Marco Donato

Assistant Professor, ECE, Tufts University

Joined

January 2026

Names

Marco Donato (Preferred)

Emails

****@tufts.edu (Confirmed)

****@brown.edu

****@seas.harvard.edu

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

ECE, Tufts University (tufts.edu)

2020 – Present

Postdoc

SEAS, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (seas.harvard.edu)

2017 – 2020

PhD student

School of Engineering, Brown University (brown.edu)

2011 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Gu-Yeon Wei

2017 – 2020

Postdoc Advisor

David Brooks

2017 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Ruth Bahar

2011 – 2016

Expertise

ML Hardware

Present

Non-volatile memories

Present

Edge AI

Present

Multi-task learning

Present

Reliability

Present

Publications

PIGen: Accelerating ReRAM Co-Design via Generative Physics-Informed Modeling
Zihan Zhang, Marco Donato
- ICCAD 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Heterogeneous Memory Integration and Optimization for Energy-Efficient Multi-Task NLP Edge Inference
Zirui Fu, Aleksandre Avaliani, Marco Donato
- ISLPED 2024
- Readers: Everyone
A 16-nm SoC for Noise-Robust Speech and NLP Edge AI Inference With Bayesian Sound Source Separation and Attention-Based DNNs
Thierry Tambe, En-Yu Yang, Glenn G. Ko, Yuji Chai, Coleman Hooper, Marco Donato, Paul N. Whatmough, Alexander M. Rush, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Energy-efficient Task Adaptation for NLP Edge Inference Leveraging Heterogeneous Memory Architectures
Zirui Fu, Aleksandre Avaliani, Marco Donato
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
SMIV: A 16-nm 25-mm² SoC for IoT With Arm Cortex-A53, eFPGA, and Coherent Accelerators
Sae Kyu Lee, Paul N. Whatmough, Marco Donato, Glenn G. Ko, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 2022
- Readers: Everyone
NVMExplorer: A Framework for Cross-Stack Comparisons of Embedded Non-Volatile Memories
Lillian Pentecost, Alexander Hankin, Marco Donato, Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- HPCA 2022
- Readers: Everyone
9.8 A 25mm2 SoC for IoT Devices with 18ms Noise-Robust Speech-to-Text Latency via Bayesian Speech Denoising and Attention-Based Sequence-to-Sequence DNN Speech Recognition in 16nm FinFET
Thierry Tambe, En-Yu Yang, Glenn G. Ko, Yuji Chai, Coleman Hooper, Marco Donato, Paul N. Whatmough, Alexander M. Rush, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- ISSCC 2021
- Readers: Everyone
SM6: A 16nm System-on-Chip for Accurate and Noise-Robust Attention-Based NLP Applications : The 33rd Hot Chips Symposium - August 22-24, 2021
Thierry Tambe, En-Yu Yang, Glenn G. Ko, Yuji Chai, Coleman Hooper, Marco Donato, Paul N. Whatmough, Alexander M. Rush, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- HCS 2021
- Readers: Everyone
EdgeBERT: Sentence-Level Energy Optimizations for Latency-Aware Multi-Task NLP Inference
Thierry Tambe, Coleman Hooper, Lillian Pentecost, Tianyu Jia, En-Yu Yang, Marco Donato, Victor Sanh, Paul N. Whatmough, Alexander M. Rush, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- MICRO 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Application-driven Design Exploration for Dense Ferroelectric Embedded Non-volatile Memories
Mohammad Mehdi Sharifi, Lillian Pentecost, Ramin Rajaei, Arman Kazemi, Qiuwen Lou, Gu-Yeon Wei, David M. Brooks, Kai Ni, X. Sharon Hu, Michael T. Niemier, Marco Donato
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- ISLPED 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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