Yangchun Luo

• 4-192 EE/CSci Building
  200 Union Street SE
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  United States of America
• WWW Page: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~yluo
• Email: yluo atsign cs.umn.edu
• Office Room: 6-248 EE/CSci Building
• Office Phone: +1 (612) 626-9742

Graduate Period

• Student Travel Grants for PACT-18, Sept 2009
• Student Travel Grants for ISCA-36, Jun 2009
• Best Paper Award of XXVI IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct 2008
• Nominee for IBM PhD Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, UMN, Oct 2008
• Nominee for Graduate Fellowship upon Admission at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Jan 2007

Undergraduate Period (Selected)

• Silver Award of the 2nd Open Source Software Contest of China, 2006
• Meritorious Winner of the COMAP Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (ICM), 2006
• Third Prize of the 2nd "IBM" Cup Campus Innovation Contest in China, 2005
• Fuji-Xerox Scholarship, 2005

• Advisor: Antonia Zhai
• Group: Architectures, Compiler Optimization, and Embedded Systems

Publications:

• X. Zhuang, A. Eichenberger, Y. Luo, K. O'Brien and K. O'Brien. Exploiting Parallelism with Dependence-Aware Scheduling. The 18th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, September 2009. Acceptance Rate: 35/188 (18%)
• Y. Luo, V. Packirisamy, N. Mungre, A. Tarkas, W. Hsu and A. Zhai. Dynamic Performance Tuning for Speculative Threads. The 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Austin, Texas, USA, June 2009. Acceptance Rate: 43/210 (20%)
• (Best Paper Award) V. Packirisamy, Y. Luo, W. Hung, A. Zhai, and P. Yew. Efficiency of Thread-Level Speculation in SMT and CMP Architectures - Performance, Power and Thermal Perspective. XXVI IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Design (ICCD), Lake Tahoe, California, USA, October 2008. Acceptance Rate: 34%

Patent(s):

• X. Zhuang, A. Eichenberger, Y. Luo, K. O'Brian and K. O'Brian. Methods for Parallelization of Irregular Reductions via Parallel Building and Exploitation of Conflict-Free Units of Work at Runtime. Status: Filed Internally

Formal Presentations:

• (Poster) Y.Luo, A. Zhai, et al. Dynamic Performance Tuning for Speculative Threads. The 7th Biennial Computer Science Open House, Oct 2009. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  
• (Conference) Y. Luo, A. Zhai, et al. Dynamic Performance Tuning for Speculative Threads. The 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Jun 2009. (Austin, Texas)
  Presentation Slides: (PDF) (PowerPoint Show)
  
• (Poster) Y. Luo, X. Zhuang, et al. Dependence-Aware Scheduling Using Assistant Threads. IBM Summer Intern Poster Session, Aug 2008. (IBM T.J. Watson Yorktown Site, NY) --UNDISCLOSED--
  
• (Poster) A. Zhai, S. Wang, et al. Compiler Optimization for Parallelizing General-Purpose Applications under Thread-Level Speculation. 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Feb 2008. (Salt Lake City, UT)
  

May - Aug 2008:

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab Yorktown Site. Advanced Compiler Technology Team, under Kathryn O'Brien.
• Project: Dependence-Aware Scheduling Using Assistant Threads

Fall 2008

CSci 2021: Machine Architecture and Organization

• Instructor: Antonia Zhai
• Office Hour: 2-209 EE/CSci
  M 3:30-4:30pm
• Recitation Session:
  Th, 09:05AM-09:55AM, 211 Akerman Hall
  Th, 10:10AM-11:00AM, 215 Akerman Hall
  Th, 11:15AM-12:05PM, 120 Amundson Hall

Fall 2007

CSci 4011: Formal Languages and Automata Theory

• Instructor: Gopalan Nadathur
• Office Hour: 2-209 EE/CSci
  M 12:00pm-1:00pm
  W 5:00pm-6:00pm,
• Dicussion Session:
  W 2:30pm-3:20pm 3-115 EE/CSci
  W 3:35pm-4:25pm 110 Ford Hall

Spring 2009

• MATH 5707: Graph Theory and Non-enumerative Combinatorics
  Instructor: Drew Armstrong
  Final Grade: A-
• CSCI 5161: Introduction to Compilers
  Instructor: Wei-Chung Hsu
  Final Grade: A

Fall 2008

• EE 5371: Computer Systems Performance Measurement and Evaluation
  Instructor: David J. Lilja
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 5511: Artificial Intelligence I
  Instructor: Maria L. Gini
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 5801: Software Engineering I
  Instructor: Phillip Barry
  Final Grade: A-

Spring 2008

• CSci 8205: Parallel Computer Organization
  Instructor: Antonia Zhai
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 5451: Introduction to Parallel Computing
  Instructor: Karypis, George
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 8980: Special Advanced Topics in Computer Science - Recent Advanced in Computer Architetures
  Instructor: Pen-Chung Yew
  Final Grade: A-
• CSci 8002: Introduction to Research in Computer Science II
  Instructor: Joseph A. Konstan
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 8970: CSCI Colloquium
  Instructor: variety
  Final Grade: S

Fall 2007

• CSci 5204: Advanced Computer Architecture
  Instructor: Antonia Zhai
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 5103: Operating Systems
  Instructor: Anand Tripathi
  Final Grade: A
• CSci 8001: Introduction to Research in Computer Science I
  Instructor: Joseph A. Konstan
  Final Grade: given with CSci 8002