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Research & Exploration

The High-Performance Low-Power (HPLP) Laboratory, led by Professor Mircea Stan, is dedicated to research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware and edge IoT. Ongoing research spans a wide range of topics, from Processing-in-Memory (PiM), low-power hardware accelerator design, and Smart Dust, to explorations in spintronics and nanoelectronics.

Latest News

The Power of Low-Energy Coding Techniques

Mircea Stan’s first-authored paper on using code to reduce power consumption in electronics won the IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award.

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Professor Mircea Stan Appointed Director of UVA’s Computer Engineering Program

Stan envisions a computer engineering program that balances fundamentals with cutting-edge hardware systems and software applications.

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University of Virginia and Penn State Researchers Launch Program to Develop New Hardware System

$1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s ASCENT program supports their research.

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Our Faculty

Mircea R. Stan

Director of Computer Engineering Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) Professor

Mircea R. Stan is teaching and doing research in the areas of AI hardware, Processing in Memory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational RFID, Low Power, Spintronics, and Nanoelectronics.
Link Lab Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) IUCRC Center Center for Automata Processing (CAP) High Performance Low Power (HPLP)
Email mircea@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 924-3503

Available Positions

The HPLP lab is currently looking for innovative, hard working  and intelligent professionals  who are interested in Processing in Memory, FPGA applications, AI and Deep Nueral Networks and ultra low power circuit design. Prospective students and researchers can contact the lab at mircea@virginia.edu for more information about joining our group.