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Mission
Women in Computer Architecture (WICARCH) is designed to create a community for women studying and working in the field of computer architecture. Our goal is to promote women in computer architecture and increase visibility for their research and development contributions. We welcome participation from all women including students, post docs, industry researchers and developers and faculty members. To be listed in our directory, please click here.
Profiles of WICArch
The mission of this section is to profile women in computer architecture across many walks of our field, from [junior, senior] x [industry, academia].
If you would like to be profiled, would like to nominate someone to be profiled, or would like to write a profile, please let us know by [email protected]
Mengjia Yan
Dr. Mengjia Yan is undoubtedly one of the most delightful people you will ever meet – smart, positive, exceedingly wise beyond her years, and the kind of person who can turn a frown upside down. She was paired with me as a mentee at ISCA 2018, but I genuinely think that it is I who have benefited from the relationship. These days, she is a new assistant professor at MIT, having recently completed her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.
WICArch Directory
We actively maintain a list of women working in the field of computer architecture. The goal of this list is many-fold. First, the list services as a resource for program chairs and conference organizers to identify women to serve in key technical roles such as keynote, panels and program committees. Second, the list is designed to foster community and help women connect with other women in computer architecture. This list can be used by current and potential graduate students to find advisors and mentors. Four profiles, selected randomly, are shown below. We encourage you to browse the full directory.
Suchita Pati
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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My research interests are in Computer Architecture and Systems and my current research focuses on optimizing GPU architectures for Deep Learning applications, specifically Recurrent Neural Networks. I have been a part of the effort to augment GPGPU-Sim, a widely used GPU simulator, to execute Deep Learning kernels written using NVIDIA's cuDNN and cuBLAS libraries. My research advisor is Prof. Matthew D. Sinclair.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies
Darya
Graduate Student
Univeristy of Rochester
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Darya Mikhailenko is pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester under the supervision of Prof. Engin Ipek. Her interests cover areas of energy-efficient computer architectures, machine learning for computer vision applications, memory management, accelerators, and architecture modeling for emerging technologies. Darya worked as a research assistant at Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory (Purdue University, U.S.A.) and Bioinspired Microelectronics Systems Laboratory (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) on the implementation of brain-computer architecture to actualize deep neural networks. Her recent work was dedicated to techniques to minimize data movement energy by exploiting asymmetric on- and off-chip interconnects. Currently, she researches microarchitecture level optimizations for AR/VR applications.
Darya is looking for internships in the field of AR/VR related but not limited to computer architecture and machine learning algorithms.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Xiaoxiao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Princeton University
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Hi, I am Xiaoxiao (Sia) Li. Now I am a postdoc in the CS department at Princeton. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kai Li and Prof. Olga Troyanskaya. My current research has been focused on the interdisciplinary field of Machine Learning, Model Interpretability, Medical Data Analysis, and System Privacy. In 2020, I received my Ph.D. degree at Yale University, where I was a member of Image Processing and Analysis Group(IPAG), under the supervision of Prof. James Duncan.
Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems
Reetuparna Das
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
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Reetu Das is an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan. Prior to this, she was a research scientist at Intel Labs, and the researcher-in-residence for the Center for Future Architectures Research. She received her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Some of her recent projects include in-memory architectures, fine-grain heterogeneous core architectures for mobile systems, and low-power scalable interconnects for kilo-core processors. Her research program has been funded by National Science Foundation, the Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR), Semiconductor Research Corporation and Intel Corporation. Reetu is an expert in computer architecture. She has authored over 45 papers, filed 7 patents and served on over 20 technical program committees. She has served as a track chair for Design Automation Conference for two consecutive years. Her research has been recognized by several awards. She has received outstanding research and teaching assistantship awards at Pennsylvania State University, an IEEE Top Picks award, an NSF CAREER award, CRA-W Borg Early Career Award, IEEE/ACM MICRO Hall of Fame award and was recently inducted to ISCA Hall of Fame. Her recent work on in-memory design named Compute Caches received the best Demo award in C-FAR and was selected from 50 projects from leading University research groups. She also serves as the CEO of a precision medicine start-up, Sequal Inc.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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We offer an informal mentoring program through our slack channel (wicarch.slack.com). Women at all career stages are encouraged to join. The mentoring program provides an easy way to connect with other women and receive advice on a wide range of career and personal issues.
If you need assistance in joining our mailing list or slack channel, please send email to [email protected].
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