Niansong Zhang
Research Scholar at SRC Research Scholars Program
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNiansong Zhang is a research-focused hardware engineer and ECE PhD student at Cornell with eight years of experience building compiler toolchains, domain-specific languages, and hardware accelerators. He currently contributes to the Evolvable Distributed Accelerators project via SRC and has interned in research roles at NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel Labs, blending academic rigor with industry-grade systems. His work spans intelligent memory/storage architectures, NAS and model compression, and FPGA placement for systolic arrays—resulting in publications and a production-ready RapidLayout placement framework. Comfortable moving between compilers and hardware, he has repeatedly delivered DSL and compiler support that bridges algorithmic ML advances with efficient hardware realization. Based in Ithaca, he brings a rare combination of hands-on intern experience at leading chip companies and deep research expertise in EDA and accelerator co-design.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MS/PhD, Computer Hardware Engineering, MS/PhD, Computer Hardware Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Telecommunications Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (46)
modular10
python10
dsl10
compiler-construction10
fpga10
heterogeneous10
llvm9
programming-language9
intermediate9
hardware9
machine-learning9
toolchain9
asic9
clang9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zzzDavid/heterocl
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
HeteroCL: A Multi-Paradigm Programming Infrastructure for Software-Defined Heterogeneous Computing
Contributions:106 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years
multi-paradigmheterogeneous-computingheterogeneousdefinedinfrastructure
watcag/RapidLayout
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:61 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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