Computer Architecture Podcast

Dr. Babak Falsafi is a Professor at EPFL, the founding president of the Swiss Data Center Efficiency Association, and the founder of EcoCloud, an academic consortium focused on sustainable IT. His contributions to computer architecture include the invention of spatial and temporal memory streaming (SMS prefetchers) found in ARM cores and laying the groundwork for fence speculation by defining memory ordering requirements in modern ...

Dr. Caroline Trippel is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University. Caroline's research operates at the critical intersection of hardware and software, focusing on developing high-assurance computer architectures. Her work tackles the challenge of ensuring that complex hardware designs are correct and secure. She has pioneered automated tools that bridge the gap betw...

Dr. Ricardo Bianchini is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Azure, where he leads the team responsible for managing Azure’s compute workload, server capacity, and datacenter infrastructure with a strong focus on efficiency and sustainability.  Before joining Azure, Ricardo led the Systems Research Group and the Cloud Efficiency team at Microsoft Research (MSR). He created research projects in power efficie...

Dr. Arkaprava Basu is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, where he mentors students in the Computer Systems Lab. Arka's research focuses on pushing the boundaries of memory management and software reliability for both CPUs and GPUs. His work spans diverse areas, from optimizing memory systems for chiplet-based GPUs to developing innovative techniques to eliminate synchronization bottlenecks in GPU programs. H...

Dr. Dan Sorin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and a co-founder of Realtime Robotics. Dan is widely known for his pioneering work in memory systems. He has co-authored the seminal Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, which has become a foundational resource for students and researchers alike. Dan’s contributions span from developing resilient systems that tolerate hardware fault...

Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor at Harvard University, and Vice President and Co-founder of MLCommons. He has made substantial contributions to mobile and edge computing systems, and played a key role in developing the MLPerf Benchmarks. Vijay has authored the machine learning systems book mlsysbook.ai, as part of his twin passions of education and outreach. He received the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award ...

Dr. Carole-Jean Wu is a Director of AI Research at Meta. She is a founding member and a Vice President of MLCommons – a non-profit organization that aims to accelerate machine learning innovations for the benefits of all. Dr. Wu also serves on the MLCommons Board as a Director, chaired the MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board, and co-chaired for MLPerf Inference. Prior to Meta/Facebook, Dr. Wu was a professor at ASU. She ...

Dr. Karu Sankaralingam is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an entrepeneur, inventor, as well as a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA.  His work has been featured in industry forums of Mentor and Synopsys, and has been covered by the New York Times, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum. He founded the hardware startup SimpleMachines in 2017 which developed chip designs applying dataflow computing to push the limits of AI ...

Dr. Gabriel Loh is a Senior Fellow at AMD Research and Advanced Development. Gabe is known for his contributions to 3D die-stacked architectures, memory organization and caching techniques, and chiplet multicore architectures. His ideas have influenced multiple commercial products and industry standards. He is a recipient of ACM SIGARCH's Maurice Wilkes Award, is a Hall of Fame member for MICRO, HPCA, ISCA, and a recipient of the N...

Dr. Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in the EECS department at MIT. Vivienne is recognized for her leading work on energy-efficient computing systems spanning a wide range of domains: from video compression, to machine learning, robotics and digital health. She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, Edgerton Faculty Award, faculty grants from Google, Facebook and Qualcomm, and a Primetime Engineering Emmy as a member of the ...

This is a special episode to commemorate the 50th anniversary of SIGARCH. We have three leaders from our community who have served as SIGARCH chairs -- Dr. David Patterson, Dr. Norm Jouppi and Dr. Natalie Entright-Jerger -- reflect on the evolution of the computer architecture field as well as our community over half a century, and share their perspectives on opportunities and exciting times ahead.

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Jim Keller is the CTO of Tenstorrent, and a veteran computer architect. Prior to Tenstorrent, he has held roles of Senior Vice President at Intel, Vice President of Autopilot at Tesla, Vice President and Chief Architect at AMD, and at PA Semi which was acquired by Apple. Jim has led multiple successful silicon designs over the decades, from the DEC Alpha processors, to AMD K7/K8/K12, HyperTransport and the AMD Zen family, the Apple...

Dr. Brandon Lucia is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Lucia has made significant contributions to enabling capable and reliable intermittent computing systems, developing techniques that span the hardware-software stack from novel microarchitectures, to programming models and tools. He is a recipient of the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award, the Sloan R...

Dr. Yungang Bao is a professor at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the deputy director of ICT-CAS. Prof. Bao founded the China RISC-V Alliance (CRVA) and serves as the secretary-general of CRVA. His research interests include open-source hardware and agile chip design, datacenter architecture and memory systems. Prof. Bao’s contributions include developing the PARSEC 3.0 benchmark s...

Dr. Todd Austin is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include robust and secure system design, hardware and software verification, and performance analysis tools and techniques. Todd has donned multiple hats, being a senior processor architect at Intel’s Microprocessor Research Labs, a professor at the University of Michigan, serving as the d...

Dr. Sarita Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests span the system stack, including hardware, programming languages, operating systems, and applications. She co-developed the memory consistency models for the C++ and Java programming languages, based on her early work on data-race-free (DRF) models, and has made innovative contributions to ...

Dr. Fred Chong is the Seymour Goodman Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and the chief scientist of SuperTech, a quantum software startup. He is also Lead Principal Investigator for the EPiQC Project, an NSF Expedition in Computing. Previously, Fred received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 and was a faculty member at UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara. Fred has made significant contributions to arch...

Dr. Christina Delimitrou is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University. Prof. Delimitrou has made significant contributions to improving resource efficiency of large-scale datacenters, QoS-aware scheduling and resource management techniques, performance debugging, and cloud security. She received the 2020 IEEE TCCA Young Architect Award for leading research in ML-driven manage...

Dr. Mark D. Hill is a professor emeritus of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and currently a Partner Hardware Architect with Microsoft Azure. He has made numerous contributions to parallel computer system design, memory system design, computer simulation, and more.  He is well known for his advice and collaborative work style, having published papers with 160 different co-authors. He talks to us about cross...