Yufei Ding is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at UCSD and the founder of the PICASSO Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Her research spans domain-specific language design, architecture and compiler optimization, and hardware acceleration. Currently, her work focuses on developing high-performance, energy-efficient, and high-fidelity programming frameworks for emerging technologies, including quantum computing and machine learning. Dr. Ding is a recipient of prestigious honors such as the NSF CAREER Award (2020) and the IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing (2019).