CSE 240D: Accelerator Design for Deep Learning (Winter 2021)

Instructor: Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Email: hadi [AT] eng [DOT] ucsd [DOT] edu

Office: CSE 3228

TA:

Joon Kim: jkkim [AT] eng [DOT] ucsd [DOT] edu

Office hours: Thursdays 8-9AM, Zoom

Course Participation

By 9pm on the night before the class, everyone must submit one brief question or comment about each of the assigned readings. These will be submitted on gradescope (Entry code: GEPE4K).

The comments/questions can be of the following form but you are not limited to this list:

Possible new ideas how to extend the paper
Critical questions about the methodologies and conclusions in the paper
Comments about the relation of the reading to previous readings
Why the paper is important and why it should be cited
Summary of the most important things you learned from the paper
The main insights from the paper

Furthermore, you must actively participate in class discussions for papers that you do not present. You must say something about every paper we discuss! Attendance is mandatory unless you get explicit permission from the instructor to be absent.