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learned a great deal about the advancement in machine learning and computer vision
from them.
2.
On High-Level Synthesis and Centrifuge: Christopher Yarp, Sagar Karandikar, Nathan
Pemberton, Benjamin Brock, Liang Ma, Guohao Dai, Robert Quitt, Shaoyi Cheng,
Tan Nguyen, Arya Reais-Parsi. They showed their exceptional engineering skills and
expertise in subjects including HLS, hardware, systems, and compilers.
3.
On Machine Learning for Hardware and AutoPhase: Ameer Haj-Ali, William Moses,
John Xiang, Keertana Settaluri, Hasan Genc. It was a great pleasure exploring new
topics with these creative and productive individuals.
4.
On integer linear programming and CoSA Scheduling: Grace Dinh, Josh Kang, Thomas
Norell, Charles Hong. I learned many optimization techniques from them.
My growth as a graduate student has been dependent on many of my colleagues who
generously share their compassion and technical expertise. I want to thank James Martin,
Angie Wang, David Biancolin, Howard Mao, Albert Magyar, Lisa Wu, Seah Kim, Adam
Izraelevitz, Dayeol Lee, Yang You, Marquita Ellis, Alon Amid, Albert Ou, Colin Schmidt,
Jerry Zhao, Gilbert Bernstein, and many others, for creating an inclusive lab and department
environment. I would like to express my gratitude to Kosta Ilov, who was always there to
help me with various infrastructure issues.
Outside of research, I gained tremendous support from my friends at Berkeley. I want to
thank Cecilia Zhang, Xin Wang, Tianjun Zhang, Zhewei Yao, Zixi Hu, Nathan Pemberton,
Ameer Haj-Ali, Sagar Karandikar, Paras Jain, Biye Jiang, Isla Yang, Alice Ye, Cindy Chen,
Jessica Zhou, Daniel Seita, Michael Chang, and Danyang Zhuo. I appreciate their company
in various activities, including the numerous boba trips. I also gain lots of care and love from
my IGSM friends: Sara Hong, Wenxia Lin, Jenny Chung, Grace Borja, and many others.
I’d also like to thank my friends from the University of Toronto: Angela Xu, Anqi Duan,
Joshua Chou, Chain Zhang, Jack Luo, Suya Liu, Jenny Ren, Jacky Liu, Lucia Xu, Dean
Xu, Xiang Chen. They showed extraordinary kindness to me, and I always think of them as
family. In addition, I want to thank my undergraduate research group, led by Prof. Jason
Anderson, for offering research opportunities for undergraduate students and being incredibly
encouraging and supportive to us.
I am extremely thankful to have the opportunity to interact with many extraordinary
individuals and form a community together. I might not have mentioned all of you here,
but you have made my journey full of fun and inspired me in various ways. Through you, I
learned that we are all connected people and that something we do will affect others. Moving
forward, I hope I could be like you and do my little things to enlighten the days of others.
Lastly, I cannot thank my family enough for their unceasing support and inspiration from
the beginning, in ways and depths that no words can express. They have taught me to work
hard, persevere, and seek truth in all circumstances.