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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895)

Bio

Yufei Ding joined the Department of Computer Science (with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering), University of California at Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in Nov 2017. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and B.S. and M.S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China and the College of William and Mary, respectively. Her research interests lie in the broad fields of domain-specific language design, architecture and compiler optimization, and hardware acceleration. Her current research focuses on building high- performance, energy-efficient, and high-fidelity programming frameworks for emerging technologies such as quantum computing, machine learning, and deep learning. She was the NCSU Computer Science Outstanding Research Award in 2016 and Computer Science Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2018. She is also a recipient of the 2019 IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.

Research

My research interests lie in the broad fields of domain-specific language design, architecture and compiler optimization, and hardware acceleration (e.g., FPGAs, GPUs). Our current research focuses on building a high-performance, energy efficient, and high-fidelity programming framework for emerging technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, and quantum computing.

Openings

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students, especially in the direction of quantum computing.

News

• IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.

• co-PI @ NSF “CC* Compute: A high-performance GPU cluster for accelerated research”.

• PI @ Alibaba Gift Money for "Domain Specific Accelerator Research".

• Web Chair @ PPoPP 2020.

• Program Committee @ PPoPP 2020.

• Program Committee @ PLDI 2020.

• Program Committee @ ASPLOS 2020.

• Program Committee @ LCPC 2019.

• Reviewer @ ICML 2019, UAI 2019, NeurIPS 2019.

• Program Committee @ ISMM 2019.

• NVIDIA GPU Grant

• Co-chair @ ACM SRC, ASPLOS 2019.

• External Review Committee @ PLDI 2019.

• Program Committee @ IPDPS 2019.

• Program Committee @ OOPSLA 2019.

• Program Committee @ NPC 2019.

• Program Committee @ CGO 2019.

• Program Committee @ ASPLOS 2019.

• Program Committee @ USENIX ATC 2018.

• Co-chair @ ACM SRC and Posters, ASPLOS 2018.

Group Members

• Ph.D.: Boyuan Feng, Yuke Wang, Gushu Li*, Liu Liu*, Abanti Basak*, Anbang Wu*, Pengfei Xu*, Guyue Huang*.

  (* co-advised with Dr. Yuan Xie)

• M.S.: Kun Wan (Adobe), Andrew Huang (Google)

• Undergraduates: Shu Yang, Xingxing Geng, Annan Zhan

• Visiting students: Lingwei Xie, Xiaolei Liu, Fei Shi

Teaching

2020 Fall CS293S Advanced Compiler Technology

2020 Winter CS293S Advanced Compiler Technology

2019 Fall CS160 Translation of Programming Languages

2019 Spring CS160 Translation of Programming Languages

2019 Winter CS165B Machine Learning

2018 Fall CS293S Advanced Compiler Technology

CV

My [ CV ] can be found here.

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