Scott Cheng

Education

National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
M.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: Professor I-Chen Wu

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)
B.S. in Computer Science
B.S. in Mathematics
Advisor: Professor Jerry Chou

Internship

Research Intern @ Intel

• (Ongoing collaboration research)
• [ISCA'23] Optimizing CPU Performance for Recommendation Systems At-Scale.

Research & Publications

The Design of a MuZero Framework.
M.S. Thesis in Computer Science.
YuHsuan Cheng.
National Chiao Tung University

Student Cluster Competition 2018, team NTHU: Reproducing performance of multi-physics simulations of the tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake on the Intel Skylake architecture.
Parallel Computing 90 (2019): 102569.
ShaoFu Lin, ChiChen Yang, YuHsuan Cheng, KengJui Hsu, HungHsin Chen, YuanChing Lin, and Jerry Chou
National Tsing Hua University

Student cluster competition 2017, team NTHU: Reproducing vectorization of the tersoff multi-body potential on the Intel Skylake and Nvidia P100 architecture.
Parallel Computing 78 (2018): 72-78.
ChanJung Chang, YungChing Lin, YuHsuan Cheng, YuCheng Wang, LiYu Yu, TienChi Yang, and Jerry Chou
National Tsing Hua University

Relevant Activities

• System Administrator of CGI Lab, NCTU
  • Provision 40 GPU servers with PXE in three server rooms.
  • Deploy services including LDAP, NFS, VPN, Web, Mail, DNS server.

• Team Leader of Student Cluster Competition (SC'18), NTHU
  • Provision Infiniband RDMA HPC systems with power control.
  • Accelerate Horovod distributed deep learning with TensorFlow and PyTorch.

• Team Leader of Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC'18), NTHU
  • Provision RDMA-enabled HPC systems with power control.
  • Achieve the highest performance in LINPACK (FP64 benchmark).
  • Optimize machine reading comprehension in the MSMARCO dataset.

• Team Leader of Student Cluster Competition (SC'17), NTHU
  • Provision HPC systems on the cloud with RDMA networks.
  • Accelerate 30% in Mr. Bayes using SIMD vectorization and NVIDIA GPU libraries.

• Team Leader of Taiwan Student Cluster Competition (TSCC'17), NTHU
  • Provision HPC systems with RDMA networks.
  • Acceleration of REEF3D hydrodynamics simulations using MPI, OpenMP, and TBB.

• Organization Coordinator of NTHU ION, NTHU

• Parallel Processors and Processing, PSU

• Discrete Mathematics, PSU

• AI Training Program, MediaTek Inc.

• Deep Learning and Practice, NCTU

• Network Programming, NCTU

Honors & Awards

Hsinchu Science Park Information and Communication Talent Training Program
Scholarship for M.S. research from Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan

Academic Achievement Award
Awarded by Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University

Presidential Hsing Chien Award
Awarded by National Tsing Hua University

Academic Achievement Award * 6
Awarded by Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University

Fang Xianqi Scholarship
Awarded by Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd

First Prize, Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC'18)
Awarded to top 20 teams of over 300 universities worldwide

Highest Linpack, Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC'18)
Awarded to top 1 of over 20 teams worldwide in the final

Second Place, 2017 Student Cluster Competition (SC'17)
Awarded over 16 teams worldwide in the final

Champion, 2017 Taiwan Student Cluster Competition (TSCC'17)
Awarded to top 1 of over 8 teams in the final
Awarded by National Center for High-performance Computing

Li Xinmin Scholarship
Awarded to top 4 students in the Department of Mathematics
Awarded by Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University

Open Source Software Talents Cultivation Fellowship
Fellowship for college student research from Industrial Technology Research Institute

The 3rd Contest of NTHU/ITRI Open Source Incubation Program
Award of Excellence
Awarded by Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University