Jenna Yang

Jenna Yang

PhD Candidate at Computer Science

Hi there, I’m Jenna

I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, part of the System-Level Design Group at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia University, I received my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST.
Research Interests
Computer Architecture | Heterogeneous Reconfigurable SoC | HW/SW Co-Design Approach
Coursework
System-on-chip Platforms | Embedded Scalable Platforms | System Optimization with AI/ML

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia University.    Aug 2023 – Present | New York, NY
    Advisor: Professor Luca P. Carloni

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST.       Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 | Daejeon, South Korea
    Advisor: Professor Joo-Young Kim

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST.       Mar 2016 – Aug 2022 | Daejeon, South Korea
    Graduated Cum Laude (GPA: 3.72 / 4.3)
    Exchange Student, University of California, Irvine.        Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 | Irvine, CA

Experience

  • Google.                                                                     May 2025 – Aug 2025 | New York, NY
    Student Researcher. ML, Systems and Cloud AI Team
    • Developed an agentic AI system with a prompt engineering for RTL simulation debugging and verification.
    • Optimized waveform-to-database conversion to generate SQL for signal data retrieval, reducing database size by 18% and accelerating generation time by 65%.
  • Rebellions Inc.                                                 Oct 2022 – May 2023 | Seoul, South Korea
    Research Intern. AI Accelerator and System Team
    • Implemented a system emulation tool in Python to determine the optimal hardware configuration, including number of acceleration chips, chip-to-chip topology and bandwidth, memory and computation resources for real-time inference.
    • Mapped and simulated the transformer-based hyper-scale models (BERT, GPT-2, and T5) with system emulation tool.

Awards & Scholarships

  • Gold Prize, 29th Samsung HumanTech Award (1st in Circuit Design Division). Feb 2023
  • National Full Scholarship, KAIST. Sep 2020
  • Grand Prize, WISET Female Engineering Program. Apr 2018
  • National Science & Technology Scholarship. Mar 2018