Naifeng Zhang

Miami, Fall 2024

I received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with honors and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with honors from the University of Southern California, advised by Professor Viktor K. Prasanna.

My research interests lie in the areas of high-performance code generation, programming languages, compilers, and algorithms.

My undergraduate research is featured here.

Currently, I am contributing to SPIRAL, NTTX, and Semantics Lifting.

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Oct 02, 2025 talk	I gave a CALCM talk at Carnegie Mellon University on Towards Closing the Performance Gap for Cryptographic Kernels Between CPUs and Specialized Hardware.
Sep 23, 2025 talk	On October 18, I will give an invited talk at ZKARCH 2025 on Code Generation for Cryptographic Kernels using Multi-word Modular Arithmetic.
Sep 17, 2025 talk	I co-led the SPIRAL 8.5.1 tutorial at HPEC 2025.
Aug 05, 2025 service	I served on the Program Committee for AAAI 2026.
Jul 16, 2025 paper	Our paper on Towards Closing the Performance Gap for Cryptographic Kernels Between CPUs and Specialized Hardware was accepted at MICRO 2025.
May 27, 2025 service	I served on the Program Committee for the AI4Dev workshop, held in conjunction with ICPP 2025.
May 09, 2025 talk	I gave an ECE Seminar talk at the University of Southern California on Code Generation for Cryptographic Kernels using Multi-word Modular Arithmetic.
May 02, 2025 talk	I gave an ECE Seminar talk at New York University on Code Generation for Cryptographic Kernels using Multi-word Modular Arithmetic.
Apr 30, 2025 talk	I attended ORNL AI4Science Workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and presented Towards Semantics Lifting for Scientific Computing: A Case Study on FFT.
Apr 28, 2025 career	I will join the Programming Systems and Applications Research Group at NVIDIA Research this summer as an intern. See you in Santa Clara!

Please refer to my cv for the most up-to-date list of publications.