Open Positions!
We are looking for highly self-motivated PhD, MS, and undergraduate students joining us, doing research on heterogeneous computing, computer-aided design, quantum computing, and machine learning systems. Please email Prof Huang your resume and research interest (see our Research and Why Join Our Team?).
Faculty
Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang
Associate Professor, Department of ECE and CS (affiliate)
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, USA, 53706
Office: Engineering Hall (EH) 3423
BS/MS (NCKU-CS@Taiwan), PhD (UIUC-ECE@USA)
Bio Dr. Huang is an Associate Professor in ECE at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), with an affiliate appointment in CS. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison (2023–2025) and University of Utah (2019–2023). He earned his PhD in ECE from UIUC (2017) and BS/MS in CS from Taiwan’s NCKU (2011). His research focuses on building software systems for performance-critical applications, including CAD, machine learning, and quantum computing. His tools, such as Taskflow and OpenTimer, are widely used in industry and academia.
Dr. Huang has received several awards, including ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, NSF CAREER Award, Humboldt Research Fellowship, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, ICCAD 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award (OpenTimer), DAC Under-40 Innovator Award, and Vilas Early-career Investigator Award. He also won top 3 in multiple international programming contests, such as ACM SIGDA CADathlon, TAU Timing Contest, IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge, ICCAD CAD Contest, and ACM PPoPP FCPC. Dr. Huang has served on the TPC in DAC, ICCAD, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, SC, IPDPS, etc.
PhD Students
Che Chang (Randy)
Spring 2022–present
Research: Static timing analysis, GPU acceleration
Experience: Intel (summer’22), Google (summer’24), Cadence (summer’26)
Chih-Chun Chang
Spring 2023–present
Research: Statistical static timing analysis, GPU acceleration
Experience: Cadence (summer’24, summer’25, summer’26)
Boyang Zhang
Spring 2023–present
Research: Parallel and heterogeneous computing algorithms for EDA
Experience: Cadence (summer’24), KLA (summer’26)
Yi-Hua Chung
Fall 2023–present
Research: GPU-accelerated graph algorithms and compiler optimization
Experience: Synopsys (summer’24)
Aditya Das Sarma
Fall 2024–present
Research: Differential optimization
Experience: Synopsys (summer’25), Tenstorrent (fall’26)
Master Students
Ting-Kuo Chen
Spring 2024–present
Research: Quantum physics
Undergraduate Students
Snikitha Siddavatam
Spring 2026–present
Research: Verification of task-parallel programming systems
Saksham Dhuria
Spring 2024–present
Research: Task-parallel scheduler optimization
Alumni
PhD 🎉🎉🎉
Shui Jiang
CUHK ECE PhD 2026 (co-supervised with Prof. Ho at CUHK)
Research: Quantum computing
Dissertation: A System Stack for High-Performance Quantum Circuit Simulation
First appointment: Software Engineer at Tencent (since 2026)
Wan-Luan Lee
UW-Madison ECE PhD 2025
Research: Graph algorithms on GPU
Dissertation: GPU-accelerated Graph Partitioning Algorithms for VLSI Design
First appointment: Software Engineer at Cadence (since 2026)
Jie Tong
UW-Madison ECE PhD 2025
Research: Compiler-guided GPU-accelerated RTL simulation
Dissertation: Towards Scalable and Efficient Parallel RTL and Network Simulation Systems
First appointment: Software Engineer at Nvidia (since 2025)
Cheng-Hsiang Chiu
UW-Madison ECE PhD 2025
Research: Task-parallel programming system design
Dissertation: Asynchronous Many-task System with Intelligent Scheduling
First appointment: TBD
Dian-Lun Lin (Aaron)
UW-Madison ECE PhD 2024
Research: GPU-accelerated logic simulation and machine learning
Dissertation: Task-Parallel Heterogeneous Programming System for Logic Simulation
First appointment: Research Scientist at Intel Labs (since 2024)
Guannan Guo
UIUC ECE PhD 2023 (co-supervised with Prof Martin Wong at UIUC)
Research: static timing analysis, heterogeneous computing
Dissertation: Parallel and heterogeneous computing for static timing analysis
First appointment: Software Engineer at Huawei (since 2023)
MS 🎉🎉
Aswin Kumar
UW-Madison ECE Master 2026
Research: LLM-assisted scheduling optimization
First appointment: Software Engineer (Serve Robotics)
Manu Maheshwari
UW-Madison ECE Master 2025
Research: GPU task graph optimization
First appointment: Senior Deep Learning Performance Architect at NVIDIA (since 2025)
McKay Mauer
UofU ECE Master 2023
Research: Graph neural network, performance modeling
First appointment: Software Engineer at Trident Sensing (since 2023)
Luke Majors
UofU ECE Master 2023
Research: Graph algorithms
First appointment: Software Engineer at Trident Sensing (since 2023)
Yasin Zamani
UofU ECE Master 2021
Research: GPU programming, static timing analysis
First appointment: Data Scientist at Variant (since 2022)
BS 🎉
Shawn Zhu
UW-Madison ECE Bachelor 2024
Research: GPU computing and algorithms
First appointment: Software Engineer at Epic (since 2025)
Elmir Dzaka
UofU ECE Bachelor 2024
Research: Parallel logic simulation algorithms
First appointment: PhD student at the University of Utah (since 2024)
Why Join Our Team?
The code of conduct in our group is to respect and support each other. Hierarchy does exist but only for project management. We solve real-world problems that matter to the society. You will find plenty of research opportunities for a BS/MS/PhD thesis. Specifically, in our group you will learn to:
- Apply ECE/CS knowledge to solve scientific computing problems
- Create impactful research projects and software systems
- Become a good programmer and an independent researcher
We collaborate with many people from industry, academia, and government agencies. You can work with people around the world to explore different research ideas. After you leave our group, you will be ready for many job opportunities in both software and hardware companies. For instance, my students have been working in Nvidia, Intel, Cadence, Synopsys, IBM, Google, Huawei, etc.
According to 2025 US News, the ECE Department of UW-Madison is ranked #9 among public universities and #15 among all universities. You will find plenty of resources to help you grow and advance your research career in our department and UW-Madison!
