Shengjun Kris Dong is a Ph.D. graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Sophia Yakun Shao and Prof. Christopher W. Fletcher. Kris's research interests lie in domain-specific acceleration and hardware-software co-design.
Kris's research work encompasses methodology and infrastructure, spanning from algorithm optimization to hardware design. Recently, she innovated an infrastructure to enable agile design flows for domain-specific accelerators: RoSÉ, a unified simulation platform that combines hardware and software, enabling pre-silicon, full-stack, closed-loop evaluation of robotic systems.
Prior to joining Berkeley, she worked as a Software Engineer at Tesla and a Product Manager at Amazon. She has 6+ years of programming experience through internships and projects involving hardware architecture design, full-stack software/system development, and heterogeneous systems evaluation, targeting embedded machine learning, and robotic applications.
Before her PhD, Kris received a dual Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley; She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from UMass Amherst.
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
Under Review at R-AL
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, 2023.
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.
Volunteered at UC Berkeley's Summer Campaign, Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) Academy. Job duty includes but is not limited to organizing and designing curriculum for students who want to learn entry-level skills about machine learning and embedded systems programming on edge devices.
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 University of Pennsylvania
Yuxin Jin (Summer 2024 - Present): Tsinghua University -> Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley
Chenxi Wan (Summer 2024 - Present): University of Science and Technology of China -> 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.