Biography

My name is Ruiyang Qin (秦睿阳). I will join the ECE Department at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor in August 2025. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame in 2025 under the advice of Professor Yiyu Shi. I also work closely with Professor Sharon Hu and Professor Jinjun Xiong. I received DAC Young Fellow in 2023 and 2024, Edison Innovation Fellow in 2024, IAD Academic Fellowship in 2024, Best Paper Award nomination at ICCAD in 2024, and Spotlight at ICLR in 2025.

[Recruiting Ph.D. students and interns] I am actively seeking highly motivated students for PhD, MS, and Research Intern positions. If you are interested, please send me your CV, transcripts, and brief descriptions about why you want to work with me.

Email: rqin AT villanova.edu

Research Interests

• In-Memory Computing
• Emerging Semiconductor Devices for LLM/DL Acceleration
• On-Device AI
• Efficient Machine Learning
• AI for Healthcare

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

• B.S./M.S. in CS (Aug 2017 - May 2021)

University of Notre Dame

• Ph.D. in CSE (Aug 2022 - May 2025)
• Adviser: Professor Yiyu Shi
• Committee Member: Sharon Hu, Kai Ni, Siddharth Joshi, Jinjun Xiong

News

• 2025/06 One paper is accepted by ICCAD 2025 (acceptance rate: 24.7%).
• 2025/06 Delighted to give a talk at DAC: Emerging Technology Applications on Personalized Edge LLMs
• 2025/05 One paper is accepted by ACL 2025.
• 2025/05 One paper is accepted by TODAES.
• 2025/05 One paper is accepted by ICML 2025 (acceptance rate: 26.9%).
• 2025/03 Will join ECE at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor!
• 2025/03 Successfully passed my Ph.D. defense!
• 2025/01 One paper is accepted by ICLR 2025 as Spotlight (3.20%)!
• 2025/01 Delighted to give a talk at ECE@Villanova University
• 2025/01 Delighted to give a talk at ASP-DAC: Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models on Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Platforms
• 2024/11 Two papers are accepted by DATE 2025 (acceptance rate: 25%).
• 2024/11 Delighted to give a guest lecture at University of Notre Dame: LLM Distillation and Quantization
• 2024/10 Receiving best paper nomination from ICCAD 2024 (1.24%)!
• 2024/10 Receiving academic fellowship from Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (IAD) at University at Buffalo
• 2024/08 Visiting X-Lab at Buffalo, supervised by Professor Xiong
• 2024/08 Being selected as an Edison Innovation Fellow for the 2024/2025 academic year!
• 2024/07 Passed my oral candidacy. Now I am a PhD candidate. Many thanks to my committee members and my advisor!
• 2024/06 One paper is accepted by ICCAD 2024 (acceptance rate: 24%).
• 2024/06 One paper is accepted by TOIS.
• 2024/06 One paper is accepted by TMIS.
• 2024/03 Receive Gemma Academic Program GCP Credit Aware up to $15,000 from Google.
• 2024/02 One paper is accepted by DAC 2024 (acceptance rate: 21.8%).
• 2024/01 One paper is presented at ASP-DAC 2024.
• 2023/03 One paper is accepted by RO-MAN 2023.
• 2023/02 One paper is accepted by DAC 2023.
• 2022/09 Join Sustainable Computing Laboratory (SCL) at University of Notre Dame.

Review Services

• IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
• Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
• Nature Scientific Report
• Nautre Machine Intelligence
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
• International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

Awards

• William J. McCalla Best Paper Nomination at ICCAD (10 out of 802 submissions), 2024, USA
• IAD Academic Fellowship from University at Buffalo, 2024, USA
• Notre Dame Notebaert Professional Development Fund, 2024, USA
• Edison Innovation Fellow, 2024, USA
• DAC Young Fellow, 2024, USA
• DAC Young Fellow, 2023, USA

Teaching

• CSE 30151 Theory of Computing, Spring 2023 @ Notre Dame
• CSE 30246 Database Concepts, Fall 2022 @ Notre Dame
• CS 6476 Computer Vision, Spring 2021 @ Georgia Tech