Publications

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Name "Tergel Molom-Ochir" is shown in bold.

Selected First-Author Publications

Associative memory and in-memory hardware.

  1. T. Molom-Ochir, B. Morris, M. Horton, P. Liu, C. Wei, C. Guo, D. Fan, S. Wang, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "CAMformer: Associative Memory is All You Need."
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2026.
    [arXiv]

  2. T. Molom-Ochir, B. Taylor, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "Advancements in Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) Circuits: State-of-the-Art, Applications, and Future Directions in the AI Domain."
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2025.

  3. T. Molom-Ochir, B. Taylor, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "MonoSparse-CAM: Efficient Tree Model Processing via Monotonicity and Sparsity in CAMs."
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025.
    [arXiv]

  4. T. Molom-Ochir, N. Saxena, J. Kim, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, M. Pajic, H. Li.
    "Efficient Neuro-Symbolic Policy using In-Memory Computing."
    International Conference on Neuro-Symbolic Systems, 2025.

Collaborative Publications

Hardware and in-memory computing.

  1. V. Ravichandran, Y. Huang, B. Flannery, T. Molom-Ochir, T. Maurer, S. Asapu, A. Abdel-Maksoud, N. Heermance, R. Yoo, J. Tackie, A. Guo, J. Yang, Q. Xia.
    "Memristive Cellular Neural Networks for Ultrafast In-Pixel Computing."
    Nature Electronics, 2026.

  2. T. Kawakami, T. Molom-Ochir, X. Zhuang, J. Yang, T. Roy, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "DirectGeMM: Eliminating the GeMV Bottleneck in Analog In-Memory Computing."
    IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2026.

  3. X. Yang, P. Chen, T. Molom-Ochir, Y. Chen.
    "End-to-End Transformer Acceleration Through Processing-in-Memory Architectures."
    37th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), 2025.
    [arXiv]

  4. Y. Chen, C. Guo, Y. He, M. Ma, T. Molom-Ochir, N. Ramos, H. Shan, C. Wei, H. Li.
    "Circuits to Systems: Co-Designing Efficient AI Hardware."
    IEEE Design & Test, 2025.

  5. B. Morris, T. Molom-Ochir, B. Sweezy, C. Zhou, A. Jones, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "NP-CAM: Efficient and Scalable DNA Classification using NoC-Partitioned CAM Architectures."
    32nd IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025.

  6. M. Horton, T. Molom-Ochir, P. Liu, B. Gopal, C. Wei, C. Guo, B. Taylor, D. Fan, S. Wang, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "Hamming Attention Distillation: Binarizing Keys and Queries for Efficient Long-Context Transformers."
    arXiv, 2025.
    [arXiv]

  7. C. Guo, F. Cheng, Z. Du, J. Kiessling, J. Ku, S. Li, Z. Li, M. Ma, T. Molom-Ochir, B. Morris, H. Shan, J. Sun, Y. Wang, C. Wei, X. Wu, Y. Wu, H. F. Yang, J. Zhang, J. Zhang, Q. Zheng, G. Zhou, H. Li, Y. Chen.
    "A Survey: Collaborative Hardware and Software Design in the Era of Large Language Models."
    IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2024.
    [arXiv]

Patents

  • T. Molom-Ochir, A. Natarajan.
    "In-Memory Accelerator for Monte Carlo Tree Search."
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IDF-178803 (Patent Review Committee, October 2025).

Earlier Work

  1. P. M. Mammen, C. Zakaria, T. Molom-Ochir, A. Trivedi, P. Shenoy, R. Balan. "WiSleep: Scalable Sleep Monitoring and Analytics Using Passive WiFi Sensing." ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2024. [arXiv]

  2. T. Molom-Ochir, R. J. Twiggs, T. G. Pannuti. "MARCo: Solar Powered Autonomous Robotic Unmanned Surface Vehicle." Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR), 2021.

  3. T. Molom-Ochir, R. Shenoy. "Energy and Cost Considerations for GPU Accelerated AI Inference Workloads." IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), 2021.

  4. W. A. Hanafy, T. Molom-Ochir, R. Shenoy. "Design Considerations for Energy-efficient Inference on Edge Devices." 12th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2021.

  5. E. Cecchet, A. Acharya, T. Molom-Ochir, A. Trivedi, P. Shenoy. "WiFiMon: A Mobility Analytics Platform for Building Occupancy Monitoring and Contact Tracing Using WiFi Sensing." 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2020. [Best Poster Award]