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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.
Lauren
Database Architect
Carestream Dental/Georgia Tech
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Database
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture
Ayatallah Elakhras
PhD student
EPFL
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Carole-Jean Wu
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
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I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). I am also the Associate Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Embedded Systems (CES). Before joining ASU, I held a number of industrial internship positions with Intel, IBM, and Google. I am a senior member of both ACM and IEEE.
My research area lies in Computer and System Architectures. In particular, my research interests include high-performance and energy-efficient computer architectures through
- hardware heterogeneity,
- energy harvesting techniques for emerging computing devices,
- temperature and energy management for portable electronics,
- performance characterization, analysis and prediction, and
- memory subsystem designs.
I am the recipient of the 2017 NSF CAREER Award, the 2017 IEEE Young Engineer of the Year Award, the 2014 IEEEE Best of Computer Architecture Letter Award, the 2013 Science Foundation of Arizona Bisgrove Early Career Award, and the 2011-12 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Award. My research has been supported by both industry sources and the National Science Foundation to a level over $1.8 million.
I serve on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture from 2017-19 and am the Program Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2018. I completed my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University.
Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Margaret Martonosi
Professor
Princeton University
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For decades, Moore’s Law and its partner Dennard Scaling have driven technology trends that have enabled exponential performance improvements in computer systems at manageable power dissipation. With the slowing of Moore/Dennard improvements, designers have turned to a range of approaches for extending scaling of computer systems performance and power efficiency. Unfortunately, these scaling gains come at the expense of degraded hardware-software abstraction layers, increased complexity at the hardware-software interface, and increased challenges for software reliability, interoperability, and performance portability. My work explores the way forward for computer systems designers in this “Post-ISA” era of shifting abstractions. My group looks hardware and software design issues for specialization/heterogeneity and methods for formal verification. We are also increasingly focused on the hardware/software systems issues of Quantum Computing.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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