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Rui (Rick) Xie

Rick @ RPI

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Welcome to my page! I am a PhD student in the ECSE Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Tong Zhang. I previously completed a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors in Southern University of Science and Technology, where I worked with Prof. Quan Chen.

My research focuses on optimizing memory architectures, primarily DRAM and SSDs, to enhance hardware performance and software efficiency. I explore solutions in data processing and AI, aiming to contribute to more efficient and sustainable computing systems.

Welcome to talk to me! Email: xier2 [at] rpi (dot) edu

🏫Educations

  • 08/2022 - Present PhD student in Computer Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 08/2018 - 06/2022 BEng in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

💼Experience

  • 12/2021 - 06/2022 EDA engineer intern, BTD Technology
    • Optimized parsers for faster interpretation and reduced memory usage
    • Developed interface for EDA tools
  • 06/2020 - 08/2020 Remote research intern, University of Hong Kong
  • 06/2019 - 08/2019 Visiting student, University of Oxford

📕Publications

  • Rui Xie, Linsen Ma, Alex Zhong, Feng Chen, Tong Zhang, “ZipCache: A Hybrid-DRAM/SSD Cache with Built-in Transparent Compression”, 10th International Symposium on Memory Systems (paper) (slides)
  • Rui Xie, Asad Ul Haq, Linsen Ma, Krystal Sun, Sanchari Sen, Swagath Venkataramani, Liu Liu, Tong Zhang, “SmartQuant: CXL-based AI Model Store in Support of Runtime Configurable Weight Quantization”, arXiv preprint (paper)
  • Linsen Ma, Rui Xie, Tong Zhang, “ZipKV: In-Memory Key-Value Store with Built-In Data Compression”, 2023 International Symposium on Memory Management (paper)
  • Ziyi Guan, Wenyong Zhou, Yuan Ren, Rui Xie, Hao Yu, Ngai Wong, “A Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search Pareto Front Exploration for In-Memory Computing”, in Proc. 2022 IEEE 16th Int. Conf. Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Oct 2022 (paper)
  • Yuan Ren, Wenyong Zhou, Ziyi Guan, Rui Xie, Quan Chen, Hao Yu, Ngai Wong, “XMAS: An Efficient Customizable Flow for Crossbarred-Memristor Architecture Search”, 59th Design Automation Conference Engineering Track (poster)
  • Rui Xie, Mingyang Song, Junzhuo Zhou, Jie Mei, Quan Chen, “A Fast Method for Steady-State Memristor Crossbar Array Circuit Simulation”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits Technologies and Applications (paper)
  • Quan Chen, Dayi Fan, Rui Xie, Mingyang Song, “Construction and optimization of neural networks for memristor arrays based on circuit simulation”. CN 202110673101.5 (patent)
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🏆Honors and Awards

  • 2022 Excellent Graduate Award, Southern University of Science and Technology
  • 2021 First Class Student Scholarship (Top 5%), Southern University of Science and Technology