Faculty Profiles - MA Songchen | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Songchen MA
馬松辰

PhD in Instrumentation Science and Technology
Tsinghua University, 2024

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

songchenma@ust.hk
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ORCID

0000-0002-7913-046X

ResearcherID

JCD-7187-2023

Scopus ID

57222001799

Research Interest Publications

Research Interest

Computer architecture
Very large-scale integration (VLSI)
Brain-inspired computing
Computing system for embodied AI
Mobile robots

Publications

All Years 8 2026 6 2025 2 2024 0 2023 0 2022 0 2021 0

2026 6

RS-LPU: A ReRAM-on-Logic Stacked Large Language Model Accelerator With Software–Hardware Co-Designed Weight Compression and Speculative Decoding

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, article number 11657928
Dong, Pingcheng; Tan, Yonghao; Liu, Xuejiao; Luo, Peng; Liu, Yu; Pang, Di; Tian, Fengshi; Ma, Songchen; Huang, Xijie; Liu, Shih Yang; Zhang, Dong; Lu, Zhichao; Liang, Luhong; Tsui, Chi Ying; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Liang; Cheng, Kwang Ting
Article

A 14.08-to-135.69Token/s ReRAM-on-Logic Stacked Outlier-Free Large-Language-Model Accelerator with Block-Clustered Weight-Compression and Adaptive Parallel-Speculative-Decoding

2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 532-534article number 11409211
Dong, Pingcheng; Tan, Yonghao; Liu, Xuejiao; Luo, Peng; Liu, Yu; Pang, Di; Ma, Songchen; Huang, Xijie; Liu, Shih Yang; Zhang, Dong; Lu, Zhichao; Liang, Luhong; Tsui, Chi Ying; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Liang; Cheng, Kwang Ting
Conference paper

A 5nm 91.43 TOPS/W 4-Chiplet Generalizable-Rendering-Processor with UCIe-Enabled Cross-Die-Cache and Balance-Aware Progressive Multi-Level Sparsity

2026 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2026 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, article number 11509482
TAN, Yonghao; Ma, Songchen; DONG, Pingcheng; Luo, Peng; LEI, Zhiyuan; LU, Wencai; Ying, Gangxi; YUNG, Man To; ZHAO, Haibo; Liu, Lan; JIAO, Yuzhong; Liu, Xuejiao; LIU, Yu; Li, Li; LIANG, Luhong; Liu, Mao; CHENG, Tim Kwang-Ting
Conference paper

Bridging Efficiency and Scalability in Llm System Via 3D Hybrid Pim With 2D in-Transit Computation

2026 ACM/IEEE 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 2615-2631article number 11617417
Li, Hongyi; Ma, Songchen; Qu, Huanyu; Zhang, Weihao; Chen, Jia; Lin, Junfeng; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Rong
Conference paper

Optimizing Spatial Data Structure with Near-Cache Acceleration by Exploiting Physical Locality

2026 ACM/IEEE 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 2600-2614article number 11617917
Li, Hongyi; Liu, Yijia; Pei, Haoran; Yang, Qingyuan; Pan, Zijian; Ma, Songchen; Li, Leshan; Zhao, Rong; Ji, Xinglong
Conference paper

Self-Calibrated Consistency can Fight Back for Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
Liu, Jiaxiang; Du, Jiawei; Liu, Xiao; Li, Shangyang; Ma, S.; Wang, Changshuo; Tiwari, Prayag; Xu, Mingkun
Conference paper

2025 2

RoboSpike: Fully Utilizing the Heterogeneous System With Subcallback Scheduling in ROS 2

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, v. 44, (8), p. 2897-2910, article number 10870360
Li, Hongyi; Yang, Qingyuan; Ma, Songchen; Zhao, Rong; Ji, Xinglong
Article

CoXplorer: Multi-Staged Co-Exploration Framework for AI Model Compression and Accelerator Design

