I am a 4-th year PhD student at Harvard University. Currently, I am working with Professor David Brooks and Professor Gu-Yeon Wei on design space exploration for specialized architectures.

I am also working on the RoboBees Project, Brain team. We are building accelerator-based system to perform common bee workloads efficiently.

About me

Publication

ISA-Independent Workload Characterization and its Implications for Specialized Architectures,

Yakun Sophia Shao and David Brooks

International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), April 2013. [PDF] [slides]

Posters

ISA-Independent Workload Characterization and its Implications for Specialized Architectures,

Yakun Sophia Shao and David Brooks

Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC) Annual Joint Review, October 2012. [PDF]

Power-Performance Modeling for General-Purpose and Accelerator-Based Systems,

Amanda Chih-Ning Tseng, Yakun Sophia Shao, Svilen Kanev and David Brooks

Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC) Annual Joint Review, November 2011. [PDF]

Accelerator Centric Architecture Design and Analysis,

Yakun Sophia Shao and Judson Porter

RoboBees Symposium, October 2010

Architecture Design for Fine-grained Hardware Acceleration,

Michael Lyons, Judson Porter, Yakun Sophia Shao, Simone Campanoni and David Brooks. [PDF]

Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC) Annual Joint Review, September 2010

Power, Performance and Portability: System Design Considerations for Micro Air Vehicle Applications,

Yakun Sophia Shao, Judson Porter, Michael Lyons, Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks

Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (ACACES), July 2010. [PDF]

Presentation

Accelerator-based RoboBee Brain Architecture,

Judson Porter, Yakun Sophia Shao and Michael Lyons

RoboBees Symposium, October, 2010.

Teaching Experience

CS246 Advanced Computer Architecture, Spring 2013, Teaching Fellow
CS141 Computer Hardware, Fall 2011, Teaching Fellow

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