Elton PJ Shih ㋡

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Computer Systems Lab at Cornell University, advised by Christopher Batten. I work on hardware-software co-design for domain-specific architectures.

My research explores how to build specialized systems that balance performance with programmability. Recent work includes accelerator microarchitecture for computational biology (MICRO’25), accelerating pangenome workloads on manycore systems, and heterogeneous code generation for programmable dataplanes.

Previously, I was at UNSW Sydney and Audinate, working on FPGA-accelerated genomics and embedded networking systems.

I am currently looking for hw-sw co-design and systems internships for summer 2026.