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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.
Miriam Leeser
Professor
Northeastern University
Personal URL
My main research focus is in hardware accelerators, especially FPGAs. I have done research in floating point implementations, unsupervised learning, medical imaging, and privacy preserving data processing. At Northeastern I am head of the Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory and a member of the Computer Engineering group. Throughout my career, I have been funded by both government agencies and companies, including AMD, DARPA, NSF, Google, and MathWorks. I am the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award and a Charter Member of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program. My current research focus is on FPGAs in the data center and FPGAs directly attached to the network.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Diksha Moolchandani
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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I am currently a Ph.D. Research Scholar with the School of IT, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
My current research interests span the areas of architecture design and acceleration techniques for computer vision and image processing applications, designing convolutional neural network accelerators, and machine learning applications to computer architecture.
Tali Moreshet
Master Lecturer
Boston University
Personal URL
Research interests include energy-efficient computing, hardware-software co-design, near memory processing, non-volatile memory.
Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Lishan Yang
Assistant Professor
George Mason University, Department of Computer Science
Personal URL
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. My research interest mainly falls in system reliability and GPU architecture, including the reliable operation of GPUs, non-conventional sensors, autonomous driving systems, and neural networks.
Dependable ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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Join Our Slack Channel
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 wicarch-chair@acm.org.
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