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Hi! I’m Cedar. Currently, I’m a Masters of Applied Science student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of British Columbia. Before that, I attended Harvey Mudd College, where I got a double major in Mathematics and Engineering. I have a resume and a CV.
Work Experience
I am working with Guy Lemieux and Frank Wood at UBC, researching novel techniques in analog hardware acceleration for machine learning.
Previously, I did research with David Harris as a Clay-Wolkin fellow. We designed a RISC-V pipelined processor, and the team is putting the finishing touches on a textbook for teaching courses on the architecture. I coauthored a couple manuscripts on the division and square root module.
I also graded and tutored for various classes at HMC.
In the past summers, I worked as a junior faculty at HCSSiM, an intern at Volpe Pathways, a counselor at MathPath, and a backgammon researcher under Professor Arthur Benjamin.
Projects
Here are some more personal projects I’ve worked on.
I designed a Pet Autofeeder, which has its own website.
Classes
I’ve taken and graded/tutored for a lot of classes. Check out the list here.
For my senior major capstones, I wrote a math thesis on differential topology and lead an engineering clinic with Sandia National Laboratories measuring ferroelectric permittivity of barium titanate. We published a paper and I presented our findings at the 2023 APS March Meeting.
My junior engineering capstone was a clinic with Toyota. We researched, designed, and tested novel methods of improving heat rejection on fuel cell-powered semi trucks. Our final design improved the cooling capacity of the radiator by 20%.
Publications
I contributed to the Floating-Point Chapter in RISC-V System-on-Chip Design by David Money Harris, James Stine, Rose Thompson, and Sarah L. Harris, to be published by Elsevier, 2024.
I co-wrote Digit Selection for Recurrence Division and Square Root with David Money Harris, James Stine, Alberto Nannarelli, Miloš Ercegovac, and Katherine Parry, published in IEEE Transactions on Computers (2023) doi: 10.1109/TC.2023.3305760.
I co-wrote Analyzing Barium Titanate TiO2 Surface Interactions with tert-Butylphosphonic Acid Using Density Functional Theory with Jessica Marvin, James Nicholson, Erina Iwasa, Nilay Pangrekar, Whitney Fowler, Renee Van Ginhoven, and Todd Monson, published in MRS Communications (2023).
I co-wrote Shared Recurrence Floating-Point Divide/Sqrt and Integer Divide/Remainder with Early Termination with Kevin Kim, Katherine Parry, David Money Harris, Ale Maiuolo, Rose Thompson, and James Stine, to be published this year in IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Hobbies
I play the violin a lot. There are some old videos on my dad’s youtube channel. I also enjoy playing hockey, golf, and tennis, skiing in the winter, and swimming. Otherwise, you will probably find me cooking or playing video games.