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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.
Rujia Wang
Assistant Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Rujia Wang joined Illinois Institute of Technology in Fall 2018. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S degree from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.E. from Zhejiang University. Her research experience spans across multiple areas in computer engineering, including novel memory architecture, secure computing architecture, system reliability, and high-performance computing, and her work has been published in top conferences in computer architecture area.
Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Dependable Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Sayeh Sharify
PhD student
University of Toronto
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Sayeh Sharify received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2013, and her M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toronto in 2015, where she is currently a third year Ph.D. student. Her research interests include computer architecture, machine learning, embedded systems, and reconfigurable computing. She is currently working on designing hardware accelerators for machine learning algorithms.
Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture
Alexandra Angerd
PhD Student
Chalmers University of Technology
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I am a PhD Student at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden under the guidance of Professor Per Stenström. My research focuses on GPU architectures for approximate computing systems.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Karin Strauss
Senior Principal Researcher Manager
Microsoft Research
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Karin Strauss is a senior principal research manager at Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research) and an affiliate full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cs.washington.edu/) at University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/). Her research lies at the intersection of computer architecture, systems, and biology. Her work includes hardware accelerators for machine learning, emerging memory technologies, and the use of biotechnology to the benefit of the IT industry. Lately, her focus has been on creating an end-to-end system that stores digital data in synthetic DNA, for which she was named one of the 2016 “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company. Along with Luis Ceze, she has recently received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for their work on DNA data storage. The DNA data storage project has also been chosen as “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science in 2016, one of the "Top 10 Emerging Technologies" by the World Economic Forum in 2019, and highlighted by influential publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, and Scientific American. Karin received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, 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.
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