Wujie Wen 
About me
Wujie Wen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Yiran Chen (Now in Duke Univerity). Before joining NC State, he was an Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University, and an Assistant Professor at Florida International University. Prior to joining academia, he worked at AMD and Broadcom. His research focuses on application- and workload-aware AI computing through system–hardware co-design and design automation, with an emphasis on efficient, secure, reliable, and privacy-preserving computing systems. His work spans AI/ML systems and hardware, private and trustworthy AI, embedded and cyber-physical systems, and emerging computing technologies. His research has been published in leading venues (mostly CSRankings conference) across design automation, computer architecture, systems, security, and AI/ML, including DAC, ICCAD, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ICS, MLSys, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and AAAI. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and other sponsors. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the 2023 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award (one of the top two papers among 750 submissions), and the DAC A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship, the most prestigious Ph.D. scholarship awarded annually by the EDA community. He has also received multiple best paper nominations at all major EDA conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, DATE, and ASP-DAC, and has served in various conference leadership, editorial, and program committee roles.
Research Interests
- Application- and workload-aware AI computing
- System–hardware co-design and design automation
- Efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving AI systems
Recent News:
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| Sep 2026: | Congrats to Ran! He will be joining Visa Research as a Research Scientist! |
| Aug 2026: | Our collaborative paper is accepted by ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2026! |
| July 2026: | Congrats to Gavin! Our paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2026! |
| May. 2026: | Congrats to Gavin! He will be joining DiDi Research America for his summer internship! |
| May. 2026: | Congrats to Ran Ran! Our paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2026! |
| Mar. 2026: | Congrats to Zhaoting (Gavin)! Our paper is accepted by ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) 2026! |
| Feb. 2026: | Congrats to Ran Ran! Our paper is accepted by MLSys 2026! |
| Feb. 2026: | Congrats to Ran Ran! One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026! |
| July 2025: | Our special session "Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in the LLM Era: Algorithm, Protocol, and Hardware" was accepted by ICCAD 2025! We will present our recent advances on "Pushing SIMD Efficiency in Homomorphic Encryption for Machine Learning via Pattern-Aware Ciphertext Encoding". |
| July 2025: | One paper is accepted by IEEE TCAD! |
| Jan. 2025: | One paper is accepted by ACM TACO! |
| Dec. 2024: | Anlan defended her Ph.D and joined Google Youtube! Congrats to Dr. Yu! |
| Dec. 2024: | Nuo defended his Ph.D. and joined University of Minnesota as a Postdoc Fellow! Congrats to Dr. Xu！ |
| Sep. 2024: | Congrats to Anlan! our paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2024! |
| June. 2024: | Two papers were accepted by ICCAD 2024! |
| Apr. 2024: | Ran will start his internship at VISA Research this summer! |
| Apr. 2024: | Nuo will start his research intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) this summer! |
| Nov. 2023: | Honored to receive the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award at the 2023 42nd ACM/IEEE Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) together with my colloborators at University of Notre Dame! |
| Sep 2023: | Congratulations to Ran Ran! Two papers on the privacy-preserving machine learning acceleration have been accepted by NeurIPs 2023! |
| Aug 2023: | Join the CS department of NC State University as an Associate Professor! |
| July 2023: | One paper is accepted by MICRO 2023! |
| July. 2023: | One paper is accepted by ICCV 2023! |
| July 2023: | Awarded NSF Career ! Thanks for NSF's support! |
| June 2023: | Awarded an NSF Medium Project ($1.2M/4 Years) as a lead PI for "Accelerating Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service: From Algorithm to Hardware" ! Thanks for NSF's support! |
| May. 19th 2023: | Promoted as Associated Professor with Tenure at Lehigh! Many thanks to all my students and everyone who worked and helped me! |
| May. 2023: | Congratulations to Anlan and Ran! Our two papers are accepted by ICML'23 ! |
| Apr. 2023: | Congratulations to Anlan for accepting an internship offer from Google! |
