Yangyu Chen
China
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Top SchoolYangyu Chen is a Silicon Validation Engineer at Apple with 11 years of experience bridging computer architecture, RTL validation, and software tooling. He holds strong academic credentials from Georgia Tech and the University of Washington and has driven research in network-on-chip and domain-specific architecture as a Grad Research Assistant. Yangyu has practical chip and CPU experience from multiple roles at Apple and Rivos, where he built RTL performance validation infrastructure and correlated RTL behavior to performance models. He is fluent in C, Python, SystemVerilog and assembly, and has a track record of shipping test suites and developer tools that make hardware features more accessible. An open-source enthusiast and former Ph.D. student focused on architecture-software co-design, he combines rigorous research thinking with hands-on debugging across the full stack of silicon validation. Based in Austin, he brings rare cross-disciplinary experience from bio-robotics ML work to large-scale CPU validation.
11 years of coding experience
Chongqing University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
compiler-optimization10
risc-v10
c1110
gcc10
assembly8
assembler8
assemble8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
cyyself/u-boot
Mar 2022 - Jan 2026
"Das U-Boot" Source Tree
Contributions:33 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 11 months
u-bootdas
cyyself/cyyrv64
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
My RV64 CPU (Work in progress)
Contributions:87 commits, 78 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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