Research interests include energy-efficient computing, hardware-software co-design, near memory processing, non-volatile memory.

I recently finished my Ph.D.

My research interest is in computer architecture.

Natalie Enright Jerger is the Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is currently serving as the Director of the Division of Engineering Scinece at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she received her MSEE and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and 2008, respectively. She received her Bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 2002. She is a recipient of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award in 2012, the 2014 Ontario Professional Engineers Young Engineer Medal recipient and the 2015 Borg Early Career Award winner. She served as the program co-chair of the 7th Network-on-Chip Symposium, as the program chair of the 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture and as program co-chair for the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in 2023. She is currently serving as the ACM SIGARCH Chair. Her current research explores on-chip networks, approximate computing, IoT architectures and machine learning acceleration. She is also passionate about increasing the representation of women in computing, particular in computer architecture. She is the former chair of the organizing committee for the Women in Computer Architecture group (WICARCH). In 2017, she co-authored the second edition of the Computer Architecture Synthesis Lecture on On-Chip Networks with Li-Shiuan Peh and Tushar Krishna. Her research has been supported by NSERC, Intel, CFI, AMD and Qualcomm.

I am a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. My research interests lie in the intersection of Computer Architecture and Computational Genomics. I am a part of Turakhia Lab under the supervision of Professor Yatish Turakhia, where I work on solving computational challenges and developing efficient hardware for genomic data analysis. I completed my undergraduate in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from IIEST Shibpur, West Bengal, India.

As a computer science researcher specializing in computational genomics, I am dedicated to advancing the field through the development of optimized hardware+software accelerated tools. My research focuses on devising fully automated and scalable methods to accelerate error-prone phylogenetic estimation techniques. By doing so, I aim to contribute significantly to evolutionary biology studies and help unravel the complexities of the tree of life. In parallel, I am engaged in a fascinating project leveraging an HLS-based framework to accelerate dynamic programming-based algorithms, mainly focusing on sequence alignment algorithms. This project aims to help bioinformaticians customize their algorithms and port on FPGA with less effort, bringing significant advancements in computational genomics research.