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