August Ning

CV

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In Fall 2025 I will start as a postdoc at EPFL! 🇨🇭

I received my PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Princeton University. I was advised by Prof. David Wentzlaff in the Princeton Parallel Group.

I did my undergrad at Duke in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I was advised by Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty and his graduate students and conducted research on VLSI testing.

I spent summer 2023 interning at AMD Research, mentored by Yasuko Eckert.

I was supported by Princeton’s Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

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News

• May 2025 - Defended my thesis! Thank you Dave for being an incredible advisor and Sharad, Margaret, and Ben for being an awesome committee!

• Mar 2025 - “Chip Architectures under Advanced Computing Sanctions” accepted at ISCA 2025!
• Feb 2025 - Talk at University of Central Florida
• Jan 2025 - Talk at EPFL

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Research Interests

My research focuses on computer architecture and systems under (very broadly defined) economics constraints. I am interested in how factors such as semiconductor manufacturing, economic trends, and policies/regulations ultimately affect chip and system designs.

Closer to traditional computer architecture, I am interested in energy and cost efficiency, chiplet architectures, software-hardware co-design (DECADES Project) and sys for ML (SAIL@Princeton).

Additionally, I am passionate about building research and student communities. I serve on the Computer Architecture Student Association steering committee and I am the graduate liason for Princeton ACM. I am also a resident graduate student at Whitman College. If you’re ever in the area or meet me at a conference, please reach out and say hello!

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Publications

• Chip Architectures Under Advanced Computing Sanctions
• August Ning and David Wentzlaff
• The 52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2025) (to appear)

• Computer Architecture Under Economic Constraints
• August Ning
• PhD Thesis, Princeton University

• Revisiting Computation for Research: Practices and Trends
• Jeremiah Giordani*, Ziyang Xu*, Et al.
• 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC24)
• [ACM DL] [pdf]

• LLMCompass: Enabling Efficient Hardware Design for Large Language Model Inference
• Hengrui Zhang, August Ning, Rohan Prabhakar, and David Wentzlaff
• The 51th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2024)
• [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] [Github repo] [Lightning talk]

• CIFER: A Cache-Coherent 12nm 16mm² SoC With Four 64-Bit RISC-V Application Cores, 18 32-Bit RISC-V Compute Cores, and a 1541 LUT6/mm² Synthesizable eFPGA
• Ang Li, Et al.
• IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Aug 2023
• [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]

• Supply Chain Aware Computer Architecture
• August Ning, Georgios Tziantzioulis, and David Wentzlaff
• The 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2023)
• [ACM DL Open Access] [pdf] [Github repo]

• CIFER: A 12nm, 16mm², 22-Core SoC with a 1541 LUT6/mm², 1.92 MOPS/LUT, Fully Synthesizable, Cache-Coherent, Embedded FPGA
• Ting-Jung Chang*, Ang Li*, Et al.
• 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2023)
• [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]

• DECADES: A 67mm², 1.46TOPS, 55 Giga Cache-Coherent 64-bit RISC-V Instructions per second, Heterogeneous Manycore SoC with 109 Tiles including Accelerators, Intelligent Storage, and eFPGA in 12nm FinFET
• Fei Gao, Et al.
• 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2023)
• Best Student Paper Award Nominee!
• New! Nov 2024 [Stripes Open Source] [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]

• Duet: Creating Harmony between Processors and Embedded FPGAs
• Ang Li, August Ning, and David Wentzlaff
• 2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2023)
• [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] [Github repo]

• Variation-Aware Delay Fault Testing for Carbon-Nanotube FET Circuits
• Sanmitra Banerjee, Arjun Chaudhuri, August Ning and Krishnendu Chakrabarty
• IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Feb 2021
• [IEEE Xplore] [pdf]

Workshops/Presentations

• Computer Architectures for Chip Surplus
• August Ning and David Wentzlaff
• ACM Student Research Competition at MICRO 2022, Oct 2022
• [poster]

• Supply Chain Aware Chip Architecture
• August Ning, Georgios Tziantzioulis, and David Wentzlaff
• The Fourth Young Architect Workshop at ASPLOS 2022, Mar 2022
• [poster]

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