{"688104":{"#nid":"688104","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CSE Faculty Candidate Seminar - Yuka Ikarashi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EName: \u003C\/strong\u003EYuka Ikarashi, Ph.D. Candidate from MIT\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ETuesday, February 17, 2026 at 11:00 am\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Coda Building, Room 114 (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/m7KfgEEVWV581bxD9\u0022\u003EGoogle Maps link\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELink:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThe recording of this in-person seminar will be uploaded to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mediaspace.gatech.edu\/channel\/School%2Bof%2BComputational%2BScience%2Band%2BEngineering\/259332602\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECSE\u0027s MediaSpace\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECoffee and snacks provided!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EUncompromising Performance with Exocompilation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Performance is the currency of modern computing. Achieving peak throughput on fast\u2011evolving accelerators demands more control than today\u0027s compilers provide. I will present Exo and the Exocompilation paradigm: a user\u2011schedulable programming language that shifts two responsibilities traditionally hard\u2011coded in compilers--hardware backends and optimization strategies--into safe, extensible user libraries. In Exo, optimizations are expressed as verified rewrites that guarantee functional equivalence, and low\u2011level primitives (e.g., explicit instruction selection, GPU asynchrony) give programmers precise control. This design enables targeting CPUs, GPUs, and matrix engines, and supports concise, reusable scheduling libraries that match or surpass the performance of state-of-the-art libraries such as cuBLAS and MKL. Exo\u2011generated kernels already ship at scale, including on Apple devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Yuka Ikarashi is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL. She received her M.S. from MIT in 2022 and her B.S. from the University of Tokyo in 2020. Passionate about compilers and programming languages for high-performance computing, she created the Exo programming language. She has previously worked at Apple, Amazon, and CERN, applying her research to various accelerators and applications. She has been awarded the Quad Fellowship, the Masason Foundation Fellowship, the Funai Foundation Fellowship, the ML and Systems Rising Stars Award, and the Rising Stars in EECS Award. 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