August Ning
I am a postdoc at EPFL working with Prof. Babak Falsafi, PARSA, and EcoCloud.
I received my PhD from Princeton University where I was advised by Prof. David Wentzlaff in the Princeton Parallel Group. I was supported by Princeton’s Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. I spent summer 2023 interning at AMD Research working with Yasuko Eckert.
News
- Apr 2026 - Presenting at 2026 OCP EMEA Summit on
“Fan, PSU, and Idle Power in Air-Cooled/Liquid-Cooled Servers” - Mar 2026 - Co-PI on an Swiss AI Initiative small grant studying
“Model-System Insights for Hardware Efficient LLM Inference” - Mar 2026 - Serving on the MICRO 2026 PC
- Mar 2026 - I will give a talk/panel at CMU’s Critical Technology Initiative and attend ASPLOS 2026
- Feb 2026 - I will be teaching CS 728 Topics on Datacenter Design
- Nov 2025 - Serving on the ISCA 2026 PC
- Oct 2025 - New preprint: SPAD now on Arxiv
- Sep 2025 - Started at EPFL!
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).
Preprints
- SPAD: Specialized Prefill and Decode Hardware for Disaggregated LLM Inference
- Hengrui Zhang, Pratyush Patel, August Ning, and David Wentzlaff
- Oct 2025
- [arxiv] [pdf]
Publications
- Chip Architectures Under Advanced Computing Sanctions
- August Ning and David Wentzlaff
- The 52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2025)
- [ACM DL Open Access] [pdf]
- Computer Architecture Under Economic Constraints
- PhD Thesis, Princeton University; May 2025
- 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!
- [IEEE Xplore] [pdf] New! Nov 2024 [Stripes Open Source]
- 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]
I am passionate about building research and student communities. I serve on the Computer Architecture Student Association steering committee and I was the graduate liason for Princeton ACM. I was 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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