2012 - 2016, Beijing Institute of Technology, Bachlor Degree

2016 - 2018, University of California, Santa Barbara, Master Degree

2018 - 2023, University of Rochester, Ph.D Degree

• Corki: Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Embodied AI-powered Robotic Manipulation
  Yiyang Huang1, Yuhui Hao1, Bo Yu, Feng Yan, Yuxin Yang, Feng Min, Yinhe Han, Lin Ma, Shaoshan Liu, Qiang Liu, Yiming Gan.
  52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’2025)
  

• HEX-SIM: Evaluating Multi-modal Large Language Models on Multi-chiplet NPUs
  Xinquan Lin, Haobo Xu, Yinhe Han, and Yiming Gan(通讯).
  2024 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC’2024)
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• ORIANNA: An Accelerator Generation Framework for Optimization-based Robotic Applications
  Yuhui Hao1, Yiming Gan1, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Yinhe Han, Zishen Wan, Shaoshan Liu.
  29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’2024)

• BLITZCRANK: Factor Graph Accelerator for Motion Planning
  Yuhui Hao1, Yiming Gan1, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  60th Design Automation Conference (DAC’2023)
  

• An Energy Efficient and Runtime Reconfigurable Accelerator for Robotic Localization
  Qiang liu, Yuhui Hao, Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Jie Tang, Shao-Shan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  IEEE Transcations on Computers (IEEE TC)
  

• Crescent: Taming Memory Irregularities for Accelerating Deep Point Cloud Analytics
  Yu Feng, Gunnar Hammonds, Yiming Gan, Yuhao Zhu.
  49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’2022)
  

• Archytas: A Framework for Synthesizing and Dynamically Optimizing Accelerators for Robotic Navigation
  Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Qiang Liu, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’2021)
  

• Eudoxus: Characterizing and Accelerating Localization in Autonomous Machines
  Yiming Gan , Bo Yu, Boyuan Tian, Leimeng Xu, Wei Hu, Shaoshan Liu, Qiang Liu, Yanjun Zhang, Jie Tang and Yuhao Zhu.
  27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’2021)
  

  
  

• KINDRED: Heterogeneous Split-Lock Architecture for Safe Autonomous Machines
  Yiming Gan, Jingwen Leng, Yu Bo, Yuhao Zhu.
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (ACM TACO)
  

• The Vulnerability-Adaptive Protection Paradigm Toward Reliable Autonomous Machines
  Zishen Wan1, Yiming Gan1, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yuhao Zhu
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2024
  

• VPP: The Vulnerability-Proportional Protection Paradigm Towards Reliable Autonomous Machines
  Zishen Wan1, Yiming Gan1, Bo Yu, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yuhao Zhu
  ISCA 2023 workshop, 5th Domain Specific System Architecture (DOSSA-5)
  

• Thales: Formulating and Estimating Architectural Vulnerability Factor for DNN Accelerators
  Abhishek Tyagi, Yiming Gan, Shaoshan Liu, Bo Yu, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu.
  29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’2023)
  

• BRAUM: Analyzing and Protecting Autonomous Machine Software Stack
  Yiming Gan, Paul Whatmough, Jingwen Leng, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE’2022)
  

• Ptolemy: Architecture Support for Robust Deep Learning
  Yiming Gan1 , Yuxian Qiu1, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, and Yuhao Zhu.
  53rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’2020)

• KARMA: Augmenting Embodied AI Agents with Long-and-short Term Memory Systems
  Zixuan Wang, Bo Yu, Junzhe Zhao, Wenhao Sun, Sai Hou, Shuai Liang, Xing Hu, Yinhe Han, Yiming Gan(通讯).
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2025)
  

• Benchmarking and Optimizing Federated Learning with Hardware-related Metrics
  Kai Pan, Yapeng Tian, Yinhe Han, and Yiming Gan(通讯).
  The Thirty Fifth British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC’2024)
  

• Low-Latency Proactive Continuous Vision
  Yiming Gan, Yuxian Qiu, Lele Chen, Jingwen Leng, and Yuhao Zhu.
  29th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT’2020) Best Paper Nomination
  

• TinyLSTMs: Efficient Neural Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids
  Igor Fedorov, Marko Stamenovic, Carl Jensen, Li-Chia Yang, Ari Mandell, Yiming Gan , Matthew Mattina, Paul N. Whatmough.
  INTERSPEECH 2020

• SVSoC:Speculative Vision Systems-on-a-Chip
  Yiming Gan , Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, and Yuhao Zhu.
  In Computer Architecture Letters (CAL),2019

I do research in computer architecture, with emphasis on autonomous machines, including robots, autonomous vehicles and drones. I believe this is an exciting domain which may fundamentally change people’s life. Please check yiminggan.com for detailed projects and information.

I'm now mentoring 2 PhD students and 5 Master students. The detailed student list and can be found at: https://yiminggan.com/group/