About

I am a PhD student in the Computation Structures Group (CSG) at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Arvind.
My interests are in hardware design (FPGA/ASIC), application-specific accelerators, embedded systems and computer architecture.

Prior to joining MIT, I earned a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Update 1/2017: I've joined Microsoft Research working on Project Catapult.

Publications

• minFlash: A Minimalistic Clustered Flash Array
  Ming Liu, Sang-Woo Jun, Sungjin Lee, Jamey Hicks, Arvind
  Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '16)
  Dresden, Germany. March 2016
  [pdf]


• Application-Managed Flash
  Sungjin Lee, Ming Liu, Sang-Woo Jun, Shuotao Xu, Jihong Kim, Arvind
  USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’16)
  Santa Clara, CA, USA. February 2016
  [pdf]


• A Transport-Layer Network for Distributed FPGA Platforms
  Sang-Woo Jun, Ming Liu, Shuotao Xu, Arvind
  International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL '15)
  London, UK. September 2015
  [pdf]


• BlueDBM: An Appliance for Big Data Analytics
  Sang-Woo Jun, Ming Liu, Sungjin Lee, Jamey Hicks, John Ankcorn, Myron King, Shuotao Xu, Arvind
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '15)
  Portland, OR, USA. June 2015
  [pdf]


• Composing Multi-Ported Memories on FPGAs
  Charles Eric LaForest, Zimo Li, Tristan O'Rourke, Ming Liu, J. Gregory Steffan
  Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), Volume 7, Issue 3
  September 2014
  [pdf]


• Scalable Multi-Access Flash Store for Big Data Analytics
  Sang-Woo Jun, Ming Liu, Kermin Elliott Fleming, Arvind
  International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '14)
  Monterey, CA, USA. February 2014
  [pdf]


• Multi-Ported Memories for FPGAs via XOR
  Charles Eric LaForest, Ming Liu, Emma Rae Rapati, and J. Gregory Steffan
  International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '12)
  Monterey, CA, USA. February 2012
  [pdf]

Courses

• 6.824: Distributed Systems, Spring 2015
• 6.869: Advances in Computer Vision, Fall 2013
• 6.375: Complex Digital Systems Design, Spring 2013
• 6.823: Computer System Architecture, Fall 2012
• 6.840: Theory of Computation, Fall 2012

Work Experience

• Microsoft Research, Research Intern, May 2016 to Aug 2016
• Google, Software Engineering Intern, May 2015 to Aug 2015
• Altera, Memory IP Intern, May 2012 to Aug 2012
• AMD, ASIC Design Verification Intern, May 2010 to May 2011
• BlackBerry, Audio Engineer Associate, May 2009 to May 2010

Press

• Cutting cost and power consumption for big data, MIT News, [article]
• Storage system for big data dramatically speeds access to information, MIT News, [article]