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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.
Sonal Yadav
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology Raipur
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Sonal is a assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Raipur. Prior NIT Raipur, she was postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India from March 2018-2020. She received her M.Tech and PhD degree from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, India. Her PhD dissertation was on Exploration of Efficient Manycore Multiple Networks-on-Chip Architectures. Her research interests lie in improving energy efficiency via power-gating for multiple networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures and self-learning NoC architectures. Her thesis work awarded travel grant in DATE 2019. She is the recipient of the best paper award by TCVLSI in IEEE-SES 2018. Her PhD work is published in reputed conferences VDAT 2015, VLSI Design 2016, DAC 2019 and journals. She has received multiple recognitions, including PhD Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) Govt. of India and Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture
Aninda Manocha
Member of Technical Staff
Rivos Inc.
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Aninda Manocha received her Ph.D student in Computer Science at Princeton University. She was advised by Professor Margaret Martonosi in the broad area of Computer Architecture. More specifically, she worked on the design of reconfigurable hardware to accelerate a variety of software applications with a focus on the application and compiler interface. She also worked on memory hierarchy designs and operating system techniques tailored to irregular, memory-intensive graph applications. She received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Computer Science from Duke University in 2018. She now works at Rivos.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Lillie Pentecost
PhD Student
Harvard University
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Lillie's general research interests are in specialized hardware and software-hardware co-design, and her current work focuses on enabling efficient deep learning. She received her B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from Colgate University in 2016, and she is currently pursuing her PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University, where she works with David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture
Lisa Hsu
Principal Architect
Microsoft
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I'm broadly interested in computer architecture, particularly memory systems and the management and synchronization of data. I like building whole, balanced systems and understanding how all the pieces are connected, related, and affect each other.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Multiprocessor Systems, 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.
If you need assistance in joining our mailing list or slack channel, please send email to wicarch-chair@acm.org.
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