Yours truly.
hello!
I'm Quan Nguyen. I consider myself many things, but most recently I was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mentored by Professor Daniel Sanchez. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in May 2022.
I focus on accelerating applications that haven't been adequately served by conventional computer architectures. In particular, my dissertation research has shown that irregular applications (those with data-dependent memory accesses, unpredictable branches) can be efficiently accelerated through fine-grain pipeline parallelism. With that insight, I explored solutions from the core microarchitecture level to specialized spatial architectures.
In what time remains I develop a place-and-route tool for Minecraft circuits, maintain (and ride) vintage Schwinn bicycles, shoot film, and dance the Lindy Hop.
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recent news
- In January 2024, I've migrated my site to my own domain.
- In the summer of 2022, I bicycled across America 🚴 🇺🇸
- In May 2022, I defended my Ph.D. thesis and submitted my dissertation?!