Special Topics in Electronic Engineering

Machine learning and artificial intelligence technology revolutionize how computers run cognitive tasks based on a massive volume of observed data. As more industries are adopting the technology, we are facing fast-growing demands for new types of hardware that enable faster and more energy efficient processing in relevant workloads. In this class, I will overview recent advances in machine learning models, especially on deep neural networks (DNNs), and discuss various hardware acceleration platforms and architectures from both academia and industry, where their application domain ranges from energy efficient mobile/edge to hyper-scale cloud infrastructure.