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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.

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
Radha Venkatagiri
PhD Candidate
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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I am a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Prof Sarita Adve. My research interests include Error-Efficient Computing, Approximate Computing, Hardware Resiliency and Software Testing. The overarching theme of my dissertation work is enabling reliable, low-cost and efficient computing by allowing controlled errors in the system. My work aims to explore such opportunities in emerging workloads and build an ecosystem to formalize and automate the application of error-efficient computing techniques. I am among the young researchers selected to participate in the 2018 Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
Before joining UIUC, I was a CPU/Silicon validation engineer at Intel for five years, where I won a divisional award for key contributions in validating new industry standard CPU features. Prior to that I worked for 1.5 years at Qualcomm on the architectural verification of the Snapdragon processor. I completed my MS in ECE from North Carolina State University. My undergraduate degree, in Electrical Engineering, is from the University of Madras in India.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Dependable Architecture
Reena Panda
CPU Performance Architect
Apple
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I work as a performance architect in the CPU design team at Apple. Prior to joining Apple, I have completed my PhD in computer architecture from University of Texas at Austin. My research interests include computer architecture and benchmarking, hardware/software co-design, machine learning accelerators.
Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Akshitha Sriraman
Graduate Student
University of Michigan
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Computer architecture and software systems with special emphasis on multiprocessor and multicore systems, data center architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.
Datacenter-Scale ComputingInitiatives
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