| Apr. 2023: | Congratulations to Nuo and our great collobrators (Ce and Parv)! Our work--``Spectral DP" will appear in 2023 the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P, Oakland) 2023! |
| Feb. 2023: | Two papers are accepted by 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023! |
| Oct. 2022: | Congratulations! Nuo Xu's work on privacy-preseving machine learning-"NeuGuard" is accepted by 38th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (ACSAC) 2022! |
| Sep. 2022: | Congratulations! Qi Liu's work on fault injection attack is accepted by USENIX Security'23! |
| Sep. 2022: | Congratulations! Ran Ran's first work on privacy-preserving graph convolutional neural network--"CryptoGCN" is accepted by NeurIPS (NIPS) 2022! |
| July 2022: | One paper is accepted by ICCAD2022! Congratulations to our collobrators and Ran Ran! |
| June 2022: | Welcome Mr Xinwei Luo to join the team! |
| June 2022: | Dr. Qi Liu will start the Applied Research Scientist Position at Amazon! |
| Apr. 2022: | Congratulations to Mr. Qi Liu for successfully defending his PhD at Lehigh! The 3rd PhD Alumni from the group! |
| Feb. 2022: | One paper is accepted by 2022 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), selected as publicity paper! |
| Dec. 2021: | Dr. Wen is invited to give a seminar talk ``Hidden Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities in Accelerated Machine Learning Services" at ECE Department, University of Miami, Miami, FL! |
| Sep. 2021: | One paper is accepted by ASP-DAC2022, Congratulations to Anlan! |
| Aug. 2021: | Welcome Ran Ran to join the team! |
| July 2021: | One collaborative paper is accepted by 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)! Congratulations to Qi and our collaborators! |
| June 2021: | One paper is accepted by 2021 ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT)! |
| May 2021: | Qi's paper is accepted by TNNLS! |
| Feb. 2021: | Two papers are accepted by 2021 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)! |
| Aug. 2020: | Congratulations! Tao Liu's work--``StegoNet: Turn Deep Neural Network into a Stegomalware" is accepted by 36th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (ACSAC) 2020! |
| July 2020: | Two papers are accepted by ICCAD2020, Congratulations to Qi Liu for his new work on fault injection attack! |
| June 2020: | Congratulations! Tao Liu received a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Lawrence Technological University! |
| June 2020: | Congratulations to both Qi Liu an Nuo Xu for receiving DAC2020 Young Student Fellow Awards! |
| May 2020: | Our two papers are early accepted by MICCAI 2020--the top conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions! Congratulations to Qi and Zihao! |
| Apr. 2020: | Congratulations to Zihao Liu for his research intern position in the Alibaba Damo Academy in Silicon Valley! |
| Apr. 2020: | Congratulations to Mr. Zihao Liu and Mr. Tao Liu for successfully defending their PhDs! |
| Feb. 2020: | Cong! Mr. Qi Liu's work titled "Monitoring the Health of Emerging Neural Network Accelerators with Cost-effective Concurrent Test" is accepted by 2020 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'20)! |
| Feb. 2020: | Cong! Mr. Nuo Xu's work about privacy issue on hardware-oriented neural network is accepted by 2020 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'20)! |
| Aug. 2019: | Dr. Wen, as the lead PI, received one NSF SPX grant (~$700K/4 year, together with University of Notre Dame)! Thanks for NSF's support! |
| Aug. 2019: | Dr. Wen joined the ECE department at Lehigh University! |
| Aug. 2019: | Dr. Wen received one NSF grant (together with University of Delware) from NSF to study the testing and diagnosis problem in emerging neural network accelerators! Thanks for NSF's support! |
| Apr. 2019: | Dr. Wen is one of the general chairs of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI2019), Miami, Florida, U.S.A., July 15-17, 2019! Please join us for this exciting event in Miami this July! |
| Feb. 2019: | Cong! Two papers about deep learning security/machine vision guided compression for medical imaging (both first authored by my PhD student Zihao) are accepted by 2019 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'19)! |
| Feb. 2019: | Cong! Tao's work about ``Fault-tolerant Neural Network Architecture" is accepted by 2019 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)! |
| Nov. 2018: | One paper is accepted by the 25th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2019! |
| Nov. 2018: | One paper is accepted by the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019! |
| Sep. 2018: | Dr. Wen will serve on the technical committee member of Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2019! |
| July 2018: | We receive one NSF grant to investigate the emerging Neural Network Security! Thanks for NSF's support! |
