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Yuka Ikarashi PhD Student MIT CSAIL Office: 32-D466 E-mail: yuka at csail.mit.edu CV (last update: April 2025) Google Scholar Site last update: September 2025

I am a PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL, advised by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley. I also work closely with Gilbert Bernstein. I received a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2022 from MIT. Previously, I received a Bachelor of Science in Information Science in 2020 from the University of Tokyo, where I worked with Takeo Igarashi and Tsukasa Fukusato.

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News

Publications

	Portable, High Performance Matrix Multiplication Micro-Kernels for RISC-V with Exo Adrián Castelló, Hèctor Martínez, Sandra Catalán, Jie Lei, Yuka Ikarashi, Grace Dinh, Francisco D. Igual, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí PDP 2025 [IEEE]
	Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language Yuka Ikarashi, Kevin Qian, Samir Droubi, Alex Reinking, Gilbert Bernstein, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley ASPLOS 2025 [arxiv] [MIT News] [ACM DL]
	UFO Instruction Graphs Are Machine Knittable Jenny Lin, Yuka Ikarashi, Gilbert Bernstein, Jim McCann SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (journal) [project page] [ACM DL]
	Tackling the Matrix Multiplication Micro-kernel Generation with Exo Adrián Castelló, Julian Bellavita, Grace Dinh, Yuka Ikarashi, Héctor Martínez CGO 2024 [arxiv] [ACM DL]
	Semantics and Scheduling for Machine Knitting Compilers Jenny Lin, Vidya Narayanan, Yuka Ikarashi, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Gilbert Bernstein, Jim McCann SIGGRAPH 2023 (journal) [project page] [ACM DL]
	Exocompilation for Productive Programming of Hardware Accelerators Yuka Ikarashi*, Gilbert Louis Bernstein*, Alex Reinking, Hasan Genc, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley (*Equal contributions) PLDI 2022 [project page] [ACM DL] [MIT News] [Full pdf]
	Guided Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines Yuka Takahashi, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi VL/HCC 2021 short paper. Best Short Paper Award. [IEEE](short version) [arxiv](long version)
	PaintersView: Automatic Suggestion of Optimal Viewpoints for 3D Texture Painting Yuka Takahashi, Tsukasa Fukusato, Takeo Igarashi SIGGRAPH ASIA 2019 technical brief [project page] [doi] [full html]

Teaching and Mentoring

• September 2021 - present, mentoring MIT undergrad and MEng students on various Exo related projects.
  • Current students: Luca Musk, and Jason Ng.
  • Previous students: Kevin Qian, Samir Droubi, Andrew Weinfeld, Jacob Teo, Mario Mrowka, and Kenneth Moon.
• Spring 2023, TA for 6.101 (Fundamentals of Programming), MIT.
  
• April 2019 - August 2019, Google Summer of Code Mentor, HSF software foundation.
  
• September 2019, Security Mini-camp, Lecturer.
  Gave a compiler lecture to middle and high school students at the Japanese government-funded security lecturing project.

Grants and Awards

• Jane Street Fellowship Honorable Mention (2025)
  
• Rising Stars in EECS (2024)
  
• Quad Fellowship (2024)
  Granted $40,000.
  
• ML and Systems Rising Stars (2024)
  
• Masason Foundation Fellowship (2020-2025)
  Granted 5 years of tuition, stipend, and travel costs.
  
• The Great Educators Fellowship from MIT EECS (2020)
  Granted 9 months of tuition and stipend.
  
• Dean's Award (2020) from the University of Tokyo
  
• Doctoral research fellowship from Funai Foundation (2021-2023)
  Granted 2 years of tuition and stipend.
  
• Research internship grant from SVAP 2019.
  

Community Service

• TOPLAS Reviewer (2025)
  
• PLDI Artifact Evaluation Committee (2025)
  
• OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Committee (2025)
  
• CGO Artifact Evaluation Committee (2025)
  
• SIGGRAPH Asia Reviewer (2024)
  
• ICFP Artifact Evaluation Committee (2024)
  
• MIT PLR Program Committee (2023-2025)
  
• Japanese Association of MIT (JAM)
  President, 2022-2024
  
• Japanese Graduate Student Association
  Vice President, 2020-2023
  
• .406 Ventures Fellowship
  Student Fellow, 2021-2023
  
• E14 Fund Fellowship
  Student Fellow, 2022-2023
  

Old News

2025

• I'm giving a remote talk at Google on 9/4.
• I'm visiting Jane Street (NY office) on 8/29. My collaborator David is giving a talk on Exo-GPU.
• I'm visiting MSR (Redmond) on 7/21 and NVIDIA (Redmond) on 7/22 and giving talks.
• I'm giving a talk at GPU MODE on 6/28.
• I'm visiting and giving a talk at ORNL from 5/28-5/31.
• I'll be visiting UC Berkeley from 4/26-5/24 and giving a talk at the SLICE-all and the SLICE retreat.
• I'm visiting TU Berlin on 4/7 and the University of Cambridge from 4/9-4/11.
• I will present our paper, "Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language," at ASPLOS 2025.
• I'm visiting Stanford to give a lecture for CS 343D and a talk for Software Research Lunch on 3/6/2025.
• Adrián Castelló will present our paper, "Portable, High Performance Matrix Multiplication Micro-Kernels for RISC-V with Exo," at PDP 2025! Please go see his talk.

2024

• I will give a talk at Women in CG at SIGGRAPH Asia on Wednesday, December 4th at 11:00 am.
• Jenny Lin will present our work, "UFO Instruction Graphs Are Machine Knittable," at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 in Tokyo. I will attend in person as well!
• I will be speaking about Exo at the Scale ML seminar at MIT on November 13th.
• I will be attending Rising Stars in EECS at MIT from October 24-25, 2024.
• I will be visiting Washington, D.C. for the Quad Fellowship Summit from October 6-9, 2024.
• Here's my summer 2024 travel plans. Let me know if you happen to be in the same location. Let's hang out!
  • Visiting Gilbert at the University of Washington from 8/7-9/7.
  • Visiting CMU (7/26-7/27), University of Cambridge (7/28-31), and Paris (8/1-8/5).
  • Visiting NVIDIA HQ (7/15-7/16), University of Berkeley (7/17).
• I will give a talk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 3/15/2024.
• I will give a talk at CERN's compiler-research monthly meeting on 2/1/2024.

  2023

• I will be returning at vector and numerics team at Apple this summer to work on Exo.
• Jenny Lin will present our paper at SIGGRAPH 2023. Please go see her talk!
• I will give a talk at Languages, Systems, and Data Seminar on 5/5/2023.
• I will give a talk at a compiler reading group organized by Google Tensorflow team on 2/23/2023.
• I will give a talk at Brown Visual Computing Seminar on 2/24/2023. I will be visiting Brown in person.

Miscellany

• Travel

  I love traveling. I've traveled to 35 countries so far. Japan (born and lived for 21 years), UK (lived for one year) + British Virgin Islands, France, Belgium, Netherlands + Saint Maarten, Germany, Switzerland (lived for one year), Austria, Tunisia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, US (living since 2020) + US Virgin Islands, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Fiji, Luxembourg, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Canada, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Belarus, Czechia, UAE, Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, Nepal.

• My name is 五十嵐祐花 in Japanese.

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