Contact
Associate Professor
William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1208 Benedum Hall,
3700 O'Hara St,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15261
Phone: (412) 383-4424
Email: jthu [AT] pitt [DOT] edu
Jingtong Hu 
Research Interests
Hardware/Software Co-design, Embedded Systems, On-Device AI, Digital Health
News
- 01/2024 Our paper won the Best Paper Award in The 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference ASP-DAC 2024 (ASP-DAC 2024).
- 10/2023 Our paper won the Best Paper Runner Up in The 14th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2023).
- 09/2023 Our team won the second place in Fair and Intelligent Embedded System Challenge at ESWEEK 2023.
- 09/2023 Proposal on Racetrack-Memory Acceleration Platform is funded by NSF Fuse.
- 09/2023 Proposal on FPGA-based Environmentally Sustainability Heterogeneous-Systems is funded by NSF DESC.
- 09/2023 Proposal on Future-proof Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems is funded by NSF DESC.
- 07/2023 Student Yue's work on DNN Training on FPGA Devices won ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) Award.
- 08/2022 Proposal on Achieve Fairness in AI-Assisted Mobile Healthcare Apps is funded by NIH NIBIB R01.
- 01/2022 Student Xinyi's work on Algorithm-Hardware Co-design of Transformer on FPGA Devices won Best Poster Award in the Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC 2022
- 12/2021 Our work on Hardware/Software Co-Design Frameworks for Deep Learning Accelerators has won the First Place in the 31st ACM SIGDA University Demonstration at DAC 2021
- 11/2021 Appointed as William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow effective September 1, 2021.
- 10/2021 Our work on Hardware and Software Co-Design for Neural Networks has received Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Circuits and Systems.
- 09/2021 Serving as TPC for ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation as part of CPS-IoT Week
- 09/2021 Serving as Associate Editor for The Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design (JSA)
- 07/2021 Proposal on On-device Learning is funded by NSF CNS.
- 07/2021 Proposal on PIM-Enabled DWM is funded by NSF CNS.
- 07/2021 Serve as ACM SIGDA Executive Committee member
- 03/2021 Guest Editing Special Issue "Intelligent IoT Circuits and Systems" for Sensors
- 03/2021 Student Weiwen Jiang will join Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor
- 08/2020 Guest Editing Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-Physical Systems for ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
- 08/2020 Serving as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
- 06/2020 Proposal on Energy Harvesting Powered Machine Learning is funded by NSF CNS. Media Coverage: Pittsburgh Earth Day, NetworkWorld, iHLS
- 06/2020 Proposal on FPGA-based COVID-19 Screening is funded by NSF IIS. Media Coverage: EurekAlert
- 04/2020 Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, Effective 9/1/2020
- 02/2020 Received Pitt Seed Grant from Office of the Chancellor to support our work on FPGA acceleration
- 01/2020 Received Grant from Army Research Lab
- 01/2020 Serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
- 06/2019 Received Meritorious Service Award from ACM SIGDA
- 06/2019 Congratulations to Yawen Wu and Zhepeng Wang for receiving the Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award
- 05/2019 Received Employer Diversity Recognition Award from Pitt Career Center
- 05/2019 Student Mimi Xie will join Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at San Antonio as a tenure-track Assistant Professor
- 04/2019 Received Hewlett International Grant from University Center for International Studies
- 01/2019 Received Grant from Army Research Lab
- 07/2018 Received IRES Grant from NSF OISE
- 07/2018 Received Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) from Office of Research
- 06/2018 Congratulations to Xinyi Zhang for receiving the Richard Newton Young Fellow Award
- 06/2018 Congratulations to Mimi for receiving the 3rd Best Poster Award at DAC PhD Forum
- 04/2018 Received Hewlett International Grant from University Center for International Studies
- 11/2017 Received MCSI Seed Grant from the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
- 11/2017 Chair SIGDA's Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC 2018
- 11/2017 Guest Edit IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on Non-Volatile Memory, please consider submitting your work before Feb. 28, 2018
- 11/2017 Chair SIGDA's CADathlon 2017 Contest at ICCAD
- 10/2017 Co-Chair System Design Contest at DAC
- 08/2017 Joins ECE at University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor
- 04/2017 Congratulations to Mimi and Soroush for receiving the Richard Newton Young Fellow Award
- 11/2016 Co-Chair SIGDA's CADathlon 2016 Contest at ICCAD
- 04/2016 Received CEAT Outstanding New Faculty Award
- 04/2016 Congratulations to Mimi Xie for receiving Women's Faculty Council Research Award
- 11/2015 Co-Chair SIGDA's CADathlon 2015 Contest at ICCAD
- 08/2015 Proposal on Non-Volatile FPGA is funded by NSF CCF
- 03/2015 Received Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship
- 03/2015 Proposal on Non-Volatile Processor is funded by NSF CNS CRII Grant
- 10/2014 Co-Chair SIGDA's CADathlon 2014 Contest at ICCAD
- 08/2013 Joined ECE at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor