Short Biography
Dr. Lizhong Chen is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University and a core AI faculty member in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute. His research interests broadly span computer systems and AI, with a focus on efficient AI systems and natural language processing. Recent directions include AI accelerators and GPU architectures, efficient AI computing across edge, cloud, and HPC environments, LLM optimization and applications, emerging AI models and systems, and AI for science. Dr. Chen is a recipient of National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2018), Best Paper Nomination at IEEE NAS (2018), Best Paper Runner-up Award at HPCA (2020), and Chu Kochen Award (the highest honor from Zhejiang University, China). He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, program committee members in top computer system and machine learning conferences, reviewers for a number of highly ranked journals, and panelists of multiple NSF panels related to computer systems. He is the founder and organizer of the Annual International Workshop on AIDArc (AI-assisted Design for Architecture). Dr. Chen is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, and was an inductee into the IEEE HPCA Hall of Fame (2020).
Prior to joining Oregon State University in 2014, Dr. Chen was a postdoc at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2014 and 2011, respectively, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Honors College) from Zhejiang University in 2009.
Acknowledgment
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Recent Highlights
- Research positions are available (GPA >= 3.90; exceptions possible but rare).
- Thrilled to be part of FAST (an NSF-supported $160 million effort over the next 10 years to strengthen Oregon’s semiconductor ecosystem) and contribute through our work to accelerate AI chip design!
- We received funding for a 5-year collaborative project from Department of Energy.
- Dr. Lizhong Chen has been promoted to Full Professor!
- We are organizing the shared task (competition) on simultaneous translation at IWSLT 2025, with a focus on using LLMs. Please consider join (details)!
- We released Simul-LLM, the first open-source fine-tuning and evaluation framework for applying large language model to simultaneous machine translation. Please check the Github repo and the paper.
- We received funding from the National Science Foundation PPoSS program.
- We are part of the Northwest-AI-Hub supported by the CHIPS and Science Act.
- Please check out our book on "AI for Computer Architecture: Principles, Practice, and Prospects" in the Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture (you might want to click "Access via your institution" to see if you already have free access).
- We received funding for a 5-year collaborative project from National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- We received funding for a 5-year collaborative project from Department of Energy.
- We received funding from the National Science Foundation MLWiNS program.