Publications

Collaborators

Collaborations always make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. I have been fortunate to learn from and publish with the following 107 co-authors:

Vaughn Betz (25), Eriko Nurvitadhi (12), Sergey Gribok (4), Sadegh Yazdanshenas (4), Aman Arora (3), Mathew Hall (3), Kenneth B. Kent (3), Dongup Kwon (3), Fatemehsadat Mahmoudi (3), Amin Mohaghegh (3), Anupreetham (2), Yu Cao (2), Seyed Alireza Damghani (2), Mohamed Eldafrawy (2), Mohamed A. Elgammal (2), Diana Göhringer (2), Mohamed Ibrahim (2), Ali Jafari (2), Lizy K. John (2), Ajay Kuzhively (2), Martin Langhammer (2), Rui Ma (2), Abinash Mohanty (2), Stephen More (2), Jens Rettkowski (2), Jae-Sun Seo (2), Soheil Gholami Shahrouz (2), Mustafa Abbas (1), Mohamed S. Abdelfattah (1), Tanmay Anand (1), Pranavi Appana (1), Charles Augustine (1), Valeria Bertacco (1), Kwadwo Boateng (1), Aatman Borda (1), Prerna Budhkar (1), Gregory Chen (1), Paul Chow (1), Xilai Dai (1), Reetuparna Das (1), Aravind Dasu (1), Ahmed Elsousy (1), Hongxiang Fan (1), Joshua Fife (1), Tushar Garg (1), Evangelos Georganas (1), Barbara Georgey (1), Mohamed A. Abd El Ghany (1), Jeff Goeders (1), Vidushi Goyal (1), Brett Grady (1), Karthik Gururaj (1), Alexander Heinecke (1), Salma Hesham (1), James C. Hoe (1), Suyeon Hur (1), Mahesh A. Iyer (1), Ravi Iyer (1), Nachiket Kapre (1), Sangram Kate (1), Daniel Khadivi (1), Jangwoo Kim (1), Joonsung Kim (1), Phil Knag (1), Fahrican Koşar (1), Ram Krishnamurthy (1), Raghavan Kumar (1), Milo Liebster (1), Wayne Luk (1), Debbie Marr (1), Karan Mathur (1), Samidh Mehta (1), Marwan Mekhemer (1), Jiuxi Meng (1), Vedant Mohanty (1), Kevin Murray (1), Seongmin Na (1), Mishali Naik (1), Hiroki Nakahara (1), Xinyu Niu (1), Nicolas Papernot (1), Bogdan Pasca (1), Pragnesh Patel (1), Amirhossein Poolad (1), Abirami Prabhakaran (1), Junius Pun (1), Zhiqiang Que (1), Aishwarya Rajen (1), Daniel Rauch (1), Raphael Rowley (1), David Sheffield (1), Jaewoong Sim (1), Srivatsan Srinivasan (1), Huseyin Sumbul (1), Kimia Talaei (1), Phillip Tomson (1), Kuen Hung Tsoi (1), Balaji Venkatesh (1), Xiaowei Wang (1), Hang Yan (1), James Yen (1), Jiecao Yu (1), Chenglong Zeng (1), Grace Zgheib (1), Rongbo Zhang (1), Taikun Zhang (1), Zhipeng Zhao (1).

Publication summary

Book Chapters: 1
Refereed Journal Papers: 12
Refereed Conference Papers: 24
Best Paper Awards: 5
Best Paper Nominations: 11
h-Index: 23
i10-index: 29
Total Citations: 1,697

All publications

2026

Jack of All Scales: A Versatile FPGA Tensor Block for MXFP Precisions

– Marwan Mekhemer, Ahmed Elsousy, Balaji Venkatesh, Raphael Rowley, Vaughn Betz, Nachiket Kapre, and Andrew Boutros IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

From Patterns to Parsers: Automatic Generation of Efficient Hardware Parsers for FPGAs

– Tushar Garg, and Andrew Boutros IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

Modeling, Optimizing and Exploring Multi-Die FPGA Routing Architectures

– Amirhossein Poolad, Soheil Gholami Shahrouz, Andrew Boutros, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Best Paper Nomination

