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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.
Catherine Easdon
PhD Student
Graz University of Tehnology
Personal URL
I'm a PhD student researching microarchitectural security and side-channel attacks in the CoreSec group at the IAIK, Graz University of Technology. Developing microarchitectural attacks and countermeasures has exposed me to many subfields of computer architecture. I'm particularly interested in ISA design and instruction decoding, the 'conflict' between energy efficiency and security, and whether we can rearchitect the CPU and the memory subsystem to reduce this conflict.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Jiwon Choe
PhD student
Brown University
Personal URL
Hi! I am a 3rd year PhD student in the Computer Science department at Brown University, co-advised by professors Iris Bahar and Maurice Herlihy.
My research interests are at the intersection of computer architecture and concurrent computing. I am particularly interested in the hardware-software co-design of concurrent data structures and algorithms with emerging memory technologies, such as compute-capable memory or non-volatile memory.
Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Sabrina Neuman
Assistant Professor
Boston University
Personal URL
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
Mitali
PhD Student
IIIT Delhi
Personal URL
Mitali is a PhD student at Advanced Multicore Systems (AMS) lab, IIIT Delhi. She holds a gold medal in both Bachelor’s and Master's degrees. Her research interests include heterogeneous systems architectures and hardware security. She also works on designing efficient communication platforms for heterogeneous multi-core systems. She is currently focusing on design space optimization and security analysis of accelerator-rich heterogeneous system-on-chips (ArSoCs). Her recent works on energy-optimization of ArSoCs and SoC security were published in premier journals like TODAES'20 and TETC'21. She has published 1 book chapter and contributed to research works published in conferences including ASAP'18, ISCAS'18, ISVLSI'18, IGSC'18, ISCAS'20. She has experience of almost a year in academia as a lecturer and a research associate.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, 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.
If you need assistance in joining our mailing list or slack channel, please send email to wicarch-chair@acm.org.
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