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Personal Details

Name: Helen He (preferred name)

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Year in Cornell & Expected graduation date: Sophomore, expected graduation Spring 2026

Relevant classes: CU Boulder: CSCI 2270 Data Structures, ECEN 2350 Digital Logic

Interested in continuing research during the summer? Yes

Expertise (languages/frameworks/etc.): C/C++, Golang, some amount of computer architecture knowledge

Research

When do you want to do research? Extracurricular during this semester, subject to change in the future. (Researchers can get involved during the semester as an "extracurricular", equivalent to a 3-4 credit class, or get more involved over the summer as a full-time job.)

What is exciting to you about research? I'm better at doing work when there's an established goal set for me, and I enjoy the process of learning something new and trying to apply it. In terms of software research, I also like that there's not as much pressure to finish quickly, so I can experiment and try to improve its quality. I'd like to narrow down what specifically I'd like to do during grad school, and hopefully get some inspiration for my future career.

What kind of research do you want to do? I don't know, but I think what CAPRA purports to do is very interesting.

Background

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Was there a paper that particularly excited you? This summer I had to read quite a few papers (see below), but I think this one was very interesting in concept: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3575693.3575710

Otherwise, this summary paper was very interesting to me in what it was trying to do, and how it created a novel result even despite being a summary paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/canella

Which of the current research projects would you be interested in working on and why? The graphics programming / accelerator generation projects. Computer vision isn't something I'm super interested in, but I think ASICS/FPGAs are cool and I'd love to learn more about then!!

Anything else you want to tell us about yourself? I'm a transfer student, and also early in my undergraduate education, so I hope that that my coursework isn't as strong is balanced with these two factors.

The past summer I was working with Dr. Tamara Lehman on software to test for Spectre vulnerabilities on a native Linux installation or on the gem5 processor simulator. Deliverables for that project can be found here. Otherwise, in high school, I also completed a research project about the rope and gap buffer data structures for my IB diploma. I have some experience with C, C++, and Golang.

Attach a CV/Resumé Go to here. Apologies for the conflicting name, gender change and working around family constraints is challenging.

cucapra / undergrad-research

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Personal Details

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