Déjà Vu Packing: Optimizing FPGA Logic Clustering Runtime via Pattern Memoization

– Milo Liebster, Amin Mohaghegh, and Andrew Boutros IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)Video

The Optimal, The Fast, and The Hybrid: Automatic Placement and Routing for AIE Arrays

– Hang Yan, James Yen, Rongbo Zhang, Andrew Boutros, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)Best Paper NominationVideo

2025

VTR 9: Open-Source CAD for Fabric and Beyond FPGA Architecture Exploration

– Mohamed A. Elgammal, Amin Mohaghegh, Soheil Gholami Shahrouz, Fatemehsadat Mahmoudi, Fahrican Koşar, Kimia Talaei, Joshua Fife, Daniel Khadivi, Kevin Murray, Andrew Boutros, Kenneth B. Kent, Jeff Goeders, and Vaughn Betz ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)GitHub Repo

Double Duty: FPGA Architecture to Enable Concurrent LUT and Adder Chain Usage

– Junius Pun, Xilai Dai, Grace Zgheib, Mahesh A. Iyer, Andrew Boutros, Vaughn Betz, and Mohamed S. Abdelfattah IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Best Paper Award

2024

High Throughput FPGA-Based Object Detection via Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design

– Anupreetham, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mathew Hall, Andrew Boutros, Ajay Kuzhively, Abinash Mohanty, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Vaughn Betz, Yu Cao, and Jae-Sun Seo ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)

Field-Programmable Gate Array Architecture for Deep Learning: Survey & Future Directions

– Andrew Boutros, Aman Arora, and Vaughn Betz Proceedings of the IEEE

A Software-Programmable Neural Processing Unit for Graph Neural Network Inference on FPGAs

– Taikun Zhang, Andrew Boutros, Sergey Gribok, Kwadwo Boateng, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Best Paper Nomination

2023

A Fast and Flexible FPGA-Based Accelerator for Natural Language Processing Neural Networks

– Suyeon Hur, Seongmin Na, Dongup Kwon, Joonsung Kim, Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, and Jangwoo Kim ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

Koios 2.0: Open-Source Deep Learning Benchmarks for FPGA Architecture and CAD Research

– Aman Arora, Andrew Boutros, Seyed Alireza Damghani, Karan Mathur, Vedant Mohanty, Tanmay Anand, Mohamed A. Elgammal, Kenneth B. Kent, Vaughn Betz, and Lizy K. John IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)

Placement Optimization for NoC-Enhanced FPGAs

– Srivatsan Srinivasan, Andrew Boutros, Fatemehsadat Mahmoudi, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)Best Paper NominationVideo

A Whole New World: How to Architect Beyond-FPGA Reconfigurable Acceleration Devices?

– Andrew Boutros, Stephen More, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

Field-Programmable Gate Array Architecture

– Andrew Boutros, and Vaughn Betz Handbook of Computer Architecture

Into the Third Dimension: Architecture Exploration Tools for 3D Reconfigurable Acceleration Devices

– Andrew Boutros, Fatemehsadat Mahmoudi, Amin Mohaghegh, Stephen More, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT)Best Paper AwardVideo

2022

FPGA-Based AI Smart NICs for Scalable Distributed AI Training Systems

– Rui Ma, Evangelos Georganas, Alexander Heinecke, Sergey Gribok, Andrew Boutros, and Eriko Nurvitadhi IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)

RAD-Sim: Rapid Architecture Exploration for Novel Reconfigurable Acceleration Devices

– Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Video

Architecture and Application Co-Design for Beyond-FPGA Reconfigurable Acceleration Devices

– Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, and Vaughn Betz IEEE Access

2021

Compute-Capable Block RAMs for Efficient Deep Learning Acceleration on FPGAs

– Xiaowei Wang, Vidushi Goyal, Jiecao Yu, Valeria Bertacco, Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Charles Augustine, Ravi Iyer, and Reetuparna Das IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)

FPGA Architecture: Principles and Progression

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– Andrew Boutros, and Vaughn Betz IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M)

