Seventy-four innovative early-career engineers have been chosen to participate in the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2026 Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Through the early-career grant, Peipei Zhou will advance the scalable, verifiable co-design of heterogeneous reconfigurable computing systems, enabling domain experts to efficiently build next-generation customized AI and data-intensive applications, such as autonomous physical systems, adaptive intelligent agents, and advanced healthcare technologies.

Assistant Professor Peipei Zhou's 2016 paper was honored with the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.

Brown’s newest Assistant Professor of Engineering Peipei Zhou bridges the gap between computer science and engineering, seamlessly flowing between the physical hardware/operating system, the abstraction/optimization interface, and the software output.