About iSING Lab

iSING Lab (intelligent Networking and Systems Lab) is from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, led by Prof. Kai Chen.

The team at iSING Lab focus on the following research areas:

  • Data Center Networking
  • High-performance Networking
  • AI-Centric Networking
  • Machine Learning Systems
  • Privacy-preserving Computing

We have openings for PhD students and PostDocs with research interests in the areas above. You are welcome to contact us for details.

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TACC: Turing AI Computing Cloud  

TACC (tacc.ust.hk) manages clusters of over 160 GPU cards for AI research and education, with open access to HKUST and the research community.

TACC accelerates AI applications with a high-performance and scalable infrastructure, including efficient ML systems for optimized model training,cluster scheduling for resource allocation, and AI-centric networking to reduce latency in AI workloads.

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TACC-managed clusters

397

Active TACC users since 2021/05

24,303

Task process on TACC clusters

235,739

GPU hours used for ML tasks

iSING Lab Team

iSING members come from top universities in China. Graduates with PhDs and postdoctoral fellows typically join prestigious universities, research institutions, and technology companies both domestically and internationally, such as the University of Waterloo, HKUST (Guangzhou), Microsoft Research, and Huawei.

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