Christopher Torng Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Computer Science University of Southern California ctorng [at] usc [.] edu [ Google Scholar ]

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and in the Department of Computer Science by courtesy (CS) at USC, where I lead the Acorn Research Group. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University working with Mark Horowitz in the Stanford AHA Agile Hardware Project. During my PhD, I was advised by Christopher Batten at Cornell University.

My research interests are in the area of computer architecture with an emphasis on domain-specific hardware accelerators, software/hardware co-design, agile chip development methodologies, and rapid chip prototyping. You can look at the Acorn Research Group page to see what I am currently working on!

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 2023 - present
  Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2019 - 2022
  Postdoctoral Researcher in Electrical Engineering
  Advisor: Mark Horowitz

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2012 - 2019
  PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Christopher Batten
  Thesis: Software, Architecture, and VLSI Co-Design for Fine-Grain Voltage and Frequency Scaling
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2008 - 2012
  BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• USC EE 599: Special Topic on Complex Digital ASIC System Design Fall 2023
  Instructor
• USC EE 557: Computer Systems Architecture Spring 2023
  Instructor
• Stanford EE 272: Design Projects in VLSI Systems Winter 2020
  Co-Instructor
• Cornell ECE 2400 / ENGRD 2140 Computer Systems Programming Fall 2017
  Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Cornell ECE 4750 / CS 4420 Computer Architecture Fall 2014
  Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Cornell CURIE Academy Summer 2014
  Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Educational outreach program for high school girls focusing on exploring STEM fields and taking a deeper dive into computer engineering

• Cornell ENGRG 1060 Exploration in Engineering Seminar Summer 2013
  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Educational outreach targeted at introducing high school students to STEM fields through an Arduino-based robotics lab

• Cornell ECE 4750 / CS 4420 Computer Architecture Fall 2011
  Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

• Workshop on Democratizing Domain-Specific Accelerators
  Yufei Ding, Christopher Torng, Po-An Tsai, Hung-Wei Tseng
  56th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2023
• Workshop on Democratizing Domain-Specific Accelerators
  Yufei Ding, Christopher Torng, Po-An Tsai, Hung-Wei Tseng
  55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2022
• PyMTL: A Python-Based Framework for Hardware Generation, Simulation, and Verification
  Christopher Batten, Shunning Jiang, Christopher Torng, Yanghui Ou, Peitian Pan
  ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019

Program Committees

• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)2023 - 2024
• International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)2020 - 2023
• International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)2024
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)2022
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)2021
• IEEE MICRO2020
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS)2016

External Review Committees

• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)2022
• International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)2021

Organizing Committees

• Workshop on Democratizing Domain-Specific Accelerators (WDDSA)2023
  Co-Organizer, co-located at MICRO
• Workshop on Democratizing Domain-Specific Accelerators (WDDSA)2022
  Co-Organizer, co-located at MICRO