I am currently a PhD student in the Electronic and Computer Engineering department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems, and a member of Vision and System Design Lab (VSDL) under the supervision of Prof. Kwang-Ting CHENG. I obtained my BEng degree in Microelectronic Science and Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology in 2022, advised by Prof. Fengwei An. My research realm focuses on computer vision, model compression, AI chip, computer architecture, and software-hardware co-design. You can find more information through my CV. Welcome to contact with me if you have any interests.
E-mail: pingcheng.dong@connect.ust.hk | WeChat: PN-Junction
📖 Educations
- 2022.09 - Present, PhD in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- 2018.08 - 2022.06, BEng in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology. GPA: 3.84/4.00, Rank: 4/93
- 2015.09 - 2018.06, Guangdong Beijiang Middle School.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024 HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award
- 2022 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS)
- 2022 HKUST RedBird PhD Scholarship
- 2022 Outstanding Graduate (Top 8 in the College of Engineering, SUSTech)
- 2021 China National Scholarship (Top 8 in SUSTech)
- 2021 Scientific Research Star (Top 1 in Shuren College, SUSTech)
- 2020 The First Prize of Outstanding Students in SUSTech (Top 5% in SUSTech)
- 2019 The Second Prize of Outstanding Students in SUSTech (Top 10% in SUSTech)
🔥 News
- 2022.6.6: 🎉🎉 Our stereo depth coprocessor has sucessfully been taped out in TSMC 28nm CMOS technology!
- 2023.5.24: 🎉🎉 One paper “A 1920×1080 129fps 4.3pJ/Pixel Stereo-Matching Processor for Pico Aerial Vehicles” has been accepted by IEEE ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2023!
- 2024.2.8: 🎉🎉 One collaborative paper “Stereo Matching Accelerator with Re-Computation Scheme and Data-Reused Pipeline for Autonomous Vehicles” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers!
- 2024.2.27: 🎉🎉 One paper “Genetic Quantization-Aware Approximation for Non-Linear Operations in Transformers” has been accepted by ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024! (Acceptance Rate: 23%)
- 2024.2.27: 🎉🎉 One paper “Additive Partial Sum Quantization” has been accepted by ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024 Work-in-Progress Poster Session!
- 2024.5.9: 🎉🎉 I pass the PhD Qualifying Exam (PQE) and become a PhD candidate!
- 2024.10.11: 🎉🎉 One paper “A 28nm 0.22μJ/Token Memory-Compute-Intensity-Aware CNN-Transformer Accelerator with Hybrid-Attention-Based Layer-Fusion and Cascaded Pruning for Semantic-Segmentation” has been accepted by IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2025!
📝 Main Publications
A 28nm 0.22μJ/Token Memory-Compute-Intensity-Aware CNN-Transformer Accelerator with Hybrid-Attention-Based Layer-Fusion and Cascaded Pruning for Semantic-Segmentation
Pingcheng Dong, Yonghao Tan, Xuejiao Liu, Peng Luo, Yu Liu, Luhong Liang, Yitong Zhou, Di Pang, Manto Yung, Dong Zhang, Xijie Huang, Shih-Yang Liu, Yongkun Wu, Fengshi Tian, Chi-Ying Tsui, Fengbin Tu, Kwang-Ting Cheng.
2025, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
Genetic Quantization-Aware Approximation for Non-Linear Operations in Transformers
Pingcheng Dong, Yonghao Tan, Dong Zhang, Tianwei Ni, Xuejiao Liu, Yu Liu, Peng Luo, Luhong Liang, Shih-Yang Liu, Xijie Huang, Huaiyu Zhu, Yun Pan, Fengwei An and Kwang-Ting Cheng.
2024, 61th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
A 1920×1080 129fps 4.3pJ/Pixel Stereo-Matching Processor for Pico Aerial Vehicles
Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoyu Chen, Ke Li, Lei Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Fengwei An.
2023, IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)
Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoyu Chen, Zhuoao Li, Yuzhe Fu, Lei Chen, Fengwei An.
2021, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
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Configurable Image Rectification and Disparity Refinement for Stereo Vision. Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoyu Chen, Zhuoao Li, Ruoheng Yao, Wenyue Zhang, Yangyi Zhang, Lei Chen, Chao Wang, Fengwei An. 2022 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II)
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A 139 fps pixel-level pipelined binocular stereo vision accelerator with region-optimized semi-global matching. Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoao Li, Zhuoyu Chen, Ruoheng Yao, Huanshihong Deng, Wenyue Zhang, Yangyi Zhang, Lei Chen, Chao Wang, Fengwei An. 2021 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)
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Real-Time FPGA-Based Binocular Stereo Vision System with Semi-Global Matching Algorithm. Zhuoyu Chen, Pingchen Dong, Zhuoao Li, Ruoheng Yao, Yunhao Ma, Xiwei Fang, Huanshihong Deng, Wenyue Zhang, Lei Chen, Fengwei An. 2021 IEEE 34th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC)
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Robot navigation based on pseudo-binocular stereo vision and linear fitting. Huanshihong Deng, Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoao Li, Haoran Lyu, Yangyi Zhang, Yiwei Luo, Fengwei An. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA)
📝 Collaborative Publications
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Stereo Matching Accelerator with Re-Computation Scheme and Data-Reused Pipeline for Autonomous Vehicles. Ke Li, Xiwei Fang, Yunhao Ma, Wenyue Zhang, Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoyu Chen, Lei Chen, Fengwei An. 2024, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
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BREAD: Boundary and Relation Distillation for Semantic Segmentation. Dong Zhang, Pingcheng Dong, Xinting Hu, Long Chen, Kwang-Ting Cheng. 2024, arXiv
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LLM-FP4: 4-Bit Floating-Point Quantized Transformers. Shih-yang Liu, Zechun Liu, Xijie Huang, Pingcheng Dong, Kwang-Ting Cheng. 2023, EMNLP Main Conference
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A Compact Hardware Architecture for Bilateral Filter with the Combination of Approximate Computing and Look-up Table. Ruoheng Yao, Lei Chen, Pingcheng Dong, Zhuoyu Chen, Fengwei An. 2022, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
😀 Teaching Assistant
- ELEC3400 Introduction to Integrated Circuits and Systems (2023 Spring)
- ELEC4320 FPGA based Design: From Theory to Practice (2023 Fall)