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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.
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 Parallelism
Sabrina Neuman
Assistant Professor
Boston University
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Sabrina M. Neuman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. Her research interests are in computer architecture design informed by explicit application-level and domain-specific insights. She is particularly focused on robotics applications because of their heavy computational demands and potential to improve the well-being of individuals in society. She received her S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from MIT, and she was a postdoctoral NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at Harvard University. She is a 2021 EECS Rising Star, and her work on robotics acceleration has received Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks 2022 and IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023. She holds the 2023-2026 Boston University Innovation Career Development Professorship.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems
Rasha Karakchi
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of South Carolina
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Rasha is a postdoctoral researcher at University of South Carolina. Beside, her research work, Rasha is the main instructor of embedded systems and computer architecture courses at Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her primary research area is reconfigurable computing, embedded systems and application-specific architecture, specifically FPGA.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture
Ghazal
Scientist
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
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Dr. Ghazal Tashakor is a scientific staff member affiliated with multiple institutes and universities in Germany and Spain. She obtained her Ph.D. in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and advanced simulation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2019. Her ongoing research endeavors primarily focus on conducting large-scale computer simulations. Additionally, she serves as a core developer in distributed and parallel architecture patterns, ranging from grid computing to data visualization/monitoring, with a specific emphasis on Big Data and advanced hierarchical models. She collaborates with various research centers in Germany, including Fraunhofer and Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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Join Our Slack Channel
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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