2026
ISPASS 2026
CCPA: A Concurrent Content Processing Architecture for Hardware Firewalls
Separating stateful inspection from content processing to let hardware firewalls inspect packets concurrently across multiple processing cards.
Computer architecture & hardware systems
Shuangliang (David) Chen.
PhD candidate University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
I’m a PhD candidate in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Rakesh Kumar. My research interests include Computer Architecture and Hardware System Design.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
01 / Research
Selected publications
2025
ICCAD 2025
Waferscale Silicon Photonics Systems: A Cost-Benefit Analysis and Optimization
Comparing photonic and electrical interconnects at waferscale, and designing waveguide networks that reduce power overheads and support highly connected topologies.
2024
ISCA 2024IEEE Micro Top Pick 2025
Waferscale Network Switches
Exploring the architecture, bandwidth, and power tradeoffs of chiplet-based waferscale switches for larger, more connected computing systems.
02 / Updates
Recent news
Our paper CCPA: A Concurrent Content Processing Architecture for Hardware Firewalls at ISPASS 2026.
Received the Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship for the 2025–2026 academic year, with a $5,000 award.
Passed my PhD qualifying exam!
Waferscale Network Switches selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick 2025.
Received the Qualcomm Graduate Award, with $5,000 for Spring 2025.
Waferscale Network Switches accepted at ISCA 2024.
Joined the UIUC ECE PhD program, working with Prof. Rakesh Kumar.
Summer internship with the PyTorch Dev Infra team at Meta.