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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.
Hai “Helen” Li
Associate Professor
Duke University
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Hai “Helen” Li is currently Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University, USA. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA. Her current research interests include memory design and architecture, neuromorphic architecture for brain-inspired computing systems, and architecture/circuit/device cross-layer optimization for low power and high performance. Dr. Li is a distinguished member of ACM, a distinguished speaker of ACM (2017-2020), and a distinguished lecture of IEEE CAS society (2018-2019).
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Yasuko Eckert
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
AMD Research
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Yasuko Eckert is a Sr. Member of Technical Staff at AMD Research and an IEEE Senior Member. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and 2011, respectively. She received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Her research interests include SoC- and package-level architectural optimizations, 3D integration, energy-efficient computing, and microarchitecture designs. She is currently serving as the Tutorial/Workshop Co-chair of the 51st International Symposium on Microarchitecture, as well as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS). She has served on the Technical Program Committees of MICRO, HPCA, PACT, ISLPED, and ICCD. She holds more than 25 U.S. patents.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Itir Akgun
Senior Systems Engineer
Qualcomm
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I am currently a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm working on mobile SoC performance analysis.
I received my PhD in 2020 from the ECE department of University of California, Santa Barbara under the guidance of Prof. Yuan Xie, and my Master's degree in 2015. I completed my undergraduate studies in the ECE department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. My PhD research explores the design space of the memory fabric in memory-centric system architectures, given the emerging memory technologies and integration trends, to identify bottlenecks and trade-offs and proposes scalable solutions.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Xiaochen Guo
Assistant Professor
Lehigh University
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Dr. Guo is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Dr. Guo received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2015, and B.S. degree from Beihang University in 2009. Dr. Guo's research interests are in the broad area of computer architecture, with an emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies to build energy-efficient architectures. She received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship twice. Dr. Guo is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing Sciences Research Pathways Fellowship.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, 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.
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