Professor Jinjun Xiong

Co-Founder, Advisor

Profile
Dr. Jinjun Xiong is co-founder and advisor of StarcoGro and supports the design and development of electrical engineering and computer science aspects of StarcoGro's Agricultural Lighting and Camera System. He also is currently Empire Innovation Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University at Buffalo (UB). He also serves as the Scientific Director and Co-Director for the NSF National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, and Co-Director for the SUNY-UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Prior to that, he was a Senior Researcher and Program Director for AI and Hybrid Clouds Systems at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He co-founded and co-directs the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research. His research interests are on across-stack AI systems research, which include AI applications, algorithms, tooling and computer architectures.  Many of his research results have been adopted in IBM’s products and tools. He published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in top AI conferences and systems conferences. His publication won 8 Best Paper Awards and 8 Nominations for Best Paper Awards. He also won top awards from various international competitions, including the recent champion for the IEEE GraphChallenge on accelerating sparse neural networks, and champions for the DAC'19 Systems Design Contest on designing an object detection neural network for edge FPGA and GPU devices.