CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025 - Present
B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021 - 2025
- Dean’s List, 2023
B.Eng. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2021 - 2025
- Excellence Studying Scholarship, 2021 & 2022 & 2024

May 2026 - August 2026: Compiler Intern, NVIDIA
- Developed an agentic compiler test-generation framework for TileIR that automatically generates IR tests. It reduced the remaining coverage gap by half and found 300+ bugs
August 2025 - Present: Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Advised by Prof. Sasa Misailovic
September 2023 - May 2025: Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Advised by Prof. Sasa Misailovic & Prof. Gagandeep Singh
May 2023 – September 2023: Research Assistant, ZJU-UIUC Institute
- Advised by Prof. Aili Wang

PagedWeight: Efficient MoE LLM Serving with Dynamic Quality-Aware Weight Quantization
Yuchen Yang, Yifan Zhao, Anisha Dasgupta, Sasa Misailovic
Preprint
[Paper]
Nautilus: Auto-Scheduling Tensor Compiler for Advanced Fusion in Asynchronous and Pipelined GPU Kernels
Yifan Zhao, Yuchen Yang, Matei Budiu, Sasa Misailovic
Preprint
[Paper]
ARQ: A Mixed-Precision Quantization Framework for Accurate and Certifiably Robust DNNs
Yuchen Yang, Yifan Zhao, Shubham Ugare, Gagandeep Singh, Sasa Misailovic
ISSTA 2026
[Paper]
NeuBridge: Bridging Quantized Activations and Spiking Neurons for ANN-SNN Conversion
Yuchen Yang, Jingcheng Liu, Chengting Yu, Chengyi Yang, Gaoang Wang, Aili Wang
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2025
[Paper]