Younghyun Cho's Students
Systems and Performance Research Lab at Santa Clara University
Current Students
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Vedica Rao (Ph.D., Fall 2024 - present) — performance tuning, performance variability
- Papers: [PACT'26]
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Chianing Wang (Ph.D., industrial-track, Fall 2024 - present) — performance modeling, AI infrastructure
- Papers: [MLArchSys'25], [SFWM'26]
- Ray Hu (Ph.D., Fall 2026 - present) — quantum machine learning, quantum circuit simulation
- Shreyas Raghunath (M.S.) — quantum circuit simulation
- Alexander Anokhin (B.S.) — HW design space exploration, robotics AI system
- Papers: [MLArchSys'26]
- Shivam Maji (B.S.) — robotics AI system
Former Students
- M.S. with thesis
- Gaurav Punjabi, 2024-2025
- Thesis: Efficient Inference Of Performance Models in OpenMP Applications (Summer 2025)
- First position: Apple
- Kimsong Lor, 2023-2025
- Thesis: GBOTuner: Autotuning of OpenMP Parallel Codes with Bayesian Optimization and Code Representation Transfer Learning (Spring 2025)
- First position: Apple
- Gaurav Punjabi, 2024-2025
- M.S. students (without thesis)
- Hudson Strauss, 2026
- Lauren Hu, 2025
- Rohit Roy Chowdhury, 2025
- Ananya Pagadala, 2025
- Vedica Rao, 2024 (re-joined the lab as a Ph.D. student)
- Undergraduate students
- Saeyeon Kim, 2023-2026
- Co-authored [PACT'26]
- First position: AMD
- Anthony Bryson, 2023-2024
- Logan Calder, 2023-2024
- Saeyeon Kim, 2023-2026
Former Visitors
- Floris-Jan Willemsen (Fall 2025) (from the Netherlands eScience Center and Leiden University)
Advised undergraduate senior design projects
As the sole advisor:
- Implementation of a Mixed Precision Iterative Solver on an AMD APU (AY 2025-26)
- Applied Auto-tuning on LoRA Hyperparameters (AY 2023-24)
- General Purpose Tuning Data Visualization (AY 2023-24)
As a co-advisor:
- Open Source ARM Cortex-M0 Processor (AY 2025-26) (co-advised with Dr. Andy Wolfe)
- Secure Your Hardware with Randomization and Redundancy (AY 2024-25) (co-advised with Dr. Hoeseok Yang)
Photos
- SC 2024: Saeyeon (left), Vedica (right)
- NVIDIA visit: Kimsong, Vedica, Saeyeon, Floris-Jan, Younghyun, Gaurav (from left to right)
- IPDPS 2024 in San Francisco: Gaurav, Kimsong, Vedica, Younghyun (from left to right)
