Faculty
Scott Mahlke Comrade Scott busily directs our research group and does so with an IRON FIST!

Graduate Students
Yunjie Pan Comrade Yunjie is currently working on energy-efficient neural network architecture.	Jonathan Bailey Comrade Jonathan is currently working on throughput processors and is also interested in domain-specialized and heterogeneous architectures.
Salar Latifi Comrade Salar's current research is about quality assurance and reliability of neural networks.	Armand Behroozi Comrade Armand works on systems that reconfigure during runtime to fit their data's needs.

Ph.D. Graduates

Ze Zhang Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2022 Thesis: Compiler Support for Robust and High Performance Autonomous Driving Environments First employment: Meta Sunghyun Park Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2021 Thesis: Compiler Auto-tuning for Code Optimization First employment: OctoML Babak Zamirai Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2020 Thesis: Customized Systems of Deep Neural Networks for Energy Efficiency First employment: Nvidia Jiecao Yu Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2019 Thesis: Efficient Deep Neural Network Computation on Processors First employment: Meta John Kloosterman Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2018 Thesis: Data Resource Management in Throughput Processors First employment: Lecturer at University of Michigan Anoushe Jamshidi Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016 Thesis: Accelerating Data Transfer for Throughput Processors First employment: Apple Andrew Lukefahr Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016 Thesis: Composite Cores: Improving Energy Efficiency Through Fine-Grained Heterogeneity First employment: Lecturer at University of Michigan Shruti Padmanabha Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016 Thesis: Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Processor Architectures for General Purpose Applications First employment: Facebook Jason Jong Kyu Park Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016 Thesis: Enabling Efficient Resource Utilization on Multitasking Throughput Processors First employment: Google Gaurav Chadha Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2015 Thesis: Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Asynchronous Programs First employment: Oracle Daya S Khudia Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2015 Thesis: Dependable Computing On Inexact Hardware Through Anomaly Detection First employment: Intel Janghaeng Lee Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2015 Thesis: Virtualizing Data Parallel Systems for Portability, Productivity, and Performance First employment: Intel Ankit Sethia Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2014 Thesis: Dynamic Hardware Resource Management for Efficient Throughput Processing First employment: Research Fellow at University of Michigan Hyoun Kyu Cho Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2014 Thesis: Intelligent Management of Inter-Thread Synchronization Dependencies for Concurrent Programs First employment: Google Mehrzad Samadi Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2014 Thesis: Dynamic Orchestration of Massively Data Parallel Execution First employment: Research Fellow at University of Michigan Yongjun Park Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2013 Thesis: Libra: Achieving Efficient Instruction- and Data- Parallel Execution for Mobile Applications First employment: Intel Research Amin Ansari Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Overcoming Hard-Faults in High-Performance Microprocessors First employment: NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at UIUC Ganesh Dasika Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Power-Efficient Accelerators for High-Performance Applications First employed at: ARM Ltd Shuguang Feng Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Delivering Affordable Fault-tolerance to Commodity Computer Systems First employed at: Northrop Grumman Shantanu Gupta Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Adaptive Architectures for Robust and Efficient Computing First employed at: Intel Research Amir Hormati Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Compiling Stream Applications for Heterogeneous Architectures First employed at: Microsoft Research, Now at: Google Mojtaba Mehrara Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 Thesis: Compiler and Runtime Techniques For Automatic Parallelization of Sequential Applications First employed at: Nvidia, Now at: Facebook Hyunchul Park Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2009 Thesis: Polymorphic Pipeline Array: A Flexible Multicore Accelerator for Mobile Multimedia Applications First employed at: Texas Instruments, Now at: Intel Research Yuan Lin Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Realizing Software Defined Radio - A Study in Designing Mobile Supercomputers First employed at: Cavium Networks, Now at: Media Tek Kevin Fan Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Automatic Design of Efficient Application-centric Architectures First employed at: Parakinetics, Inc., Now at: Google Manjunath Kudlur Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Streamroller : A Unified Compilation and Synthesis Framework for Streaming Applications First employed at: Nvidia Research Hongtao Zhong Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 Thesis: Architectural and Compiler Mechanisms for Accelerating Single Thread Applications on Multicore Processors First employed at: Google Michael Chu Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Cooperative Data and Computation Partitioning for Decentralized Architectures First employed at: Microsoft, Now at: AMD Nathan Clark Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Customizing the Computation Capabilities of Microprocessors First employed at: Georgia Institute of Technology, Now at: Virtu Financial Rajiv Ravindran Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2007 Thesis: Hardware/Software Techniques for Memory Power Optimizations in Embedded processors First employed at: Hewlett Packard, Now at: Tensilica Mikhail Smelyanskiy Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2004 Thesis: Hardware/Software Mechanisms for Increasing Resource Utilization on VLIW/EPIC Processors First employed at: Intel Research

MS Graduates
Pedram Zamirai Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2021 First employed at: SambaNova	Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2020 Continue Ph.D. @ UMich
Hossein Golestani Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2017 Continue Ph.D. @ UMich	Shikai Li Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016 First employed at: Citadel LLC
Griffin Wright Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2012 First employed at: dSPACE, Inc	Po-Chun Hsu Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2011 First employed at: Intel Corporation
Jeff Hao Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2008 First employed at: Google	Steve Lieberman Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2006 First employed at: HSBC
Robert Mullenix Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2006 First employed at: AMD	Pracheeti Nagarkar Masters in Computer Science & Engineering, 2004 First employed at: Microsoft
Aaron Erlandson Masters in Computer Science, 2003 First employed at: Microsoft

Missing in Action

Jason Blome First employed at: Goldman Sachs

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