George Lai Yuan
I am currently pursuing a Master of Applied Science degree in Computer Engineering in the University of British Columbia.

Email:
Office: 		gyuan(at)ece(dot)ubc(dot)ca
KAIS 4075

Research Interests

My interests lie in improving performance of GPU architectures for general purpose applications as well as improving performance of general purpose applications using GPUs.

Bio

Education
Master of Applied Science in Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia - Expect to be completed May 2009.
Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, The University of British Columbia - Completed August 2007.

Recent Employment
June 2005 - May 2006: Researcher Internship, J. Morita Mfg. Corp., Kyoto
January 2004 - April 2004: Hardware Engineer, TRIUMF, Vancouver
September 2003 - December 2003: Regional Support Unit, Transport Canada, Vancouver

Publications

Ali Bakhoda, George Yuan, Wilson W. L. Fung, Henry Wong, Tor M. Aamodt. Performance Analysis of GPU Compute Workloads via Detailed Simulation, to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2009), Boston, MA, April 19-21, 2009. (acceptance rate = 28%)

Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, George Yuan, Matei Ripeanu. StoreGPU: Exploiting Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate Distributed Storage Systems. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, MA, June 23-27, 2008. (acceptance rate = 17%)

Wilson W. L. Fung, Ivan Sham, George Yuan, Tor M. Aamodt. Dynamic Warp Formation and Scheduling for Efficient GPU Control Flow. 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2007): 407-420.

Resume

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