Hi there! I am Kris, a Ph.D. student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, majoring in computer architecture. I have the pleasure of being advised by Prof. Sophia Yakun Shao and Prof. Christopher W. Fletcher.
My research focuses on enabling efficient AI on resource-constrained SoCs. I am particularly interested in domain-specific acceleration, heterogeneous SoC integration, and hardware-software co-design for cyber-physical systems. Recently, I developed RoSÉ, a unified simulation platform for pre-silicon, full-stack, closed-loop evaluation of robotic SoCs, as part of my work on agile design flows for domain-specific accelerators.
I have over 3 years of industry experience othrough internships and full-time roles, having worked as a Software Engineer at Tesla and a Product Manager at Amazon. Additionally, I have 6+ years of programming experience involving hardware architecture design, large-scale system development, and full-stack software development.
We organized a half-day tutorial on RoSÉ at MICRO!
I was granted with a EECS Departmental Ph.D. Fellowship by University of California, Berkeley!
We won the ISCA Distinguished Artifact Award! (BWRC News)
Our work was accepted by and was presented at ISCA!
I was featured on UC Berkeley EECS Department Medium!
Our work was accepted by and was presented at RoboARCH Workshop at IEEE MICRO!
Our work was presented at ILLIXR Consortium! (Additional info & Recording)
Dima Nikiforov, Kris Shengjun Dong, Chengyi Lux Zhang, Seah Kim, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao
Jingqi Li, Donggun Lee, Jaewon Lee, Kris Shengjun Dong, Somayeh Sojoudi, Claire Tomlin
Charles Hong, Sahil Bhatia, Altan Haan, Kris Shengjun Dong, Dima Nikiforov, Alvin Cheung, Sophia Shao
2nd RoboARCH Workshop, MICRO, IEEE, 2023.
Dima Nikiforov, Kris Shengjun Dong, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao.
1st RoboARCH Workshop Presentation, MICRO, IEEE, 2022.
Dima Nikiforov, Kris Shengjun Dong, Borivoje Nikolic and Yakun Sophia Shao
Oral Presentation, MICRO, IEEE, 2023.
Dima Nikiforov, Kris Shengjun Dong, Borivoje Nikolic and Yakun Sophia Shao.
Oral Presentation, ILLIXR Consortium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022.
Dima Nikiforov, Kris Shengjun Dong, Borivoje Nikolic and Yakun Sophia Shao.
Kris Shengjun Dong, Dima Nikiforov, Widyadewi Soedarmadji, Minh Nguyen, Christopher Fletcher, Yakun Sophia Shao.
May 2023 - Sep 2023
I led a new lecture series "Introduction to Embedded Systems and Edge ML" at UC Berkeley's Summer Campaign, Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) Academy. Job duty includes but is not limited to designing curriculum, and organizing the program and organized lab sections, introducing high school students to machine learning, robotic prototyping and embedded systems programming on edge devices.
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
At Tesla, I contributed to enabling vehicle remote control for long-distance tele-operation with confidential, unreleased features. Additionally, I optimized user flows for Tesla's human-machine interface by re-architecting the notification stack and enhancing the vehicle range analysis portal, improving efficiency and satisfaction for 3.6 million users.
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
At Amazon, I initiated the "Alexa for Fulfillment Center" project, enabling Alexa to assist warehouse associates in completing tasks with appropriate instructions. Collaborating with Amazon’s Alexa (Speech) team, I defined project requirements to guide development and deployment efforts and conducted prototype evaluation using real-world data in diverse noisy warehouse environments.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
2022 - 2027
Master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
2021 - 2022
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance
2016 - 2020
Minh Nguyen (Fall 2023 - Present): Undergraduate at UC Berkeley -> MS in EECS at UC Berkeley
Widyadewi Soedarmadji (Winter 2023 - Present): Undergraduate at UC Berkeley -> PhD in CS at Tsinghua University
Chun Deng (Jan 2023 - Winter 2023): Undergraduate at UC Berkeley -> PhD at Stanford University
Yuxin Jin (Summer 2024): Undergraduate at Tsinghua University -> Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley
I led a team of nine students and four advisors for the 8th- 9th Annual Women of Isenberg Conference, including virtual seminars and workshops, successfully raising $70,000 and maintaining brand identity through various promotional activities.
I coordinated career fairs and networking events to promote company culture and career opportunities, mentored students, and engaged with local colleges and community organizations to build candidate pipelines.
I directed a team to organize hackathons with diverse workshops and panels, supporting a community of over 1300 women and non-binary individuals in technology.
At the VELA Program of Amherst Regional Middle School, I organized afterschool clubs, assisted with curriculum implementation and homework support, monitored student progress, and participated in weekly reflection sessions and program evaluation.