Jike Chong

Bio:

Jike Chong is a graduate researcher at Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of University of California, Berkeley. He started his academic career in 2004, and joined the MESCAL group in 2005. His current research interest is design automation of multimedia applications at the embedded system level. Specifically, he is looking at design automation of H.264 applications on programmable embedded platforms.

Jike holds a M.S. (2001) and B.S. (2001) of Electrical and Computer Engineer from Carnegie Mellon University. From 2001 to 2004, he worked on developing high performance server microprocessor at Sun Microsystems Inc, in Austin, TX. He was part of the core logic team that developed the UltraSPARC T series (Niagara) CPU.

In his spare time, Jike volunteers for the Engineering Futures program of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. He is a certified Engineer Futures Facilitator, and frequently travels around United States to present people skill workshops to college students.

For hobbies, Jike is an avid photographer, an enthusiastic ballroom dancer, and plays and performs the Chinese Zither, or Zheng, an ancient Chinese musical instrument.