2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2025 - Conference Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025, article number 11240731
Ma, Songchen; Wu, Junyi; Tan, Yonghao; Dong, Pingcheng; Luo, Peng; Pang, Di; Liu, Yu; Liu, Xuejiao; Liang, Luhong; Cheng, Kwang Ting; Tu, Fengbin
Conference paper

Article 1

RS-LPU: A ReRAM-on-Logic Stacked Large Language Model Accelerator With Software–Hardware Co-Designed Weight Compression and Speculative Decoding

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, article number 11657928
Dong, Pingcheng; Tan, Yonghao; Liu, Xuejiao; Luo, Peng; Liu, Yu; Pang, Di; Tian, Fengshi; Ma, Songchen; Huang, Xijie; Liu, Shih Yang; Zhang, Dong; Lu, Zhichao; Liang, Luhong; Tsui, Chi Ying; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Liang; Cheng, Kwang Ting

Conference paper 5

A 14.08-to-135.69Token/s ReRAM-on-Logic Stacked Outlier-Free Large-Language-Model Accelerator with Block-Clustered Weight-Compression and Adaptive Parallel-Speculative-Decoding

2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 532-534article number 11409211
Dong, Pingcheng; Tan, Yonghao; Liu, Xuejiao; Luo, Peng; Liu, Yu; Pang, Di; Ma, Songchen; Huang, Xijie; Liu, Shih Yang; Zhang, Dong; Lu, Zhichao; Liang, Luhong; Tsui, Chi Ying; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Liang; Cheng, Kwang Ting

A 5nm 91.43 TOPS/W 4-Chiplet Generalizable-Rendering-Processor with UCIe-Enabled Cross-Die-Cache and Balance-Aware Progressive Multi-Level Sparsity

2026 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2026 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, article number 11509482
TAN, Yonghao; Ma, Songchen; DONG, Pingcheng; Luo, Peng; LEI, Zhiyuan; LU, Wencai; Ying, Gangxi; YUNG, Man To; ZHAO, Haibo; Liu, Lan; JIAO, Yuzhong; Liu, Xuejiao; LIU, Yu; Li, Li; LIANG, Luhong; Liu, Mao; CHENG, Tim Kwang-Ting

Bridging Efficiency and Scalability in Llm System Via 3D Hybrid Pim With 2D in-Transit Computation

2026 ACM/IEEE 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 2615-2631article number 11617417
Li, Hongyi; Ma, Songchen; Qu, Huanyu; Zhang, Weihao; Chen, Jia; Lin, Junfeng; Tu, Fengbin; Zhao, Rong

Optimizing Spatial Data Structure with Near-Cache Acceleration by Exploiting Physical Locality

2026 ACM/IEEE 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, p. 2600-2614article number 11617917
Li, Hongyi; Liu, Yijia; Pei, Haoran; Yang, Qingyuan; Pan, Zijian; Ma, Songchen; Li, Leshan; Zhao, Rong; Ji, Xinglong

Self-Calibrated Consistency can Fight Back for Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
Liu, Jiaxiang; Du, Jiawei; Liu, Xiao; Li, Shangyang; Ma, S.; Wang, Changshuo; Tiwari, Prayag; Xu, Mingkun

Article 1

RoboSpike: Fully Utilizing the Heterogeneous System With Subcallback Scheduling in ROS 2

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, v. 44, (8), p. 2897-2910, article number 10870360
Li, Hongyi; Yang, Qingyuan; Ma, Songchen; Zhao, Rong; Ji, Xinglong

Conference paper 1

CoXplorer: Multi-Staged Co-Exploration Framework for AI Model Compression and Accelerator Design

2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2025 - Conference Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025, article number 11240731
Ma, Songchen; Wu, Junyi; Tan, Yonghao; Dong, Pingcheng; Luo, Peng; Pang, Di; Liu, Yu; Liu, Xuejiao; Liang, Luhong; Cheng, Kwang Ting; Tu, Fengbin

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