Short Bio

Husnain Mubarik is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced Rendering Research group at AMD, specializing in Graphics and ML. His expertise involves hardware acceleration for neural graphics and generative AI applications.

During his Ph.D., Husnain closely worked with research teams from Intel Labs as a research intern. His work has earned two IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mentions and inclusion in ISCA’s 50-year retrospective. He was named a Rising Star in Machine Learning and Systems in 2023 and has received the prestigious Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship.

Husnain holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Rakesh Kumar, focusing on performance optimizations in neural graphics and emerging hardware systems. Before joining UIUC as a Ph.D. candidate, Husnain completed his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

📰 News

• NEW [December 2025] Attended UIDP Workshop: Identifying Opportunities to Dramatically Improve AI Efficiency.
• [May 2025] Organized ML and Systems Rising Stars Workshop at Meta.
• [June 2024] Joined the Advanced Rendering Research Group at AMD as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) focusing on Graphics and ML.
• [June 2024] Serving as Program Committee member at HPCA 2025.
• [May 2024] Successfully defended Ph.D. thesis titled "Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics".
• [May 2024] Organizing ML and Systems Rising Stars Program. Please consider applying.
• [May 2024] Organizing workshop "Emerging Vision and Graphics Systems and Architectures (EVGA)" at ISCA 2024.
• [March 2024] Received Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship for 2024-2025 Link.
• [February 2024] Space Microdatacenters (MICRO 2023) selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention 2024.
• [July 2023] Paper "Space Microdatacenters" accepted at MICRO-56th, 2023.
• [July 2023] Two-page retrospective for "Printed Microprocessors" now online at isca-retrospective.
• [June 2023] Presented "Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics" at ISCA-50th, 2023 SLIDES • Lightning-talk
• [May 2023] Selected as Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star by Harvard, Google, Nvidia and MLCommons.
• [May 2023] Joined Graphics Research Organization (GRO) at Intel as Full-time Graduate Research Intern.
• [May 2023] Selected for ISCA 50th anniversary retrospective (1996-2020) for "Printed Microprocessors" (ISCA-47th, 2020).
• [May 2023] Preprint: Understanding Interactions Between Chip Architecture and Uncertainties in Semiconductor Supply and Demand.
• [May 2023] Gave talk on "Neural Graphics: An Architecture's Perspective" at UIUC Slides.
• [April 2023] Camera ready: Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics.
• [March 2023] Preprint: Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics.
• [March 2023] Paper accepted at ISCA-50th, 2023 - "Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics".
• [October 2022] Paper accepted at DATE 2023 - "Exploiting Short Application Lifetimes for Low Cost Hardware Encryption".
• [March 2022] Paper accepted at ISCA-49th, 2022 - "Rethinking Programmable Earable Processors".
• [December 2021] Joined Cloud Systems Research Lab at Intel Labs as Part-time Graduate Research Intern.
• [May 2021] Joined Heterogeneous Platforms Labs at Intel Labs as Graduate Research Intern.
• [December 2020] Passed PhD qualification exam (Computer Architecture - ECE UIUC).
• [November 2020] Printed Machine Learning Classifiers selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention 2021.
• [October 2020] Presented "Printed Machine Learning Classifiers" at MICRO-53rd VIDEO.
• [July 2020] Paper accepted at MICRO 2020 - "Printed Machine Learning Classifiers".
• [March 2020] Paper accepted at ISCA-47th, 2020 - "Printed Microprocessors".
• [January 2019] Joined PASSAT group at UIUC supervised by Prof. Rakesh Kumar.
• [January 2019] Joined Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program at UIUC.

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🏆 Selected Honors & Awards

• ML & Systems Rising Star (2023) - Harvard, Google, Nvidia, MLCommons
• IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention (2024) - Space Microdatacenters
• IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention (2021) - Printed ML Classifiers
• Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship (2024-2025)
• ISCA 50-year Retrospective - Printed Microprocessors selected

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Last updated: January 2026