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General Information

Full Name Yuan Hsi (Tommy) Chou
Languages English, Mandarin

Education

  • 2019 - Exp. 2024
    PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of British Columbia
    • Supervised by Dr. Tor M. Aamodt
    • Research Focus: Computer / GPU Architecture, Computer Graphics, Ray Tracing
  • 2017 - 2019
    Master of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • GPA: 3.79/4.00
  • 2013 - 2017
    Bachelor of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of Texas, Austin
    • GPA: 3.52/4.00

Experience

  • 2019 - Now
    Graduate Reaserch Assistant
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • May 2021 - Aug 2021
    Rendering Research Intern
    Huawei Research Center, Vancouver, Canada
    • Improved denoiser quality and performance for ambient occlusion, reflection, and caustics effects in a hybrid renderer (rasterization + ray tracing) using Vulkan API
  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
    Intern - Design Technology Platform (DTP)
    TSMC, Taiwan
    • Designed a high performance compact masked AES core in TSMC 22nm technology
    • Performed DPA and CPA side channel attacks with CustomSim simulation
    • Research paper published in VLSI-DAT 2019
  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
    Intern - RF Design Team
    ASE Group, Taiwan
    • Designed low loss baluns through HSPICE and 3D EM simulations
  • May 2015 - Aug 2015
    Intern - Electrical Lab
    ASE Group, Taiwan
    • Developed a trace structure for flip chip packaging that achieves low insertion loss at high frequencies
    • Research paper accepted in IEEE ECTC 2016
  • May 2014 - Aug 2014
    Intern - Stress Thermal Lab
    ASE Group, Taiwan
    • Performed thermal stress tests on packaged chips for estimating device lifetime
    • Assisted with data analysis and making experiment reports

Skills

Programming / Technologies C, C++, Verilog, Python, CUDA, Git, Linux
EDA Tools Cadence Virtuoso, VCS, Innovus, Design Compiler, CustomSim, ModelSim, Altera Quartus
Graphics APIs Vulkan, OpenGL
Architectural Simulators GPGPU-Sim

Publications

  • Davit Grigoryan, Yuan Hsi Chou, Tor M. Aamodt, "Zatel: Sample complexity aware scale model simulation for ray tracing, " IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2024.
  • Lufei Liu, Mohammadreza Saed, Yuan Hsi Chou, Davit Grigoryan, Tyler Nowicki, Tor M. Aamodt, "LumiBench: A Benchmark Suite for Hardware Ray Tracing, " IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2023.
  • Yuan Hsi Chou, Tyler Nowicki, Tor M. Aamodt, "Treelet Prefetching For Ray Tracing, " IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2023.
  • Mohammadreza Saed, Yuan Hsi Chou, Lufei Liu, Tyler Nowicki, Tor M. Aamodt, "Vulkan-Sim: A GPU Architecture Simulator for Ray Tracing, " IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022.
  • Lufei Liu, Wesley Chang, Francois Demoullin, Yuan Hsi Chou, Mohammadreza Saed, David Pankratz, Tyler Nowicki, Tor M. Aamodt, "Intersection Prediction for Accelerated GPU Ray Tracing, " IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021
  • Yuan Hsi Chou, Christopher Ng, Shaylin Cattell, Jeremy Intan, Matthew D. Sinclair, Joseph Devietti, Timothy G. Rogers, Tor M. Aamodt, "Deterministic Atomic Buffering, " IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2020