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Chenhe Yuan
MEng Student in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
📍 London, United Kingdom
Education
University College London
Sept 2022 - Jun 2026MEng (Integrated Master's) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- GPA: 3.79/4.0
- Relevant Coursework: Advanced Digital Design, DSP and Systems, Programming and Control Systems.
The University of Texas at Austin
Aug 2024 - May 2025Undergraduate Exchange, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- GPA: 3.5/4.0
- Coursework: Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Compilers, Digital Electronics.
Systems & Engineering Projects
Personal Project · Xilinx VU13P
- Designed a deterministic AXI-Stream UDP packet parser in SystemVerilog targeting HFT market data price extraction; achieved fmax ≈ 612 MHz (WNS +0.367 ns at 500 MHz constraint) on Xilinx UltraScale+, using 298 LUTs and 198 FFs (<0.03% device utilisation).
- Implemented strictly ordered fail-fast header filtering (EtherType -> Protocol -> Dst Port) with beat-counter-driven parsing, discarding non-matching packets at the earliest valid beat.
- Designed a host-reconfigurable runtime format table with masked discriminator lookup, enabling live feed format updates without FPGA re-synthesis.
- Engineered a cross-beat price assembly datapath supporting 4-byte price fields at arbitrary alignment across AXI-Stream beat boundaries, with per-lane tkeep gating and single-cycle price-valid output.
- Verified with cocotb (Verilator): directed tests, bubble injection (non-contiguous tvalid), and a 100-packet randomised sweep with Python reference model across all price offsets and bubble probabilities.
LiDAR-Camera Fusion Sparse Inference Architecture for FPGA Classification
Oct 2025 - Jun 2026Team Project, advised by Prof. R. Killey, University College London
- Proposed a LiDAR-camera fusion approach that pruned distant background pixels before inference, converting dense visual input into a sparser computation problem.
- Designed a sparse tiled-convolution architecture to exploit spatial continuity in foreground regions, improving tile occupancy and DSP utilization under on-chip resource limits.
- Implemented the Jetson-based comparison pipeline and used it to evaluate trade-offs against the FPGA-oriented design.
LC-3B ISA Simulators and Assembler in C
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024ECE 460N Computer Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
- Built LC-3B simulators in C at the instruction-level, microarchitectural, virtual-memory, and cycle-accurate levels to validate behavior across abstraction layers.
- Extended the microarchitecture with virtual memory support, including user/system address-space separation.
- Implemented an assembler translating LC-3B assembly into executable binaries with correct starting-address handling.
Research Experience
Streaming Sparse 3D CNN Accelerator on FPGA
May 2025 - Dec 2025Advisor: Prof. Lizy K. John, The University of Texas at Austin
- Designed a streaming FPGA accelerator for sparse 3D convolution on Xilinx VU9P, using four-stage pipelines and FIFO buffering to overlap adjacent layers without global synchronization.
- Built a hierarchical BRAM-based occupancy-bitmap pipeline to skip empty voxel regions online, improving performance by up to 4.4x on spatially sparse layers.
- Implemented DRAM-backed kernel tiling with URAM accumulation buffers and identified off-chip READ bandwidth as the primary bottleneck through DMA/compute throughput analysis.
Compute-in-Memory Architecture for In-Sensor CNN Evaluation on FPGA
May 2024 - Oct 2024Advisor: Prof. Chao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Designed a digital emulation of an analog crossbar memristor array for CNN evaluation, translating compute-in-memory behavior into a configurable FPGA prototype.
- Implemented the design for a Xilinx Zynq-7000 target through synthesis, implementation, and bitstream generation across multiple configurations.
- Evaluated trade-offs between architectural configurations and workload characteristics to guide further exploration.
Embedded Acceleration Module for CNN Convolution
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023Advisor: Prof. Tinghuan Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
- Contributed to a parameterized Winograd-based convolution IP generator in Chisel/SystemVerilog, reducing multiplication count in CNN inference layers; authored the templated compute logic in Chisel, enabling configurable array sizes across generated IP variants.
- Proposed a pipelined synchronization scheme for correct handshaking across pipeline stages in the generated hardware.
Skills
Hardware Description SystemVerilog, Chisel (Scala-embedded), Vitis HLS
Simulation & Verification Cocotb, Verilator, Icarus Verilog
FPGA Vendor Tools Vivado, Quartus
Architecture Research Tools gem5, ChampSim, Accel-Sim, Timeloop/Accelergy, MATLAB
Programming Languages C, C++, Java; experienced with typed and functional programming paradigms (Scala/Chisel, Java generics, C++ templates)