Contact
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 
About Me
I am a Professor at Pitt and directing the Nexus Lab. We are interested in enabling complex AI — agents, vision-language-action models, and multimodal reasoning — to run efficiently and continually on edge devices where compute, thermal, and privacy budgets are severely constrained, in order to serve real people, especially aging adults and those with cognitive and mental health needs. You can check out our lab publication here. Here is my Google Scholar Profile and DBLP
Research Interests
Hardware/Software Co-design, Embedded Systems, On-Device AI, Digital Health
News
- 08/2026 Promoted to Full Professor, effective 09/01/2026.
- 05/2025 IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems.
- 06/2024 Under-40 Innovators Award, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC).
- 05/2024 Awarded JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.
- 05/2024 Awarded Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
- 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