Shibo Chen

Senior Architecture Engineer at Tenstorrent Inc.

About me

Shibo Chen is a senior architecture engineer at Tenstorrent. He received his Doctoral degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2025.

Education

2019 - 2025 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering
• GPA: 3.91
• Dissrtation Thesis: Streamlining High-Performance Heterogeneous Hardware Design

2022 - 2025 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Graduate Certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

2016 - 2019 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with High Distinction
• GPA: 3.92

Industry Experience

May 2025 - Now Tenstorrent Inc., Santa Clara, CA

• Senior Architecture Engineer

May 2023 - August 2023 Tenstorrent Inc., Santa Clara, CA

• Platform Architecture Intern
• Estimated traffic on/off the chip for power analysis.
• Proposed and studied architecture changes that boost both multi-core performance and power efficiency.
• Drafted testplan for cache and fabric verification.
• Developed workflow for multi-core. multi-chiplet fabric traffic testing and simulation.
• Configured Arteris IP for non-conherent traffic.

May 2022 - Augusture 2022 Tenstorrent Inc., Santa Clara, CA

• Platform Architect Intern
• Participated in the architectural design of a modern server-level RISC-V multicore CPU.
• Developed in-house reconfigurable fabric performance model for heterogeneous multicore systems.
• Designed configuration semantics to represent a wide range of farbric design options.

Publications

2025 Zipper: Latency-Tolerant Optimizations for High-Performance Buses

• To Appear in The Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2025 (ASP-DAC’25)
• S. Chen, H. Zhang, T. Austin.

2023 Security Verification of Low-Trust Architectures

• In Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2023 (CCS’23). Distinguished Paper Award
• Q. Tan*, Y. Fisseha*, S. Chen*, L. Biernacki, J.B. Jeannin, S. Malik, T. Austin.
• * These individuals contributed equally to the work.

2022 Twine A Chisel Extension for Component-Level Heterogeneous Design

• In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference 2022 (DATE’22, 25% Acceptance Rate)
• S. Chen, J. Fisseha, J.B. Jeannin, T. Austin.

2019 Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture Based on Ensembles of Moving Target Defenses with Churn

• In Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS ‘19).
• M. Gallagher, L. Biernacki, S. Chen, Z. Aweke, S. Yitbarek, M. Aga, A. Harris, Z. Xu, B. Kasikci, V. Bertacco, S. Malik, M. Tiwari, T. Austin.

2018 CommPact: Evaluating the Feasibility of Autonomous Vehicle Contracts

• In Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2018 (VNC ‘18).
• J. Erickson, S. Chen, M. Savich, S. Hu, M. Mao.

Last updated: May 2025