I’m an easy-going person who asks the hard questions.

I am a technologist. My daily job is in IC validation. My passion is efficiency.

My career includes engineering positions at Western Digital, Micron, and a few small businesses. Recently, I had a revelation that the world doesn’t lack one or two IC designers or software developers. I’d rather do something radically innovative, generation zero technology. It was a surreal and chaotic moment I take as the quarter-life crisis. So I feel like going back to graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 to hopefully find my passion.

Having worked in Idaho for four years, one day I found out I don’t have an objective anymore. I sometimes panic about that. Then I realize it’s really OK if I don’t have any good ol’ mission. It keeps me open-minded that way. However, my thoughts slowly gravitate towards enhancing efficiency. I’ve meditated on the following questions a lot:

1) It’s always those few timing parameters in IC that cause timing skews. Can we use machine learning to analyze the pattern and feedback to the EDA?

2) Do you know we’re most creative when not sober (sleepy, high, drunk, etc)? But your lavish creativity doesn’t mean shit while you look like shit and nothing records it. Maybe it’s time to develop a system that extracts, analyzes, and stores your ideas and thought processes when you’re drunk/high/in the dream. It requires good understanding of brain and its interface with machines.

3) I’ve always wanted to talk to the dead, not because I’m insane but the deceased carry good stories, lessons, and historical meanings along with them. I miss talking with my mom who passed away in 2015, or debating a few things with my ancestors. Could really incorporate image processing + NLP + remnants of their personal writings and develop a digital photo frame, like the one along the stairway in Harry Potter.

Unlike most people claiming on their personal website that they are ALWAYS eager to learn , I don’t always feel like learning. I discern what actually matters and constitutes my visions, and do what I think is important. And I easily substitute learning with wandering in the woods, beach volleyball, swimming, and Age of Empire III.

I am a sushi wakitta (脇板),a fervent dwarven cleric, and do a bit of consulting on the side.