogeneous Models on Clusters With Heterogeneous FPGAs." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 43, no. 11, 2024, pp. 3937-3948. |
| Qin, Ruiyang, Xia, Jun, Jia, Zhenge, Jiang, Meng, Abbasi, Ahmed, Zhou, Peipei, Hu, Jingtong, Shi, Yiyu. "Enabling On-Device Large Language Model Personalization with Self-Supervised Data Selection and Synthesis." Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2024, pp. 1-6. |
| Dong, Peiyan, Zhuang, Jinming, Yang, Zhuoping, Ji, Shixin, Li, Yanyu, Xu, Dongkuan, Huang, Heng, Hu, Jingtong, Jones, Alex K., Shi, Yiyu, Wang, Yanzhi, Zhou, Peipei. "EQ-ViT: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for End-to-End Acceleration of Real-Time Vision Transformer Inference on Versal ACAP Architecture." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 43, no. 11, 2024, pp. 3949-3960. |
| Li, Yuqi, Zhao, Kehao, Zhao, Jieru, Wang, Qirui, Zhong, Shuda, Lalam, Nageswara, Wright, Ruishu, Zhou, Peipei, Chen, Kevin P. "FiberFlex: Real-time FPGA-based Intelligent & Distributed Fiber Sensor System for Pedestrian Recognition." ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2024. |
| Yang, Zhuoping, Zhang, Wei, Ji, Shixin, Zhou, Peipei, Jones, Alex K. "Reducing Smart Phone Environmental Footprints with In-Memory Processing." 2024 International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2024, pp. 49-52. |
| Ji, Shixin, Yang, Zhuoping, Chen, Xingzhen, Cahoon, Stephen, Hu, Jingtong, Shi, Yiyu, Jones, Alex K., Zhou, Peipei. "SCARIF: Towards Carbon Modeling of Cloud Servers with Accelerators." 2024 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2024, pp. 496-501. |
| Zhuang, Jinming, Yang, Zhuoping, Ji, Shixin, Huang, Heng, Jones, Alex K., Hu, Jingtong, Shi, Yiyu, Zhou, Peipei. "SSR: Spatial Sequential Hybrid Architecture for Latency Throughput Tradeoff in Transformer Acceleration." Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2024. |
| Yang, Zhuoping, Zhuang, Jinming, Yin, Jiaqi, Yu, Cunxi, Jones, Alex K., Zhou, Peipei. "AIM: Accelerating Arbitrary-Precision Integer Multiplication on Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Computing Platform Versal ACAP." 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023. |
| Zhuang, Jinming, Lau, Jason, Ye, Hanchen, Yang, Zhuoping, Du, Yubo, Lo, Jack, Denolf, Kristof, Neuendorffer, Stephen, Jones, Alex, Hu, Jingtong, Chen, Deming, Cong, Jason, Zhou, Peipei. "CHARM: C omposing H eterogeneous A ccele R ators for M atrix Multiply on Versal ACAP Architecture." Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2023. |
| Wu, Yawen, Tang, Yue, Zeng, Dewen, Zhang, Xinyi, Zhou, Peipei, Shi, Yiyu, Hu, Jingtong. "Efficient Hardware and Software Design for On-device Learning." Embedded Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Edge Computing, 2023, pp. 371-404. |
| Zhuang, Jinming, Yang, Zhuoping, Zhou, Peipei. "High Performance, Low Power Matrix Multiply Design on ACAP: from Architecture, Design Challenges and DSE Perspectives." 2023 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023. |
| Zhou, Peipei, Zhuang, Jinming, Cahoon, Stephen, Tang, Yue, Yang, Zhuoping, Chen, Xingzhen, Shi, Yiyu, Hu, Jingtong, Jones, Alex K. "REFRESH FPGAs: Sustainable FPGA Chiplet Architectures." Proceedings of the 14th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2023. |
| Ollivier, Sebastien, Li, Sheng, Tang, Yue, Cahoon, Stephen, Caginalp, Ryan, Chaudhuri, Chayanika, Zhou, Peipei, Tang, Xulong, Hu, Jingtong, Jones, Alex K. "Sustainable AI Processing at the Edge." IEEE Micro, vol. 43, no. 1, 2023, pp. 19-28. |
| Tang, Yue, Zhang, Xinyi, Zhou, Peipei, Hu, Jingtong. "EF-Train: Enable Efficient On-device CNN Training on FPGA through Data Reshaping for Online Adaptation or Personalization." ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol. 27, no. 5, 2022, pp. 1-36. |
| Tang, Yue, Wu, Yawen, Zhou, Peipei, Hu, Jingtong. "Enabling Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization From On-Device Learning of the Video Stream." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 41, no. 11, 2022, pp. 3910-3921. |
| Zhang, Xinyi, Hao, Cong, Zhou, Peipei, Jones, Alex, Hu, Jingtong. "H2H." Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2022. |
| Zhang, Xinyi, Wu, Yawen, Zhou, Peipei, Tang, Xulong, Hu, Jingtong. "Algorithm-hardware Co-design of Attention Mechanism on FPGA Devices." ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 20, no. 5s, 2021, pp. 1-24. |
