Elijah Gaohan Ye

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Hi! 👋

My name is Elijah Gaohan Ye. Elijah is my English first name, and Gaohan is my Chinese first name. I am a Master of Science student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying Electrical and Computer Engineering (Expected May 2026). I completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the same institution in December 2023 with a GPA of 3.96/4.00.

I am currently working as a Teaching Assistant for Digital Systems Laboratory (ECE 385), where I evaluate SystemVerilog/FPGA projects and conduct technical demonstrations of digital circuits and SoC designs.

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I have industry experience at Rivian Automotive as a Design Verification Intern on the RAP1 Silicon Team, where I developed system-level testcases for RAP1 (Rivian Autonomy Processor), a custom 5nm AI inference chip delivering 1600 sparse TOPS for autonomous driving compute. I enhanced verification coverage, developed system-level tests, and worked with UVM testbenches.

My research focuses on computer architecture, particularly hardware-software co-design for accelerating Large Language Models (LLMs). I have published work on “Exploiting Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for LLM Inference” in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2024, which received the IEEE Best Paper Award. I’m currently working on transparent memory management for large-scale LLM training and tuning, and co-authored “ReScue: Reliable and secure CXL memory” published at HPCA 2026.

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Programming: System Verilog (Advanced), C/C++ (Advanced), UVM/OVM, Python, CUDA

Hardware Design: RTL Design, CPU Architecture, RISC-V, x86, CXL/PCIe, Cache Design

Tools: Verdi, VCS, Git, Linux, Intel Extension for PyTorch, Performance Analysis

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Beyond my academic and research interests in computer architecture and LLM acceleration, I enjoy playing basketball and working out to stay active and maintain a healthy work-life balance.