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Yuka Ikarashi

PhD Student

MIT CSAIL

Office: 32-D466

E-mail: yuka at csail.mit.edu

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Site last update: January 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.

News

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.
I'm visiting Stanford to give a lecture for CS 343D and a talk for Software Research Lunch on 3/6/2025.
I will present our paper, "Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language," at ASPLOS 2025!
I'm visiting TU Berlin on 4/7 and the University of Cambridge from 4/9-4/11.

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Publications

	Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language Yuka Ikarashi, Kevin Qian, Samir Droubi, Alex Reinking, Gilbert Bernstein, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley ASPLOS 2025 [arxiv]
	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: Kenneth Moon, Luca Musk, and Jason Ng.
- Previous students: Kevin Qian, Samir Droubi, Andrew Weinfeld, Jacob Teo, and Mario Mrowka.
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

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

OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Committee (2025)
CGO Artifact Evaluation Committee (2025)
SIGGRAPH Asia Reviewer (2024)
ICFP Artifact Evaluation Committee (2024)
MIT PLR Program Committee (2023 and 2024)
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

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.

I'm happy to see people are accessing my page from all over the world!