Hongyu Mcgowan
Graduate Student Researcher
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolHongyu Mcgowan is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Irvine specializing in software systems research with a focus on binary translation and binary lifting using MLIR and LLVM. With seven years of engineering experience across academia and industry, Hongyu has contributed to decompilation, calling-convention modeling, and ELF loader fixes at Vector 35 and optimized lexer and expression handling during a Google internship. Their work blends low-level systems thinking with practical tooling—implementing register windowing, SSA-friendly attributes, and double-precision constant folding to improve decompiler accuracy and performance. Beyond research, Hongyu has built full-stack lab information systems in production and authored microbenchmarks for cache and core-hopping studies, showing a rare mix of systems research rigor and production engineering. Colocated in Irvine, CA, they bring deep LLVM/MLIR expertise coupled with hands-on experience across processor architectures and deployment environments.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
compiler10
modular10
clang10
llvm10
toolchain10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hongyu-dev/llvm-project
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Linking Together All Meows
Contributions:2 PRs, 126 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year
tracyliang77/VMware-CodeHouse-2022
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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