- 😄 Pronunciation: "ah-eh"
- 🌱 Currently distracted by cooking Chinese foods, baking cheesecakes, and pretending to learn Chinese — 你好！
- My job? Hmm, I just spend my days doing whatever I like.
- 2E, ASD, ADHD — which probably explains the rest.
- 💻 I somehow ended up between too many fields:
- Computer Architecture & Processor Design
- Programming Languages & Compilers
- Parallel & High-Performance Computing
- Operating Systems & Runtimes
- Graphics, Game Engines & Embedded Systems
- AI Accelerator & Compiler Design
- ⛩ Religion:
- Shrine Shinto
- 🍳 Cooking
- Italian: Aglio Olio, Bolognese, Pizza Margherita, mi piacciono le erbe aromatiche italiane
- Chinese: 棒棒鶏, 担担麺, 麻婆豆腐, 回鍋肉, 我不仅注重味道，也重视香气
- French: I use techniques like roux and sauces, même si ce n'est pas avec des ingrédients du terroir français!
- Indian: Spice Curry, my favorite is south Indian fish curry
- Thai: Green Curry
- Vietnamese: Bánh Mì, I actually like Bún Chả Giò the most, but I can't get Bún here
- Korean: 비빔밥, 볶음밥, 돼지고기 김치볶음, I like kimchi and sesame oil
- Japanese: Oyakodon, Udon, Soba, Okonomiyaki, I like Dashi recipe, but actually I'm not used to central cuisines as born in Hokkaido
- Ramen: Hakata Tonkotsu, Sapporo Miso, Asahikawa Shoyu, Hakodate Shio, everything in 10 minutes
- Sweets: Basque Cheesecake, Chocolate Gâteau, Tarta de Santiago, I bake whenever I have guests!
- British: Scones, I throw a tea party when guests come over, I like Wedgewood ware and Fortnum & Mason leaf
- Fun fact is I can recreate flavors I ate at restaurants lol
- 📫 Contact
- Discord: awemorris
- Mail: awe@noctvm.io
- 2026– — Suika3: a 2D game / visual novel engine that probably doesn't need to exist
- 2025– — NPU: Designing an NPU and its compiler, apparently as chief architect (R&D)
- 2024–2025 — PS5 BIOS: Something involving a PlayStation boot firmware at SIE (R&D)
- 2022–2024 — Satellite AI: Apparently I was the only one who didn't fall for the Russian spy — though at the time my colleagues called me a conspiracy theorist (Research)
- 2017–2024 — FPGA AI: FPGA stuff for AI, some Apache TVM patches (Research)
- 2015–2019 — Process Mining: told companies what they were doing wrong (Research & Consultant)
- 2015 — Project Colombo: Sent to Sri Lanka to organize a sightseeing tour and a banquet for scholars (Research)
- 2014 — Project HCMC: Sent to Vietnam to learn everything about software development at once (Development)
- 2012–2014 — Model-based Testing: Tried to make software testing less painful (Research)
- 2010–2012 — Parallelizing Javac: Made Java automatically parallelize itself (Master's thesis)
- 2006–2012 — Web crawlers of questionable ambition, mostly targeted HR & recruitment data (Development)
- 2004–2006 — Mobile apps back when phones had 10 keys (Development)
- 2000–2004 — Some old freeware
- Born in a poor fisherman's village in Japan, weeds around house were also food
- Got an old computer at 11, studied CS at a nearby town library, and finished it by 14
- Wasn't good at regular schoolwork, couldn't get into any uni at 17
- Wrote Software-DSM at 18, sent it to Waseda uni, which caused special exam-exempt
- Lived in Wakeijuku, an old dormitory once home to Haruki Murakami, where my Tokyo accent was slowly patched into existence
- Lately, I've been volunteering to teach programming to local children and adults looking for work
- I'm living alone with two furry friends in a small house in Tokyo, working from home