Elam Day-friedland
Graduate Student Researcher
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolElam Day-friedland is a graduate student researcher in EECS at MIT with six years of experience building hardware-software systems and developer tools. Based in Berkeley, they focus on composable abstractions for efficient hardware and have hands-on tapeout experience across GlobalFoundries 45SPCLO, Intel 16nm, and Skywater 130nm from work at Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Their internships at Databricks, Amazon Lab126, and Altera combined systems software, cloud infrastructure, and DSP/ML fabric design, reflecting a rare cross-domain fluency between silicon and software. An avid tools enthusiast and amateur Emacs plugin developer, Elam publishes projects at elam.day and brings a practical maker’s mindset to research. They’ve also led inclusive student communities as chair of the UC Berkeley IEEE Student Branch, signaling strength in mentorship and technical leadership.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPhD EECS, PhD EECS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (39)
simulation10
hardware-designs10
superscalar10
risc-v10
photonics10
rocket10
hardware10
mems10
soc10
chisel10
klayout10
agile10
eda9
python9
cad9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
T3chy/ditaqm
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
A user-focused ecosystem for low cost, distributed, and open source air quality sampling
Contributions:5 PRs, 213 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
air-qualityairecosystemfocusedlow-cost
elamdf/hammer
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
Hammer: Highly Agile Masks Made Effortlessly from RTL
Contributions:4 PRs, 111 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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