CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025 - Present
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021 - 2025
  • Dean’s List, 2024
• B.Eng. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2021 - 2025
  • Excellence Studying Scholarship, 2021 & 2022 & 2024

Experience

• August 2025 - Present: Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Advised by Prof. Sasa Misailovic
• September 2023 - May 2025: Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Advised by Prof. Sasa Misailovic & Prof. Gagandeep Singh
• May 2023 – September 2023: Research Assistant, ZJU-UIUC Institute
  • Advised by Prof. Aili Wang

Publications

• Nautilus: Auto-Scheduling Tensor Compiler for Advanced Fusion in Asynchronous and Pipelined GPU Kernels
  Yifan Zhao, Yuchen Yang, Matei Budiu, Minsoo Kim, Sasa Misailovic
  Submitted to OSDI 2026

• ARQ: A Mixed-Precision Quantization Framework for Accurate and Certifiably Robust DNNs
  Yuchen Yang, Yifan Zhao, Shubham Ugare, Gagandeep Singh, Sasa Misailovic
  Submitted to ISSTA 2026
  [Paper]

• NeuBridge: Bridging Quantized Activations and Spiking Neurons for ANN-SNN Conversion
  Yuchen Yang, Jingcheng Liu, Chengting Yu, Chengyi Yang, Gaoang Wang, Aili Wang
  Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2025, 5:024018
  [Paper]