March 11, 2026
Open Source Hardware
Our vision is to create a path that allows researchers to prototype their ideas without worrying about all of the intricacies of I/O, packaging, PC board design and FPGA coding. Moreover, we provide a polymorphic library for SystemVerilog called BaseJump STL.
Bitcoin Mining
Taylor wrote the first academic paper on Bitcoin mining chips and is the world’s foremost academic expert.
Dark Silicon
Taylor co-authored the earliest published research on dark silicon, including a paper that derives the utilization wall that causes dark silicon, and a prototype massively specialized processor called GreenDroid. I also wrote a paper that establishes the definitive taxonomy, the Four Horsemen, for the semiconductor industry’s approaches to dealing with the problem, and a follow-on paper on the Landscape of the Dark…
Heterogeneous Tiled Microprocessors
Taylor was lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor, one of the earliest multicore processors, which was commercialized into the Tilera TILE64 architecture. Recently, in 2017, Intel Skylake SP has adopted our scalable mesh of cores architecture that we proposed.
Develop and test a practical stroke model in non-human primates
Non-human primate (NHP) models are critical for preclinical, translational stroke studies to address potential discrepancies between rodent and human studies. Due to the scarcity of stroke studies in NHPs, few experimental models have been developed. The goal of this project is to develop and test practical model of ischemic stroke in these animals.
Studying the underlying mechanisms of post-stroke cognitive impairment
Post-stroke cognitive impairment in various domains from attention deficits to memory problems are very common in stroke victims. The goal of this project is to investigate cortical and hippocampal oscillations following cortical stroke in rats to understand the underlying neural mechanisms.
Stroke neurorehabilitation using optogenetic stimulation in non-human primates
The goal of this project is to reveal underlying mechanisms of brain plasticity that lead to functional recovery from stroke, which can provide us with vital insight to develop stimulation-based therapies not only for stroke but also for a broad range of neurological disorders.
14/16nm ASIC Design
Taylor and team recently designed the Tiered Accelerator Fabric architecture, and with collaborators taped out a 511-core RISC-V implementation in TSMC 16 nm, including 5 Linux-capable RISC-V cores, 496-core RISC-V manycore, and a binarized neural network.
July 18, 2016
Submodularity for Speech and Language Applications
This project explores the use of submodularity for optimizing applications in speech and language processing, in particular machine translation. Submodular function optimization is used to select the best possible training sets for different types of translation models, tuning sets, language model data and sparse feature sets.
Language Grounding by Understanding and Generating Narratives for Dynamic Environments
Language is given meaning through its correspondence with a world representation. This correspondence can be at multiple levels of granularity or resolutions. In this project, we study multi-resolution language grounding in multiple domains of sport commentaries, geometry questions and images. This project aims at building a framework to learn to understand and generate narratives for…
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