Brief Autobiography

My name is Tsun-Yu Yang. I obtained my Ph.D. degree, under the supervision of Prof. Ming-Chang Yang, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, Hong Kong, in December 2023. From January 2024 to date, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Science (IIS) of Academia Sinica, working under the supervision of Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang.

My research interests focus on various types of system designs, which include graph processing, emerging memory/storage technologies (e.g., Skyrmion racetrack memory, IMR-based HDD, Zoned Namespace SSD (ZNS), non-volatile memory), and graph neural networks. The objective of my research papers often revolves around three themes: cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability. During my Ph.D. studies, I published eight papers in various conferences/journals, including 1 * USENIX OSDI, 2 * USENIX FAST, 1 * USENIX ATC, 1 * ACM ASPLOS, 1 * IEEE/ACM DAC, 1 * IEEE HPCA, and 1 * IEEE TCAD.

In addition to publication, I was awarded the Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Scholar, which is one of the highest honors for all postdoctoral researchers working in Academia Sinica. I also received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship (HKPFS) Award, the most prestigious honor for Ph.D. students studying in Hong Kong. Additionally, I received the CUHK Vice-Chancellor HKPFS scholarship, the 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Fellow, and the Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK.

For academic services, I am currently serving as a reviewer for the IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) journal, and will serve as the Secretary of Technical Program Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.

I am currently seeking a position as an assistant professor worldwide and I very much welcome all relevant opportunities. Please feel free to contact me for any open positions.

Conference/Journal Paper

• Tsun-Yu Yang, Xiangjun Peng, Wang Kang, and Ming-Chang Yang, "Towards Write Optimization for Skyrmion Racetrack Memory by Skyrmion Re-permutation," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1769-1780, June 2024.

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• Tsun-Yu Yang, Yizou Chen, Yuhong Liang, and Ming-Chang Yang, "Seraph: Towards Scalable and Efficient Fully-external Graph Computation via On-demand Processing," USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 27-29, 2024.

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• Tsun-Yu Yang, Cale England, Yi Li, Bingzhe Li, and Ming-Chang Yang, "Grafu: Unleashing the Full Potential of Future Value Computation for Out-of-core Synchronous Graph Processing," ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), San Diego, CA, USA, April 27–May 1, 2024.

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• Yi Li, Tsun-Yu Yang, Ming-Chang Yang, Zhaoyan Shen, and Bingzhe Li, "Celeritas: Out-of-Core based Unsupervised Graph Neural Network via Cross-layer Computing," IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2–6, 2024.

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• Chao Wang, Junliang Hu, Tsun-Yu Yang, Yuhong Liang, and Ming-Chang Yang, "SEPH: Scalable, Efficient, and Predictable Hashing on Persistent Memory," USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Boston, MA, USA, July 10–12, 2023.

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• Tsun-Yu Yang, Yuhong Liang, and Ming-Chang Yang, "Practicably Boosting the Processing Performance of BFS-like Algorithms on Semi-External Graph System via I/O-Efficient Graph Ordering," USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Hybrid Event, February 22-24, 2022.

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• Yuhong Liang, Tsun-Yu Yang, and Ming-Chang Yang, "KVIMR: Key-Value Store Aware Data Management Middleware for Interlaced Magnetic Recording Based Hard Disk Drive," USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Virtual Conference, July 14-16, 2021.

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• Tsun-Yu Yang, Ming-Chang Yang, Jiawei Li, and Wang Kang, "Permutation-Write: Optimizing Write Performance and Energy for Skyrmion Racetrack Memory," ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, USA, July 19-23, 2020. (Virtual Conference)

Recent Awards

• Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Scholar, begin from Jul./2024

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• Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship (HKPFS), 2019-2023

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• CUHK Vice-Chancellor HKPFS Scholarship, 2019-2023

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• The 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Fellow, 2020

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• Best Teaching Assistant Award, 2020

Service

• The Secretary of Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.

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• Reviewer @ IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2024.

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