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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.
Mitali
PhD Student
IIIT Delhi
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Mitali is a PhD student at Advanced Multicore Systems (AMS) lab, IIIT Delhi. She holds a gold medal in both Bachelor’s and Master's degrees. Her research interests include heterogeneous systems architectures and hardware security. She also works on designing efficient communication platforms for heterogeneous multi-core systems. She is currently focusing on design space optimization and security analysis of accelerator-rich heterogeneous system-on-chips (ArSoCs). Her recent works on energy-optimization of ArSoCs and SoC security were published in premier journals like TODAES'20 and TETC'21. She has published 1 book chapter and contributed to research works published in conferences including ASAP'18, ISCAS'18, ISVLSI'18, IGSC'18, ISCAS'20. She has experience of almost a year in academia as a lecturer and a research associate.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, 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 Architecture
Charu
PhD Candidate
Northeastern University
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Charu Kalra is a PhD student in the Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. She is part of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research (NUCAR) group under the direction of Prof. David Kaeli. Her research interests include GPU compilers, software reliability, machine learning, workload characterization, and performance evaluation of GPU systems. Her PhD thesis focuses on design and evaluation of compiler-based techniques to predict and improve reliability of GPU applications. In 2014, Charu was featured on NVIDIA's 'Women Who CUDA' list. She has also pursued internships at AMD and AMD Research in the past.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Dependable Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level ParallelismAmrita Mazumdar
Research Scientist
NVIDIA Research
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Amrita Mazumdar is a researcher at NVIDIA Research, working on topics at the intersection of graphics and video with computer systems and architecture. She received her PhD in Computer Science in May 2020 from the University of Washington, where she was advised by Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin. Her research interests are in computer systems and architecture for emerging visual computing workloads (e.g., VR and video analytics). Mazumdar’s work has resulted in performance improvements for custom hardware accelerators, storage systems, and data management systems. She received her MS (2017) from the University of Washington, and her BS (2014) from Columbia University. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mazumdar founded a startup based on her PhD work, and has worked at Facebook, Oculus Research and IBM, as well as in collaboration with Google Research.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Evaluation and Measurement Of Real SystemsInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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