Welcome to the arcSYSu lab

Architecture and System Upscaling @ Sun Yat-sen University!
Architecture Research led by Xianwei (ARX)!

arcSYSu, abbreviated as ARX (pronounced /ɑːrks/, ARchitecture and system eXploration, or Architecture Research led by Xianwei), is a research group working under the guidance of Associate Professor Xianwei Zhang in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University. Our research focuses on advancing computer architecture, runtime and compilation systems for high-performance and intelligent computing. At arcSYSu, we are committed to design speedy, scalable and smart (S3) systems that push performance boundaries and drive the next-generation computational paradigms.

arcSYSu is proudly part of the Interdisciplinary Research Center (xRC), directed by Prof. Yutong Lu and Prof. Nong Xiao. We work closely with other exceptional teams across the center on a broad spectrum of HPC+AI design and application areas.

Our research is supported by prestigious programs, including the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as collaborative partnerships with industry leaders like Tencent®, Huawei® and Phytium®.

We are always seeking passionate PhD/MS students, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduates to join us in exploring the frontiers of computing! (For more details, please refer to our ↗ FAQs).

News

05/2026: [Paper] One paper (SMEAtten) accepted to Euro-Par'2026! Congrats to Tengyang!

04/2026: [Fund] Two grants awarded to accelerate GPU computing, and support agentic research! Thanks!

03/2026: [Tool] New YatCC platform released for AI-powered Teach+Research!

12/2025: [Teach] Two Provincal Teaching Awards received! Thanks all!

12/2025: [Paper] One paper on Compilation-assisted Emulation released on arXiv.

11/2025: [Paper] One paper (Bullet) accepted to ASPLOS'2026! Congrats to Zejia!

11/2025: [Paper] One paper (FusedRec) accepted to AAAI'2026! Congrats to Xuanteng and all collaborators!

11/2025: [Teach] YatCC-AI won the Grand Prize of CECC@Xiamen. Fantastic!

11/2025: [Paper] One paper (FedCM) accepted to DATE'2026! Congrats to Xuanteng!

10/2025: [Paper] One paper (HuntKTm) accepted to ACM TACO! Congrats to Wenxuan!

09/2025: [Paper] One paper (DynaPipe) accepted to NeurIPS'2025! Congrats to Hongxin and Tianyu!

09/2025: [People] Five new ARCSYSUers joined the lab. Welcome aboard!

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