Recognition

Honors & Awards

Professional, academic, and research recognition across computer architecture, reliable systems, and engineering.

Complete record

Google Feat of Engineering

For my key design contributions to the TPUv4 and TPUv4i memory system architecture and on-chip interconnect (OCI).

ESWEEK Best Paper Award

For my CASES paper titled "Low-Cost Memory Fault Tolerance for IoT Devices."

UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

This campus-wide fellowship is open to all PhD candidates nearing the completion of their dissertation. The award includes a stipend up to $20,000 over three academic quarters as well as potentially-waived tuition and fees. Received during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF)

Won this fellowship for my proposal titled "Software-Defined Error-Correcting Codes," which was co-authored with Clayton Schoeny. This prestigious fellowship received 129 applications that year from top-18 US universities, from which 34 finalists (26.35%) and eight winners (6.2%) were selected. The award included $100,000 to support both of us for one academic year and also included mentorship by Qualcomm researchers and engineers. Department news article here.

SELSE Best Paper Award

For my SELSE paper titled "Software-Defined Error-Correcting Codes."

UCLA Electrical Engineering Outstanding Master's Research in Circuits and Embedded Systems Award

Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

UCLA Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Department Fellowship