Yuka Ikarashi is arriving to Cornell Tech in 2027, as an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Ikarashi’s research focuses on compilers and programming languages for high-performance computing. She is the creator of the Exo programming language for writing high-performance code on hardware accelerators. Ikarashi has received the Quad Fellowship, Masason Foundation Fellowship, Funai Foundation Fellowship, ML and Systems Rising Stars Award, and Rising Stars in EECS Award.
She has previously worked at Apple, Amazon, and CERN, applying her research to a range of accelerators and applications. Ikarashi earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her B.S. from the University of Tokyo.