NAME

aou — Albert Ou

Graduate Student Researcher

Office:

585 Soda Hall
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

E-mail:

aou '\x40' eecs.berkeley.edu

RESEARCH

I am a ~4th-year Ph.D student in the computer architecture group, advised by Krste Asanović. My primary research interests are data-parallel accelerator architectures and VLSI design. I currently work in the ADEPT Lab; previously, I was part of the ASPIRE Lab (2013–2017) and the ParLab (2012).

Publications

• Chen Sun, Mark T. Wade, Yunsup Lee, Jason S. Orcutt, Luca Alloatti, Michael Georgas, Andrew Waterman, Jeffrey M. Shainline, Rimas Avižienis, Sen Lin, Benjamin Moss, Rajesh Kumar, Fabio Pavanello, Amir H. Atabaki, Henry Cook, Albert J. Ou, Jonathan Leu, Yu-Hsin Chen, Krste Asanović, Rajeev J. Ram, Milos A. Popovic, and Vladimir Marko Stojanovic, Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light, Nature, 7581, 528, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16454, 534–538, December 2015.
• Albert Ou, Quan Nguyen, Yunsup Lee, and Krste Asanović, A Case for MVPs: Mixed-Precision Vector Processors, 2nd International Workshop on Parallelism in Mobile Platforms (PRISM-2) at the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-41), http://prism.sejong.ac.kr/download/PRISM2_download/3_AlbertOu_paper.pdf, Minneapolis, MN, June 2014.

Thesis

• Albert Ou, Mixed-Precision Vector Processors, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-265, https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-265.html, December 2015, MS Thesis.

Technical Reports

• Krste Asanović, Rimas Avižienis, Jonathan Bachrach, Scott Beamer, David Biancolin, Christopher Celio, Henry Cook, Daniel Dabbelt, John Hauser, Adam Izraelevitz, Sagar Karandikar, Ben Keller, Donggyu Kim, John Koenig, Yunsup Lee, Eric Love, Martin Maas, Albert Magyar, Howard Mao, Miquel Moreto, Albert Ou, David A. Patterson, Brian Richards, Colin Schmidt, Stephen Twigg, Huy Vo, and Andrew Waterman, The Rocket Chip Generator, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2016-17, https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-17.html, April 2016.
• Yunsup Lee, Colin Schmidt, Sagar Karandikar, Daniel Dabbelt, Albert Ou, and Krste Asanović, Hwacha Preliminary Evaluation Results, Version 3.8.1, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-264, https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-264.html, December 2015.
• Yunsup Lee, Albert Ou, Colin Schmidt, Sagar Karandikar, Howard Mao, and Krste Asanović, The Hwacha Microarchitecture Manual, Version 3.8.1, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-263, https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-263.html, December 2015.
• Yunsup Lee, Colin Schmidt, Albert Ou, Andrew Waterman, and Krste Asanović, The Hwacha Vector-Fetch Architecture Manual, Version 3.8.1, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2015-262, https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-262.html, December 2015.

RISC-V

As an undergraduate, I ported the Linux kernel in collaboration with qmn to the then-nascent RISC-V instruction set architecture, beginning in June 2012. The port was finally accepted into mainline in November 2017 for the 4.15 release, and I continue to serve as the RISC-V Linux co-maintainer. For historical interest, the original commit history predating the merge has been preserved in the riscv-linux archive.