Christopher Torng
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Education
- Doctoral Degree, Cornell University
- Master's Degree, Cornell University
- Bachelor's Degree, Cornell University
Biography
Christopher Torng joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in 2023.Prior to his appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University from 2019 to 2022. He operated as a faculty-equivalent research advisor in the Stanford Agile Hardware (AHA) center, where he worked on creating high-performance and energy-efficient architectures for domain-specific hardware acceleration, supported by an agile software-hardware co-design methodology.
He has over ten years of experience building complex digital SoCs as ASIC prototypes as well as new agile flow tools that have already supported tapeouts for over a dozen academic chips, implemented in technologies from 180nm to 12nm. His activities have resulted in his selection as a Rising Star in Computer Architecture by Georgia Tech as well as an IEEE MICRO Top Pick from Hot Chips.
Appointments
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
- EEB 204
- Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center
- 3740 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
- ctorng@usc.edu