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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.
Toluwanimi Odemuyiwa
PhD Candidate
University of California, Davis
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Angeles G. Navarro
Professor
University of Malaga
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Angeles G. Navarro received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Malaga (Spain) in 2000. She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Malaga. She has been a Research Visiting Scholar in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Technical University of Munich, the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Bristol, and a Research Visitor in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at New York and in Cray Inc at Seattle. She is the author or co-author of more than 80 papers and has served as a program committee member for several High Performance Computing related conferences. Her research interests are in parallel programming models and compilation techniques for heterogeneous and reconfigurable architectures.
Dr. Navarro has been involved in many initiatives to promote women in Computer Science. She is the co-founder of WSARTECO (Women in SARTECO), a community that is part of the Spanish Computer Architecture Scientific Society, which encourages junior and senior women working in the area to increase visibility and to develop a supporting network.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development
Gnanambikai Krishnakumar
Ph.D. candidate
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, advised by Prof. Chester Rebeiro. My research interests are broadly in the area of secure systems design, with a specific focus on micro-architecture level solutions against various attacks against cryptographic implementations, such as cache side-channel attacks. I'm also interested in exploring the applications of AI to help in building a more secure framework. I was one among the 12 candidates across the world to present my research at Lenovo AI Innovation Challenge Event at SuperComputing Conference 2017, Denver, Colorado. I was also one of the three-member team from IIT Madras that won the First Place in the CSAW Embedded Security Challenge 2016. We designed a secure implementation of an OpenRISC processor to detect and prevent buffer overflow attacks.
Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Aishwarya Nagarajan
Product Manager
Google
Personal URL
I’m currently a Product Manager at Google Cloud AI. Previously, I was the lead Product Manager for systems and software at Cerebras Systems, where we built the industry's fastest Deep Learning acceleration solution.
I have an MBA from the University of Texas-McCombs School of Business, where I was a Venture Fellow at BuildGroup and Mercury Fund; here I gained hands-on experience in developing investment themes, conducting due diligence, valuation, and assisting portfolio companies, and worked with internal data science teams to conceive and deploy machine learning projects at scale.
Prior to my MBA, I received a Masters' in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held leadership positions within product and research groups within the smartphone industry (Qualcomm, Samsung R&D) as a computer architect.
I was fortunate to witness the explosive growth of the smartphone and tablet markets first-hand and was a member of high visibility + growth teams that collectively delivered over 1 Billion chips to users.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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