End-to-End FPGA-Based Object Detection using Pipelined CNN and Non-Maximum Suppression

– Anupreetham, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mathew Hall, Andrew Boutros, Ajay Kuzhively, Abinash Mohanty, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Vaughn Betz, Yu Cao, and Jae-Sun Seo IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Best Paper Nomination

Koios: A Deep Learning Benchmark Suite for FPGA Architecture and CAD Research

– Aman Arora, Andrew Boutros, Daniel Rauch, Aishwarya Rajen, Aatman Borda, Seyed Alireza Damghani, Samidh Mehta, Sangram Kate, Pragnesh Patel, Kenneth B. Kent, Vaughn Betz, and Lizy K. John IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)FPL 2025 Community Award

Specializing for Efficiency: Customizing AI Inference Processors on FPGAs

– Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)Best Paper AwardVideo

Recurrent Neural Networks with Column-Wise Matrix-Vector Multiplication on FPGAs

– Zhiqiang Que, Hiroki Nakahara, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Andrew Boutros, Hongxiang Fan, Chenglong Zeng, Jiuxi Meng, Kuen Hung Tsoi, Xinyu Niu, and Wayne Luk IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI)

2020

FPGA Logic Block Architectures for Efficient Deep Learning Inference

– Mohamed Eldafrawy, Andrew Boutros, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, and Vaughn Betz ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)

Beyond Peak Performance: Comparing the Real Performance of AI-Optimized FPGAs and GPUs

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– Andrew Boutros, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Rui Ma, Sergey Gribok, Zhipeng Zhao, James C. Hoe, Vaughn Betz, and Martin Langhammer IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)Featured on Intel’s Webpage & Whitepaper

Neighbors From Hell: Voltage Attacks Against Deep Learning Accelerators on Multi-Tenant FPGAs

– Andrew Boutros, Mathew Hall, Nicolas Papernot, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)Best Paper NominationVideo

2019

Math Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: Logic Block Architectures to Enhance Low-Precision Multiply-Accumulate on FPGAs

– Andrew Boutros, Mohamed Eldafrawy, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, and Vaughn Betz ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)

Why Compete When You Can Work Together: FPGA-ASIC Integration for Persistent RNNs

– Eriko Nurvitadhi, Dongup Kwon, Ali Jafari, Andrew Boutros, Jaewoong Sim, Phillip Tomson, Huseyin Sumbul, Gregory Chen, Phil Knag, Raghavan Kumar, Ram Krishnamurthy, Sergey Gribok, Bogdan Pasca, Martin Langhammer, Debbie Marr, and Aravind Dasu IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)

Scalable Low-Latency Persistent Neural Machine Translation on CPU Server with Multiple FPGAs

– Eriko Nurvitadhi, Andrew Boutros, Prerna Budhkar, Ali Jafari, Dongup Kwon, David Sheffield, Abirami Prabhakaran, Karthik Gururaj, Pranavi Appana, and Mishali Naik IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)

2018

Embracing Diversity: Enhanced DSP Blocks for Low-Precision Deep Learning on FPGAs

– Andrew Boutros, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, and Vaughn Betz IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)Best Paper Award

You Cannot Improve What You Do Not Measure: FPGA vs. ASIC Efficiency Gaps for Convolutional Neural Network Inference

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– Andrew Boutros, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, and Vaughn Betz ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)

2017

HW/SW Co-Design of The HOG Algorithm on a Xilinx Zynq SoC

– Jens Rettkowski, Andrew Boutros, and Diana Göhringer Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

Build Fast, Trade Fast: FPGA-Based High-Frequency Trading Using High-Level Synthesis

– Andrew Boutros, Brett Grady, Mustafa Abbas, and Paul Chow IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig)

Hardware Acceleration of Novel Chaos-Based Image Encryption for IoT Applications

– Andrew Boutros, Salma Hesham, Barbara Georgey, and Mohamed A. Abd El Ghany IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)

2015

Real-Time Pedestrian Detection on a Xilinx Zynq Using The HOG Algorithm

– Jens Rettkowski, Andrew Boutros, and Diana Göhringer IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig)Best Paper Award