About

I build systems that make heterogeneous hardware easier to program and better at using the performance it already has. My work sits at the intersection of GPU computing, compilers, programming languages, and performance modeling.

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Professor Tyler Sorensen. I am currently a GPU Engineer at Samsung Advanced Computing Lab, working on GPU systems at a high level.

My research focuses on tightly coupled CPU-accelerator systems, especially GPU/FPGA platforms with shared or unified memory. I am interested in compiler and runtime techniques that let programmers express irregular, performance-sensitive workloads without giving up control over the machine.

struct ResearchFocus {
    using System = Heterogeneous<CPU, GPU, FPGA>;
    using Tools = Compiler + Runtime + PerformanceModel;

    void goal(Program p, Hardware h) {
        make_expressive(p);
        make_fast(p, h);
    }
};

For a deeper view of the work, see my research projects, publications, and CV.

Selected Highlights

• Best Paper Award at IISWC 2025 for BetterTogether, an interference-aware framework for fine-grained software pipelining on heterogeneous SoCs.
• Redwood explores flexible and portable acceleration for tree-traversal workloads on shared-memory heterogeneous systems.
• DECADES contributed compiler and runtime support for a reconfigurable heterogeneous many-core research platform.
• CruzWay and related simulation work connected procedural generation, autonomous-vehicle testing, and large-scale system design.

Beyond Research

Before my Ph.D., I built independent games and custom RPG Maker engines. Those projects are still part of how I think about systems: real-time interaction, tooling, scripting, performance constraints, and making complex behavior editable by people. A few of these projects are collected in my game portfolio.

Outside computing, I am a competitive fencing athlete and certified coach. I earned my Instructor at Arms in Foil diploma in 2022 and Provost at Arms in 2024.

Latest News

• Mar 2026 — I successfully defended my dissertation at UC Santa Cruz.
• Oct 2025 — I presented BetterTogether at IISWC'25, where the work received the Best Paper Award.
• Sep 2025 — I joined the Samsung Advanced Computing Lab full-time!
• Aug 2025 — Our work BetterTogether was accepted for publication at IISWC'25.
• Apr 2024 — I started a research internship at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America.
• Jun 2023 — I gave a virtual talk on Redwood at OSCAR’23.
• May 2023 — I advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.
• Apr 2023 — I presented Redwood at ISPASS’23.