yeabsira hawaz

Senior in EECS at MIT. Kind of like a cat.
tag is usually yhawaz, KD3ANM

starters

I’m a Senior at MIT studying EECS. I currently really enjoy work in the Digital Design and Computer Architecture space. Recently(like late 2025) I've been getting into hardware centered performance engineering in Cuda, and FPGA's for DSP and radio use I think a lot of the work in both these spaces are really neat.

You can contact me at yhawaz@mit.edu , my resume’s here here if you want something this website doesn't convey well.

research/experience

I’ve spent the last ~2.5 years of my life doing research with Prof. Daniel Sanchez on lightweight Network on Chips for hardware accelerators targeting sparse matrices/irregular workloads.

I also spent last summer interning at zeroRisc , a startup working on developing and helping users integrate Opentitan, the first open-source silicon root of trust. I did a lot of the work/development on starting to introduce an AXI IP for opentitan. You can read the blog I wrote while I was there to learn more.

projects

• JazzyDude: A Psoc based Digital Synthesizer

  For my MicroComputer class final project I made a saxophone synth/digital instrument, implemented ADSR, and made it so it could playback jazz standards, all on a PSOC 5LP. Click to learn more :p

• Holoforge: A FPGA 3D Model Viewer

  For my undergrad digital systems class me and my proj partner made a FPGA 3D model viewer that took in camera inputs and rotated/changed the rendering of a 3D model based on them. I had to do some weird AXI Dram stuff, a cool learning experience. Click to learn more :p

• Cache Me Outside: A SuperScalar Processor

  For my advanced architecture class, me and 2 dudes made a SuperScalar processor in BlueSpec, that was about it. It was cool click to learn more.

education/teaching

I’m a Senior in EECS at MIT. I will (95% sure) be returning next year to get my M.ENG in EECS with a concentration in Computer Architecture. You can see the classes I took in order of how cool I think they were here.

I’ve also taught a good bit in my time at MIT, I’ve been a Lab Assistant hosting office hours, and helping students debug their work in :

• 6.205: My school’s FPGA/Digital Systems lab Course
• 6.1910: My school’s Computer Architecture Course
• 6.1010: my school’s Python Course

I really enjoy teaching, I hate it when people have weird bugs, but I love getting to basically rant to someone about hardware, and getting PAYED for it.

personal

outside of all this nerd stuff I also enjoy a few things outside of what happens in my computer or whatever board im probbing

• I really enjoy playing Jazz/funk bass, I’m part of a Jazz Combo and it's awesome. I also just love listening to Jazz, as a hardware engineer I feel like most experience and emotions can be summarized by 3 bill evans songs. I deeply enjoy Bill Evans.
• MMA/Kickboxing, I love fighting its so much fun and such a pure form of self expression
• ricing my macos, I don’t do much but I do spend a lot of fun time tinkering with my hw/sw setup as opposed to raw dogging vs code. Definitely not a purist as I use lazyvim, but I’m trying to fix that. UPDATE: i now daily drive arch and use bare bones vim with a 5 line vimrc
• reading manga, I deeply enjoy Blue Period and Red Blue, their some of my favorite pieces of media by far. Blue giant is also up there
• dJing/electronic dance music, I really enjoy mixing EDM/UKG/jersey club songs, i have mixes, maybe they’re linked here, maybe they’re not

cats

I do not currently own any cats, this section is for when I eventually adopt one. I would like the record to show that I love cats.