RapidStream was founded by a team of world-renowned experts and rising stars in electronic design automation from UCLA and Cornell. Our technologies have received multiple Best Paper Awards at premier research conferences in FPGA technology.
Who We Are
Meet the Founders
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CEO
Licheng received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from UCLA in 2022 and 2021, respectively. He has working experience at VMware research, AMD/Xilinx Research Lab, and Meta. Licheng has 20 peer-reviewed publications and has two Best Paper Awards in FPGA 2021 and 2022.
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CTO
Jason received a master’s degree in computer science from UCLA in 2022 and expects to receive a Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 2023. Jason has worked at CERNET CNGI, Google Cloud, and AMD/Xilinx Research Lab. Jason has 12 peer-reviewed papers published with one of them recognized as the Best Paper.
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Chief Scientist
Prof. Jason Cong is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the UCLA Computer Science Department. He is a a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and fellow of ACM, IEEE, the National Academy of Inventors. Prof. Cong co-founded AutoESL and Falcon Computing, which were both acquired by AMD/Xilinx and evolved into today's Vitis HLS.
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Chief Technology Advisor
Prof. Zhiru Zhang is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University and a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow. Prof. Zhang co-founded AutoESL, which was acquired by AMD/Xilinx and evolved into today's Vitis HLS.