Yiming Gan

My name is Yiming Gan (甘一鸣). I’m currently an assistant professor at Institute of Computing Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining ICT, CAS, I received my PhD degree from CS Department, University of Rochester in 2023. My PhD advisor is Professor Yuhao Zhu.

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. Research has more to offer.

I always have openings for students. If you love to do research in building better software and hardware for next generation robots, and know how to program, send me an email at: ganyiming@ict.ac.cn. Prospective Students has more to offer.

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Academic Background

• Sep 2012 - July 2016: Beijing Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering.
• Sep 2016 - May 2018: University of California, Santa Barbara, Master of Science.
• Sep 2018 - June 2023: University of Rochester, Doctor of Philosophy.

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Selected Publication

• 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’20) Best Paper Nomination
  
• 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)
  
• 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-27)
  
• 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-22)
  
• 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-29)
  
• BLITZCRANK: Factor Graph Accelerator for Motion Planning
  Yuhui Hao¹, Yiming Gan¹, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  60th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
  
• 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)
  

See Publication for full list.

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News

• October, 2023: I presented an invited talk Building Efficient and Reliable Hardware for Autonomous Machines at 1024 Coder Festival.
• July, 2023: I joined ICT, CAS as an assistant professor.
• July, 2023: I graduated from CS @ UofR.
• May, 2023: I organized Computing System Design for Humanoid Robots Forum at ICT, CAS.

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Academic Services

• Tutorial on SoC Modeling and Infrastructure at ASPLOS 2019, ISCA 2018 and IISWC 2018.
• Publicity Chair of FastPath2021 at ISPASS 2021.
• Web Chair of RSS2:Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0 at ASPLOS 2021, ASPLOS 2022.
• Reviewer of IEEE CAL, iScience, AAAI, ICCV, IISWC.