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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 wicarch-chair@acm.org
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.
Li-Shiuan Peh
Professor
National University of Singapore
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Peh Li Shiuan joins NUS as Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in September 2016. Previously, she was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and was on the faculty of MIT since 2009. She was also the Associate Director for Outreach of the Singapore-MIT Alliance of Research & Technology (SMART). Prior to MIT, she was on the faculty of Princeton University from 2002. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2001, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore in 1995. Her research focuses on networked computing, in many-core chips as well as mobile wireless systems. She was awarded the IEEE Fellow in 2017, NRF Returning Singaporean Scientist Award in 2016, ACM Distinguished Scientist Award in 2011, MICRO Hall of Fame in 2011, CRA Anita Borg Early Career Award in 2007, Sloan Research Fellowship in 2006, and the NSF CAREER award in 2003.
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, Multiprocessor Systems
Bahar Asgari
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
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Bahar Asgari is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Collage Park with a joint appointment in UMIACS. Before joining UMD in August 2022, she spent a year working at Google on its Systems and Services Infrastructure team. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2021, where she was advised by Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Dr. Hyesoon Kim. Bahar’s research interests include but are not limited to domain-specific architecture design, near memory processing, and reconfigurable computing. Her proposed low-cost hardware accelerators and hardware/software co-optimization that deal with essential challenges of sparse problems contribute to a widespread application domain from machine learning to scientific computing.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture
Reena Panda
CPU Performance Architect
Apple
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I work as a performance architect in the CPU design team at Apple. Prior to joining Apple, I have completed my PhD in computer architecture from University of Texas at Austin. My research interests include computer architecture and benchmarking, hardware/software co-design, machine learning accelerators.
Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Akanksha Jain
Research Engineer
Arm Research
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Akanksha Jain received her PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in December 2016 and is currently a Researcher at Arm Research. Her research interests are in computer architecture, with a particular focus on the memory system and on using machine learning techniques to improve the design of memory system optimizations. Her work has been recognized with a Best Paper Nomination at MICRO 2013, a Top Picks Honorable Mention at ISCA 2016, and the first place award at the Cache Replacement Championship in 2017.
Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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