| Zhou, Peipei, Sheng, Jiayi, Yu, Cody Hao, Wei, Peng, Wang, Jie, Wu, Di, Cong, Jason. "MOCHA." The 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 2021. |
| Lo, Michael, Fang, Zhenman, Wang, Jie, Zhou, Peipei, Chang, Mau-Chung Frank, Cong, Jason. "Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for BQSR Acceleration in Genome Analysis ToolKit." 2020 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2020. |
| Zhang, Chen, Sun, Guangyu, Fang, Zhenman, Zhou, Peipei, Pan, Peichen, Cong, Jason. "Caffeine: Toward Uniformed Representation and Acceleration for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 38, no. 11, 2019, pp. 2072-2085. |
| Chi, Yuze, Zhou, Peipei, Cong, Jason. "An Optimal Microarchitecture for Stencil Computation with Data Reuse and Fine-Grained Parallelism." Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 2018. |
| Zhou, Peipei, Ruan, Zhenyuan, Fang, Zhenman, Shand, Megan, Roazen, David, Cong, Jason. "Doppio: I/O-Aware Performance Analysis, Modeling and Optimization for In-memory Computing Framework." 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2018. |
| Chi, Yuze, Cong, Jason, Wei, Peng, Zhou, Peipei. "SODA." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2018. |
| Ruan, Zhenyuan, He, Tong, Li, Bojie, Zhou, Peipei, Cong, Jason. "ST-Accel: A High-Level Programming Platform for Streaming Applications on FPGA." 2018 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2018. |
| Cong, Jason, Wei, Peng, Yu, Cody Hao, Zhou, Peipei. "Bandwidth Optimization Through On-Chip Memory Restructuring for HLS." Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017, 2017. |
| Chen, Yu-Ting, Cong, Jason, Fang, Zhenman, Zhou, Peipei. "ARAPrototyper." Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, 2016. |
| Zhang, Chen, Fang, Zhenman, Zhou, Peipei, Pan, Peichen, Cong, Jason. "Caffeine." Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2016. |
| Zhou, Peipei, Park, Hyunseok, Fang, Zhenman, Cong, Jason, DeHon, Andre. "Energy Efficiency of Full Pipelining: A Case Study for Matrix Multiplication." 2016 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2016. |
| Cong, Jason, Huang, Hui, Ma, Chiyuan, Xiao, Bingjun, Zhou, Peipei. "A Fully Pipelined and Dynamically Composable Architecture of CGRA." 2014 IEEE 22nd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2014. |
NSF CAREER: High-Level Synthesis for Verification-Driven Heterogeneous Dataflow System Integration with AI-Assisted Transformation
NSF MRI Consortium: Track 1: Development of SPECTRUM: An Evolutionary Rapid-Prototyping Testbed for Low Latency Multi-Domain Computing
NSF POSE: Phase I: Enabling Open-source Ecosystem for Rapid System-on-Chip Design and Programming
NSF Collaborative Research: DESC: Type II: REFRESH: Revisiting Expanding FPGA Real-estate for Environmentally Sustainability Heterogeneous-Systems
NSF Collaborative Research: FuSe: R3AP: Retunable, Reconfigurable, Racetrack-Memory Acceleration Platform
NSF Workshop on Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Medical Applications
NSF Collaborative Research: PPoSS: LARGE: Co-designing Hardware, Software, and Algorithms to Enable Extreme-Scale Machine Learning Systems
NSF Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: A Scalable Hardware and Software Environment Enabling Secure Multi-party Learning
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers (2023-Present)
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (2024-Present)
IEEE Senior Member| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | PhD | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 2014 | MS | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 2012 | BS | Southeast University (东南大学) |
2026 ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) Best Paer Award Paper
2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award
2025 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Best Paper Nominee
2024 IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) Best Paper Award (Viewpoint Paper Track)
2023 IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) Best Paper Finalist (Viewpoint Paper Track)
2019 IEEE Council on Electronic Design (CEDA) Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award
2019 Outstanding Recognition in Research from UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Best Paper Nominee
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) Best Paper Nominee
| ENGN 1600 - Design and Implementation of Digital Integrated Circuits |
| ENGN 2911X - Reconfigurable Computing |
