Jike Chong is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley. He started his graduate studies in 2004 and joined the MESCAL group in 2005. The group later focused its research on parallel applications, libraries, languages, algorithms, and systems, and renamed itself the PALLAS group as part of the Parallel Computing Lab. His current research interest is in developing application frameworks to help application domain experts more effectively utilize highly parallel computation platforms. Specifically, he is looking at machine learning 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.