Yu-Ting Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a B.S. degree in computer science, a B.A. degree in economics, and an M.S. degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, HsinTsu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He worked at TSMC as a summer intern in 2005 and at Intel Labs as a summer intern in 2013. His research interests include computer architecture, cluster computing, and bioinformatics in DNA sequencing technologies.