Yuka Ikarashi
@c20
PhD candidate @MIT CSAIL / Trying to make things work / 🇯🇵→@00_
I'm giving a talk at GPU mode tomorrow. Feel free to join the livestream: youtube.com/live/J58AdFTHp…
Can there be an invasion of Iran? Hardly. Two maps explain why, and also why Iran is the way it is today, whether its regime will fall, what other superpowers will do, and in general why Iran is the way it is today 1. Iran is a mountain & desert fortress
Story of all the 5th year PhD students
We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
Exo 2 news is out!
A new programming language from MIT could enable high-performance coding that can compete w/state-of-the-art libraries w/a few hundred lines of code, instead of tens or hundreds of thousands. Called "Exo 2," the approach enables reusable scheduling libraries external to…
I've been watching Timothy Snyder's class on Ukrainian history. This is super interesting, not only for learning about Ukraine's history, but also for getting a better understanding of what history is. youtu.be/bJczLlwp-d8?si…
The acceptance rate is quite high
Re. OOPSLA 2025, in R1, here are the stats on how the decisions were distributed: Accept: 22 CondAccept: 24 Minor: 12 Major: 30 Reject: 55
I'm shocked to see racism happening in academia again, at the best AI conference @NeurIPSConf. Targeting specific ethnic groups to describe misconduct is inappropriate and unacceptable. @NeurIPSConf must take a stand. We call on Rosalind Picard @MIT @medialab to retract and…
Any language-design paper that starts out talking about letting languages grow and citing Guy Steele's talk is immediately interesting :)
We published the Exo 2 paper on arXiv! It's about designing user-extensible scheduling languages. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07211
Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language arxiv.org/abs/2411.07211 github.com/exo-lang/exo Yuka Ikarashi, Kevin Qian, Samir Droubi, Alex Reinking, Gilbert Bernstein, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley ASPLOS (@ASPLOSConf) 2025
We published the Exo 2 paper on arXiv! It's about designing user-extensible scheduling languages. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07211
This week we have Yuka Ikarashi (@c20) present: Exocompilation for Specialized Hardware! Date/Time: Nov 13 3pm Sign up via scale-ml.org to join our mailing list for the zoom link
textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2… Our SIGGRAPH Asia paper is out. We're taking the formalization of knitting machines to the next level :)
A project I've been working on for more than two years got accepted to ASPLOS! Relieved 😌
