Welcome to TW’s Research Group
We are a research group supervised by Prof. Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Our group creates novel software systems to simplify the building of performance-critical applications, such as electronic design automation, quantum computing, and machine learning. Our software (e.g., Taskflow, OpenTimer) has been used by thousands of people in industry and academia.
Where Are We?
Our research group is situated at the beautiful Madison City - an Isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. Madison has been consistently placed top in the list of Best Places to Live in the US and Top College Towns in the US.
According to 2025 US News, the ECE Department of UW-Madison is ranked #9 among public universities and #15 among all universities.
Join us!
We are looking for highly self-motivated PhD, MS, and undergraduate students to join us, doing research on heterogeneous computing, computer-aided design, quantum computing, and machine learning systems. My students have been collaborating and working with many companies, such as Nvidia, Intel, Cadence, Synopsys, IBM, Google, Huawei, and so on.
Please email Prof. Huang your resume and research interest (see our Research and Why Join Our Team?).
Sponsors
We are grateful for funding from University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, National Science Foudation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NumFocus, Nvidia, and Intel.
News
22 May 2025Prof. Huang received 2025 College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring!
30 April 2025Two papers accepted by 2025 International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)!
30 April 2025Congratulations for students who will take summer internship positions at leading tech companies (Jie Tong at Nvidia, Chih-Chun Chang at Cadence, Aditya Das Sarma at Synopsys, and Wan-Luan Lee at Cadence)!
8 April 2025ECE graduate programs in both electrical engineering and computer engineering rank #9 among public institutions in the nation according to the newest 2025 US NEWS report!
2 March 2025Our team, TD-Badger
, won the Second Place (out of 46 registered teams) in 2025 PPoPP Fast Code Programming Challenge (FCPC)!
Wan-Luan's paper, iG-kway
, is accepted by the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)!
Shui Jiang's paper, BQSim
, is accepted by the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)!
Our Taskflow-based collaborative project (with Arizona State University and University of Arizona) is accepted by International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions (ExHET) at PPoPP!
21. Jan 2025Che (Randy) Chang's paper, PathGen
, is nominated for the Best Paper Candidate in 2025 IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)!
Aditya Das Sarma received the Honorable Mention (6th place out of 90 globally registered teams) in the highly competitive 2024 ICCAD CAD Contest!