Yaozhu Sun

PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
University of Hong Kong

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Curriculum Vitae

I am a PhD student at the University of Hong Kong (香港大學) under the supervision of Prof. Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira. My research revolves around programming languages, especially focusing on the reconciliation between object-oriented and functional programming. I received my Bachelor's degree from Chu Kochen Honors College of Zhejiang University (浙江大学) in 2019. I was an exchange student at Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学) under the supervision of Prof. Hidehiko Masuhara in 2017.

During my undergraduate years, I was the founder of ZJU Apple Club and a member of ZJU Supercomputing Team. I led the development of Qiushichao Mobile for iOS, which has been the most popular campus app at Zhejiang University.

My Chinese name is 孫 耀珠（Sūn Yàozhū）. For your information, it is read as ソン ヨウジュ in Japanese and 손 요주 in Korean, both of which can be romanized as Son Yoju. If you find Chinese romanization hard to read, feel free to pronounce my name in Japanese or Korean style.

Researchdblp

University of Hong Kong » Programming Languages Group

Conducted research on Compositional Programming and created Zord, an in-browser implementation with type-directed operational semantics for its core calculus.

TOPLAS'21

Compositional Programming .
Weixin Zhang, Yaozhu Sun, and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira.
In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Volume 43, 2021.
Distinguished Artifact Award! (This is a journal-first paper published in TOPLAS and presented at ECOOP.)

Tokyo Institute of Technology » Programming Research Group

Conducted research on object-oriented high-performance computing and contributed to Ikra-Ruby, a Ruby Gem for array-based GPU computing, and Ikra-Cpp, a C++/CUDA EDSL for OOP with the structure-of-arrays memory layout.

ARRAY'18

Inner Array Inlining for Structure of Arrays Layout .
Matthias Springer, Yaozhu Sun, and Hidehiko Masuhara.
In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages, and Compilers for Array Programming (co-located with PLDI), 19 June 2018.

Internships

Microsoft Research Asia » Machine Learning Group » Research Intern

Apr 2019 - July 2019

Huawei 2012 Labs » Compilers and Programming Languages Lab » Software Engineering Intern

July 2018 - Aug 2018

Awards

• Distinguished Artifact Award, European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, July 2021.
• First Prize, ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge, May 2018.
• Second Prize, Mobile Application Innovation Contest, China Collegiate Computing Contest, Sept 2016.
• Bronze Award (Optimization Track), Parallel Application Challenge, China, Nov 2015.
• First Prize (Jiangsu Province), National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, China, Dec 2012.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Design and Analysis of Algorithms (COMP3250A), University of Hong Kong, Spring 2021.
• Teaching Assistant, Programming Principle (21190650), Zhejiang University, Autumn 2018.