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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.
Kavya Sreedhar
Graduate Student
Stanford University
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I am a fifth-year PhD student in electrical engineering at Stanford advised by Mark Horowitz. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Business, Economics, and Management from Caltech in 2019 and my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 2021. My research is supported by the Quad Fellowship (2023 to 2024) and Stanford's Knight-Hennessy Graduate Fellowship (2019 to 2022).
I am broadly interested in hardware design for cryptography and machine learning applications. I am curious about the security implications of enabling faster execution of cryptographic protocols and worked on designing a fast extended GCD algorithm and accelerator for constant-time modular inversion and verifiable delay functions. On the machine learning side, I am working on dynamically adapting the execution of state-of-the-art models for use in real-time systems and am working on accelerating dynamic transformer models for computer vision in an ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA. I previously worked on building a flexible memory generator as part of an agile software-hardware co-design flow with Stanford's Agile Hardware (AHA) Project. As part of my research, I have worked on taping out chips in SKY130nm, TSMC16nm, and GF12nm. During the summer, I have interned with Meta Reality Labs, NVIDIA's Architecture Research Group, Apple, Microsoft, and Intel.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture
Hoda Naghibijouybari
Assistant Professor
Binghamton University
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Hoda Naghibijouybari is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Binghamton University. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Riverside in 2020, working with Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. Her primary research interests are in the area of computer architecture, and security. Her current research focuses on architecture support for security, microarchitectural attacks, GPU security, and heterogeneous systems. Her research has resulted in the discovery of new attacks that have been disclosed to GPU companies and received coverage from technical news outlets. Her paper on GPU security (published in CCS-2018) was selected for Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security in 2019.
Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization
Caroline Trippel
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
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Anne Bracy
Senior Lecturer
Cornell University
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Anne Bracy is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Cornell University. Prior to teaching at Cornell, Dr. Bracy was a Principal Lecturer and Coordinator of Undergraduate Research in Computer Science at Washington University in St Louis. She was also a Research Scientist at the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel in Santa Clara, California.
Dr Bracy received her PhD from University of Pennsylvania for her work on instruction fusion under the supervision of Amir Roth. Prior to her doctoral studies she was a student at Stanford University, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level ParallelismInitiatives
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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