Wan Luan Lee's Website

Research Interests

• Parallel and Heterogeneous computing

• GPU computing

• Design automation

• Graph partitioning

About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Initially, I wanted to create a makeup brand because I love doing makeup and helping people feel confident in themselves. Yet, as I learned more about programming, I found enjoyment in it. I love researching how to make algorithms run faster using parallel computing.

Achievements

Education

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI Aug 2023 — Present
• GPU accelerated regular and hypergraph partitioning
Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Jan 2017 — Aug 2020
• GPA: 3.7/4.0

• Accurately predicted the behavior of molten salt mixtures using molecular simulation

Experiences

Computer Engineering Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW – Madison Aug 2023 — Present
• Designed and implemented a graph partition algorithm which achieves 9x speed up than the state-of-art CPU parallel graph partitioning tools
Summer Internship
Synopsys, Mountain View, CA May 2022 — July 2022
• Conducted performance analysis on the Synopsis timing tool to identify bottlenecks

• Researched opportunities to apply GPU acceleration to the timing calculation

• Replaced heavy calculations with GPU implantation
Software Developer
Secumax Technology, Taipei, Taiwan Sep 2020 — May 2021
• Constructed a SQL database to store and handle application data efficiently and securely

• Utilized QT to create a cross-platform application which allows users to control remote monitors and perform different functionalities such as zoom in and playback

• Implemented a new user interface to improve the user experience
Software Developer Internship
WeCare Insurance Company, Provo, UT Apr 2020 — Aug 2020
• Led a team of three and mentored team progress

• Utilized Selenium in Java script to accomplish website automation

• Reorganized SQL database for easier access
Chemical Engineering Teaching Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Jan 2020 — Apr 2020
• Led a team of three and mentored team progress

• Utilized Selenium in Java script to accomplish website automation

• Reorganized SQL database for easier access
Chemical Engineering Research Assistant
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Sep 2017 — Jan 2020
• Wrote Python and C++ scripts to generate complex formatted files from data

• Utilized bash commands to run molecular simulations on a supercomputer

• Evaluated molten salt structure for nuclear reactors through molecular dynamics simulation

Publications

G-kway: Multilevel GPU-Accelerated k-way Graph Partitioner
Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, California 2024
Wan Luan Lee, Dian-Lun Lin, Tsung-Wei Huang, Shui Jiang, Tsung-Yi Ho, Yibo Lin and Bei Yu