Jekyll2026-07-18T16:36:37-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/feed.xmlTor AamodtUBC homepage for Professor Tor AamodtPaper accepted at MICRO 20262026-07-07T10:00:00-07:002026-07-07T10:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2026/07/07/MICROLucy’s paper, RoboGPU: Accelerating GPU Collision Detection for Robotics, was accepted to appear at the 59th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-59).]]>Paper accepted at ICLR 20262026-01-26T05:00:00-08:002026-01-26T05:00:00-08:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2026/01/26/ICLRNingfeng’s paper, Boosting Entropy with Bell Box Quantization was accepted at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)!
(updated Mar 2)
]]>Paper accepted at NeurIPS 20252025-09-18T11:50:00-07:002025-09-18T11:50:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2025/09/18/NeurIPSNingfeng’s paper, Improving the Straight-Through Estimator with Zeroth-Order Information, was accepted to appear at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).]]>Two papers accepted at MICRO 20252025-07-14T10:00:00-07:002025-07-14T10:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2025/07/14/MICROMohammadreza’s paper, RayN: Ray Tracing Acceleration with Near-memory Computing, was accepted to appear at the 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-58). I am also a co-author on a second accepted paper, with researchers at Princeton, on a new multithreading mechanism for CPUs.]]>Paper accepted at ICML 20252025-05-01T10:00:00-07:002025-05-01T10:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2025/05/01/ICMLLucy’s paper, ReFrame: Layer Caching for Accelerated Inference in Real-Time Rendering,
on the topic of reducing runtime of deep learning inference techniques used in real-time rendering
was accepted to appear at the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)!]]>Paper accepted at ICRA 20252025-01-27T15:00:00-08:002025-01-27T15:00:00-08:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2025/01/27/ICRAJocelyn and Deval’s paper, Neural Encodings for Energy-Efficient Motion Planning,
on the topic of improving the energy efficiently and success rates of neural path planning
was accepted to appear at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!]]>Paper accepted at ASPLOS 20252025-01-27T14:00:00-08:002025-01-27T14:00:00-08:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2025/01/27/ASPLOSTommy’s paper, Treelet Accelerated Ray Tracing on GPUs,
on the topic of hardware changes to improve ray tracing performance on modern GPUs
was accepted to appear at the 2025 ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)!]]>Paper(s) accepted at MICRO 20242024-07-17T10:00:00-07:002024-07-17T10:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2024/07/17/MICROLucy and Tommy’s paper, Generalizing Ray Tracing Accelerators for Tree Traversals on GPUs,
on the topic of extending ray tracing accelerator cores within GPUs to support general purpose computations, co-authored
with researchers at Yonsei University and University of California at Riverside, was accepted to appear in
the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-57). I am also a co-author
on a second paper with researchers with KAIST on network on chip design for GPUs.
(Updated 3 Nov, 2024)
]]>Paper accepted at QCE 20242024-07-15T17:00:00-07:002024-07-15T17:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2024/07/15/QCEGideon’s, Graph-based identification of qubit network (GidNET) for qubit reuse,
on the topic of faster identification of high quality qubit reuse for quantum computing circuit optimization was
accepted to appear in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE24).]]>Two papers accepted at ISCA 20242024-03-19T15:00:00-07:002024-03-19T15:00:00-07:00http://localhost:4444/~aamodt/jekyll/update/2024/03/19/ISCADeval’s paper, Collision Prediction for Robotics Accelerators,
on the topic of hardware accelerators for robotics
along with a paper I collaborated on with researchers from several institutions (led by Ishita Chaturvedi at Princeton),
GhOST: a GPU Out-of-Order Scheduling Technique for stall reduction,
on the topic of out-of-order execution on GPUs,
were accepted to appear at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)!]]>