Jason Lau
Hardware Engineer at Jump Trading Group
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Lau is a hardware engineer and UCLA PhD with 12 years of cross-domain experience spanning silicon, compilers, devops, HPC, and web development. He led technology as co-founder and CTO of RapidStream (acquired in 2025) and now builds low-latency systems at Jump Trading Group, combining research rigor with production engineering. His doctoral work in high-level synthesis focused on easing compilation from algorithm to silicon, and he has practical product experience from a Google internship where his charting work for Google Cloud remains in use. Equally comfortable in RTL, compilers, and full-stack web stacks, he pairs deep EDA expertise with an artist’s sensibility from a BA in Digital Arts—a mix that shows up in both applied research and user-facing tooling.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (134)
lattice10
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vivado10
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tla10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dotkrnl/heterotask
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:56 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
heterosys/mlir-aie
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
🎯 (5/5) an MLIR-based toolchain for Xilinx Versal AI Engine devices.
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 15 branches in 7 months
mlirtoolchainxilinxai-engine
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