Michael Shen
Cornell ECE • Northeastern ECE '23
- New York, New York
- mts247 [at] cornell [dot] edu
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- GitHub
Hello! I'm Michael.
I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at Cornell University and a researcher in the Cornell Computer Systems Laboratory, co-advised by Professor Udit Gupta and Professor G. Edward Suh.
My current research interests are in the areas of computer architecture and computer systems for efficient machine learning. Recently, I have focused on improving inference pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic AI systems.
Before Cornell, I earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, where I was advised by Professor David Kaeli at the NUCAR Laboratory. At NUCAR, I helped develop several open source computer architecture simulators that are used for High Performance Computing (HPC) and security research.
Recent News
- MAY 2025 Gave a Talk on Hermes at the annual CSL Retreat!
- MAR 2025 Hermes: Algorithm-System Co-design for Efficient Retrieval Augmented Generation at Scale accepted for publication at ISCA 2025!
- JAN 2025 GME: GPU-based Microarchitectural Extensions to Accelerate Homomorphic Encryption selected as a Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security!
- DEC 2024 New preprint: Towards Understanding Systems Trade-offs in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Model Inference now available on arXiv.
- AUG 2023 Joined the Cornell Computer Systems Laboratory as a Ph.D. student!