| July 2018: | Cong! One paper is accepted by 2018 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018)! |
| June. 2018: | Cong! Two papers are accepted by 2018 ACM/IEEE International Confernece on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)! |
| Feb. 2018: | Cong! Zihao's work is accepted by 2018 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)! |
| Feb. 2018: | One paper about edge computing is accepted by 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). |
| Jan. 2018: | Cong! Tao's work about “Neural Network Trojan Attack" is accepted by 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)! |
| Nov. 2017: | One TCAD paper and JETC paper are accepted! |
| Sep. 2017: | Cong! The first year Ph.D. student--Mr. Qi Liu's work about "Security analysis and enhancement of deep compressed neural network under adversarial attacks" is nominated as the best paper candidate in ASP-DAC 2018! |
| Sep. 2017: | Cong! The first year Ph.D. student--Mr. Qi Liu's work about “Security analysis and enhancement of deep compressed neural network under adversarial attacks" is accepted by ASP-DAC 2018. |
| Sep. 2017: | Cong! Mr. Tao Liu's work about "Spiking Neuromorphic Architecture" is accepted by ASP-DAC2018. |
| June. 2017: | Congratulations to the first-year Ph.D. student--Mr. Tao Liu for his work about spiking neuromorphic system accepted by ICCAD 2017. |
| June. 2017: | Dr. Wen received 2017 Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship of Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate for this summer. |
| May. 2017: | Our work (collaborative with Indiana University Bloomington) "Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Deep Neural Network" is accepted by ISLPED 2017. |
| May. 2017: | Congratulations to the first-year Ph.D. student--Mr. Tao Liu for his DAC A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Program (YSSP) Award. |
| Apr. 2017: | Congratulations to the first-year Ph.D. student--Mr. Tao Liu for receiving the travel grant from HOST 2017. |
| Apr. 2017: | Dr. Wen will serve as the Poster Session Chair (Organizing Committee) for IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2017), Mclean, VA USA. |
| Mar. 2017: | Our Collaborative Seed Program "Helmet: Deep Neural Network Protection Against Adversarial Attacks" was awarded by Florida Center for Cybersecurity. |
| Mar. 2017: | Dr. Wen will attend ISQED 2017 for an invited talk about “Spiking Neuromorphic Architecture Targeting Ultra-Low Power Embedded Applications". |
| Feb. 2017: | Two papers are accepted in GLSVLSI 2017. |
| Jan. 2017: | Two papers are accepted in ISQED 2017. Congratulations to Mr Tao Liu's first paper in ISQED! |
| Oct. 2016: | One TC and one TCAD paper are accepted. |
| Aug. 2016: | DThree papers are accepted by ASP-DAC 2016. Congratulations to the first year Ph.D. Zihao Liu's first paper! |
| May. 2016: | Dr. Wen was invited to chair the session "Attacks and Forensics" in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2016), Mclean, VA USA. |
| Apr. 2016: | Our paper "Efficient Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Code Decoding for Combating Asymmetric Errors in STT-RAM" was accepted by IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI2016), Pittsburgh, PA. |
| Mar. 2016: | Our paper "A Holistic Tri-region MLC STT-RAM Design with Combined Performance, Energy, and Reliability Optimizations" got Best Paper Nomination from DATE2016 (top 1.5%, 13 out of 829). |
| Feb. 2016: | Congratulations! Ph.D. student Zihao Liu got Travel Grant ($450) from Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW2016), San Diego, March 6-8th, 2016. |
| Jan. 2016: | Our collaborative work with UCF "A Selective Overwrite Scheme to Mitigate Write Disturbance for Energy Efficient MLC STT-RAM" is accepted for Oral Presentations in Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW2016). |
| Jan. 2016: | Our work "Tri-zone MLC STT-RAM Cache Design for Reliability, Performance and Energy Enhancement" are accepted for Poster Presentations in Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW2016). |
| Nov. 2015: | Our paper "A Holistic Tri-region MLC STT-RAM Design with Combined Performance, Energy, and Reliability Optimizations" is accepted by DATE 2016 (Regular session long presentation, acceptance rate: 199/824=24%). |
| Nov. 2015: | Paper "Sliding Basket: An Adaptive ECC Scheme for Runtime Write Failure Suppression of STT-RAM Cache" is accepted by DATE 2016 (Regular session long presentation, acceptance rate: 199/824=24%). |
| Sep. 2015: | Our paper "Improving Read Performance of STT-MRAM based Main Memories through Smash Read and Flexible Read" is accepted by ASP-DAC 2016. |
| Sep. 2015: | Our paper "A Novel PUF based on Cell Error Rate Distribution of STT-RAM" is accepted by ASP-DAC 2016. |
| Aug. 2015: | Dr. Wen begins the new career in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University. |