Zhenman Fang
Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenman Fang is an assistant professor and founder of the HiAccel lab at Simon Fraser University, specializing in customizable computing and hardware acceleration for domains like genomics, big data analytics, ML, and image/video processing. With ~10 years of experience spanning academia and industry—including staff software engineering at Xilinx and a postdoc at UCLA—he blends deep computer-architecture research with practical runtime and compiler work for accelerator-rich architectures. He has published 40+ papers, earned multiple best-paper awards and competitive grants, and built tools such as the cycle-accurate PARADE simulation platform that bridge gem5 with high-level synthesis. His work uniquely ties architectural simulation, compiler optimizations, and datacenter FPGA integration to deliver energy-efficient, heterogeneous systems designs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Fudan UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University College DublinUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesPostdoc, Computer Science, Postdoc, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
cycle9
simulation8
ranking8
science7
react7
computer-science6
accelerator5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SFU-HiAccel/rodinia-hls
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
zhenman/rodinia-fpga-hls
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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