Hanrui Wang

Hanrui Wang

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (STARTING NOVEMBER 1, 2025)
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Engineering VI - Room 277

Email: wang@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-3321
Fax: (310) 825-2273

Websites

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Efficient AI computing with hardware-architecture-algorithm co-design
  • Quantum computing compiler, architecture, and systems
  • Large language models and generative AI systems
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
  • HAT: Hardware-Aware Transformers for Efficient Natural Language Processing, ACL 2020. Hanrui Wang, Zhanghao Wu, Zhijian Liu, Han Cai, Ligeng Zhu, Chuang Gan, Song Han
  • Atomique: A Quantum Compiler for Reconfigurable Neutral Atom Arrays, ISCA 2024. Hanrui Wang, Pengyu Liu, Bochen Tan, Yilian Liu, Jiaqi Gu, David Z. Pan, Jason Cong, Umut Acar, Song Han
  • SpAtten: Efficient Sparse Attention Architecture with Cascade Token and Head Pruning, HPCA 2021. Hanrui Wang, Zhekai Zhang, Song Han
  • QuantumNAS: Noise-Adaptive Search for Robust Quantum Circuits, HPCA 2022. Hanrui Wang, Yongshan Ding, Jiaqi Gu, Zirui Li, Yujun Lin, David Z. Pan, Fred Chong, Song Han
  • Park: An Open Platform for Learning-Augmented Computer Systems, NeurIPS 2019, Hongzi Mao, Parimarjan Negi, Akshay Narayan, Hanrui Wang, Jiacheng Yang, Haonan Wang, Ryan Marcus, Mehrdad Khani Shirkoohi, Songtao He, Vikram Nathan, Frank Cangialosi, Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan, Wei-Hung Weng, Song Han, Tim Kraska, Mohammad Alizadeh
  • Q-Pilot: Field Programmable Qubit Array Compilation with Flying Ancillas, DAC 2024. Hanrui Wang, Bochen Tan, Pengyu Liu, Yilian Liu, Jiaqi Gu, Jason Cong, Song Han
EDUCATION
PhD, (2024) MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Best Paper Award, QCE 2023
  • Best Paper Award, ICML RL4RL Workshop 2019
  • Best Poster Award, NSF Athena AI Institute 2022
  • Gold Medal, ACM Student Research Competition, 2022
  • Rising Star of ML and Systems, MLCommons 2023
  • Rising Star in Solid-State Circuits, ISSCC 2024