Yangyu Chen
Silicon Validation Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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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
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.87 - Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.87 - Magna Cum Laude at University of WashingtonMaster's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
c1710
compiler-optimization10
risc-v10
c1110
gcc10
assembly8
assembler8
assemble8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
cyyself/linux
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:75 pushes, 46 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
CQU-CS-LABs/CO-lab-docs-CQU
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
重庆大学硬件综合设计课程实验文档
Contributions:1 review, 78 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
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