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Markham, Ontario, Canada

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Specializing in leading Chiplet Interconnection Technology post-silicon validation. Developed test plans that aimed to target IP functionality at the post-silicon level. Created an automation framework from scratch that enabled my team to upload their test cases into this framework, automatically executing the test case in conjunction with logging relevant information and displaying the assertion results. Q2 2023 - Received Executive Spotlight Award for reducing bring-up period… Show more Specializing in leading Chiplet Interconnection Technology post-silicon validation. Developed test plans that aimed to target IP functionality at the post-silicon level. Created an automation framework from scratch that enabled my team to upload their test cases into this framework, automatically executing the test case in conjunction with logging relevant information and displaying the assertion results. Q2 2023 - Received Executive Spotlight Award for reducing bring-up period for IP on one of AMD's flagship products.Q1 2024 - Received Executive Spotlight Award for successful bring-up of new IP; Used my self-developed automation framework which greatly reduced bring-up time by over 66%. Show less

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Working in NBIO team @ AMDIPSE (Intelectual Property Solutions Engineer) for AMD's in-house die-to-die and socket-to-socket communication protocol. The role is to take over the design in post-silicon and help enable all features of the IP as well as debug anything that could hinder the IP. After a limited ramp-up period(~5 months after being hired as a new grad), I was able to be the lead contributor for those IPs in post-silicon on many of the mainstream projects such in Client, Data… Show more Working in NBIO team @ AMDIPSE (Intelectual Property Solutions Engineer) for AMD's in-house die-to-die and socket-to-socket communication protocol. The role is to take over the design in post-silicon and help enable all features of the IP as well as debug anything that could hinder the IP. After a limited ramp-up period(~5 months after being hired as a new grad), I was able to be the lead contributor for those IPs in post-silicon on many of the mainstream projects such in Client, Data Center and Server. Currently working on developing automation tools using Python to help bridge the gap between post-silicon validation and design. Q2 2022 - Received NBIO Leadership Recognition Award for my contributions towards enabling key power management features on server-level and client-level projects during a critical time.Q2 2022 - Received Executive Spotlight Award for heavily contributing towards EYPC 9004 and Ryzen 7000. Q3 2022 - Received AMD's Next 5% for my overall contributions towards Ryzen 7000.Q3 2022 - Received Executive Spotlight Award for heavily contributing towards MI300 and debugging major blockers on EYPC 9004.Q1 2023 - Received NBIO Leadership Recognition Award for developing and deploying automated test cases to expedite bring-up periods on key up-coming silicon.Q2 2023 - Coauthor of patent with various AMD members ranging from SMTS - Fellow; "CHIPLET INTERCONNECT POWER STATE MANAGEMENT". Show less

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Found my passion for computers and technology through building my first PC in the ninth grade. Ever since then, I have honed my skills in building and repairing PCs for clients. This side-job keeps me up to date with current PC hardware components being released. I have also acquired diagnostic skills when it comes to finding problems with a client's PC.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

L.E.A.P - Light Emitting Access Point. In short, L.E.A.P is a system that utilizes an LED cube to transmit data which is then captured by a camera and decoded. Started as a Systems Engineering capstone project between three friends during my fourth year at Carleton. Later expanded to a full-blown project between four members in hopes of developing proof of concept of using Li-Fi-like characteristics to send secure data in parallel using light. We are currently working on this project… Show more L.E.A.P - Light Emitting Access Point. In short, L.E.A.P is a system that utilizes an LED cube to transmit data which is then captured by a camera and decoded. Started as a Systems Engineering capstone project between three friends during my fourth year at Carleton. Later expanded to a full-blown project between four members in hopes of developing proof of concept of using Li-Fi-like characteristics to send secure data in parallel using light. We are currently working on this project steadily with Professor Chung-Horng Lung from Carleton University in hopes of pursuing a published article in the IEEE journal. As for system design, I have helped developed the transmission protocols between our transmitter and receiver to allow the data flow to be efficient yet effective. The primary goal is data transfer. All data sent must be received. The secondary goal is security. Data transmitted must be converted into 3-D space (a LED cube) then be received and decoded back into the original data. The final goal is speed. Data transmissions must not be the bottleneck of our system, as the advantage of using light as a source to transmit data is because of its speed. As a developer, I have created the transmitter and receiver units that communicate with each other - implementing the protocol stated above. I implemented an FTP with TCP Handshake technique embedded with CRC32 encryption logic. This ensures all data is successfully transferred, but transmission messages are encrypted to potential Wi-Fi breaches. Another module I developed was the receiver portion of the project. I utilized Python's OpenCV library to continuously capture the LED cube and calibrate the software to the environment. The receiver is then able to read data from the cube in 3D space, understand it as 2D space then decodes it into the original 1D data. The algorithm uses a bounding box method to detect LED positions along with some geometric techniques to assign points to locations. Show less

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Systems

Activities and Societies: Volleyball

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, Badminton, Orchestra, Math Club, Amnesty International, Asian Culture Club