Jike Chong is a graduate researcher in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley. He started his academic career in 2004, and joined the MESCAL group in 2005. His current research interest is the exploitation of communication and computation pattern across application domains to efficiently map concurrent applications onto parallel platforms. Specifically, he is looking at advanced media applications and computational finance applications.

He got his M.S. (2001) and B.S. (2001) of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. From 2001 to 2004, he was part of the core logic team that developed the UltraSPARC T series (Niagara) CPU, an 8-core high performance server microprocessor, at Sun Microsystems Inc, in Austin, Texas.

In his spare time, he volunteers for the Engineering Futures program of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. He is a certified Engineer Futures Facilitator, and frequently travels around United States to present people skill workshops to university students.

For hobbies, he is an avid photographer, an enthusiastic ballroom dancer, and plays and performs the Chinese Zither, or Zheng, an ancient Chinese musical instrument.