Noelle G. Crawford

Hi, my name's Noelle. I'm a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by professor Jian Huang. My research targets next generation AI inference chips. I'm particularly interested in spatial architectures and the architectural implications of emerging technologies.

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Publications

Exploring the Efficiency of 3D-Stacked AI Chip Architecture for LLM Inference with Voxel. Yiqi Liu, Noelle Crawford, Michael Wang, Jilong Xue, and Jian Huang. ArXiv Preprint [preprint]

ELK: Exploring the Efficiency of Inter-core Connected AI Chips with Deep Learning Compiler Techniques. Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Noelle Crawford, Jilong Xue, and Jian Huang. Published in Proceedings of the 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO '25) [paper]

Teaching

ECE 511: Computer Architecture. Spring 2026.

ECE 411: Computer Organization and Design. Fall 2025.