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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.
Neethu Bal
PhD Student
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Personal URL
I'm a doctoral student at the Chalmers University of Technology advised by Prof. Ioannis Sourdis. Formerly, I was a Researcher advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu at ETH Zürich, and Research Assistant to Prof. Trevor E. Carlson at the National University of Singapore. I obtained my engineering master's and bachelor's degrees in 2015 and 2013 respectively from BITS Pilani.
My recent work focuses on exploring near-data computing in the context of GPGPUs and 3D-DRAM architectures. Previously, I have worked on designing and building simulation infrastructures, energy-efficient cache memory architectures, and cache coherence protocols.
Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Nandita Vijaykumar
PhD student
Carnegie Mellon University
Personal URL
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu and Prof. Phil Gibbons. My research focuses on the interaction between programming models, system software, and hardware architecture, and explores how richer cross-layer abstractions can enhance performance, programmability, and portability. I am excited about rethinking the roles played by different levels of the stack in the modern era of rapidly evolving, specialized, and data-centric computing landscapes. During my Ph.D., I have been fortunate to intern at Microsoft Research, Nvidia Research, and Intel Labs. I am currently a visiting student at ETH Zurich.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Sarah Ahmed
Founder/Researcher
ReteFotonica
Personal URL
Photonic chip that utilizes neural network.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Multiprocessor Systems
Bahar Asgari
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
Personal URL
Bahar Asgari is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Collage Park with a joint appointment in UMIACS. Before joining UMD in August 2022, she spent a year working at Google on its Systems and Services Infrastructure team. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2021, where she was advised by Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Dr. Hyesoon Kim. Bahar’s research interests include but are not limited to domain-specific architecture design, near memory processing, and reconfigurable computing. Her proposed low-cost hardware accelerators and hardware/software co-optimization that deal with essential challenges of sparse problems contribute to a widespread application domain from machine learning to scientific computing.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable ArchitectureInitiatives
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