News

[February 10, 2026] Our paper "Scalable and robust multi-bit spintronic synapses for analog in-memory computing" has been published at the npj Unconventional Computing under Nature Publisher Group. Congratulations to all the collaborators!

[January 5, 2026]  Our project "Building Ferroelectronics Research Program At Microelectronics Research Center (MRC) For AI-Hardware And Beyond" has been selected for the $50K Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed at ISU. Looking forward to the exciting opportunity!

[September 15, 2025] Our paper "Stochastic nanomagnets as current digitizers for efficient probabilistic machine learning" has been accepted to Physical Review Applied. Congratulations to Ethan, Dooyong, and all the collaborators!

[September 5, 2025] Cheng and collaborators got the NSF Award on developing microelectronics and semiconductor workforce: "Beginnings: Semiconductor Training by Experiential Learning, Leadership and Applied Research". Looking forward to contributing to addressing the critical challenge of workforce development.

[August 15, 2025] Our paper "Area-Efficient Heterogeneous MRAM for High-Performing AI Acceleration" has been accepted to the inaugural Cross-disciplinary Conference on Memory-Centric Computing (CCMCC). Congratulations to all the contributors.

[June 30, 2025] We got the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-concept Exploratory Research (EAGER) Award: "Accelerating Scalable Stochastic Neuro-Inspired Computing With Spintronics: Devices to Systems". We are excited to explore stochastic compute with spintronics on a large scale.

[April 3, 2025] Cheng presented an invited talk on "Enabling Energy-Efficient Artificial Intelligence Hardware with Spintronics" at SPINTEC in Grenoble, France.

[April 1, 2025] Cheng presented FairXbar at Design Automation Test Europe (DATE) 2025 in Lyon, France.

[March 21, 2025] Cheng gave an invited talk at Western Digital Research on Emerging Computing with Spintronics.

[January 20, 2025] Md Shahedul Hasan Joined our group. Welcome Shahedul!

[January 16, 2025] Cheng presented a talk and poster, "Area-Efficient Integrated MRAM for High-Performing AI Acceleration," at the International Symposium on Integrated Magnetics (iSIM) in New Orleans.

[January 2, 2025] Cheng received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career (CAREER) Award on "Cross-Layer Integration of Stochastic Processing Ensembles for Versatile Intelligent Computing". Thanks NSF! Looking forward to the journey ahead.

[December 16, 2024] Two papers are presented at the International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) in San Diego. We are excited to receive the Best Paper Award! And Congratulations to Ethan for the Best Student Presentation!

[October 24, 2024] A comprehensive review "Spintronic neural systems" is published in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering.

[September 12, 2024] Cheng was invited to participate the Department of Energy Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing for Science. A position paper "Enabling scalable neuromorphic systems with error-aware simulation frameworks" is presented.

[September, 2023] Cheng was invited to present at Department Seminar at University of Pittsburg.

[August, 2023] Cheng was invited to give a talk on SPIE Annual Conference.

[November, 2022] Cheng attended ICCAD 2022, with a paper "Design space and memory technology co-exploration for in-memory computing based machine learning accelerators", in collaboration with Dr. Kaushik Roy from Purdue.