Professor Director, Computer Engineering Division Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Computer Science Northwestern University Also affiliated with Center for Ultra Scale Computing and Information Security (CUCIS) and Center for Engineering and Health
Office: Tech Building, L475 (map to office) Dept. of EECS 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-3118 Phone: (847) 467-1168 Fax: (847) 467-4144 Lab: Tech Building, L458 Phone: (847) 467-4610	Research Interest: Computer Architecture/Microarchitecture My research is at the intersections of computer architecture, computer systems, and manufacturing technologies. Our recent work focuses on incorporating holistic effects into architectural design process (e.g., investigating the impact of architectures on users, utilizing biological information to make architectural decisions, monitoring users and correlating their activities with low-level information), emerging technologies and architectures utilizing them (e.g., novel non-volatile memory devices), and physical-aware architectures (architectures for minimizing the power consumption, reducing operating temperatures, and mitigating the effects of process variations). The best way to learn about my recent work is to browse through the publications in my group (Full list of publications). Graduate Students Advised/Co-advised Begum Birsen Egilmez, PhD Emirhan Poyraz, PhD David Nguyen, PhD Alumni PhD - Majed Valad Beigi, 2019 Thesis title: Thermal-aware Optimizations for Emerging Technologies in 3D-Stacked Chips. Position: University of Chicago - Kaicheng Zhang, (co-advised with S. Ogrenci-Memik), 2017 Thesis title: Thermal-aware Task Management for High Performance Systems. Position: Two Sigma - Matt Schuchhardt, 2015 Thesis title: User-Aware System Design and Optimization. Position: 4C - Benjamin Scholbrock, 2013 Thesis title: User-Centric Computer System Analysis. Position: Intel - Prabhat Kumar (co-advised with Prof. A. Choudhary), 2012 Thesis title: High Performance Data Mining on Heterogeneous Platforms. Position: NVidia - Pan Yan, 2011 Thesis title: Leveraging Nanophotonics in Future Many-core Processors. Position: Technology Department at Globalfoundries - Abhishek Das (co-advised with Prof. A. Choudhary), 2010 Thesis title: Microarchitectural Approaches for Optimizing Power and Profitability in Multicore Processors. Position: Intel - Alex Shye, 2010 Thesis title: Incorporating the End User in Computer Design and Optimization. Position: Qualcomm Research, Bay Area R&D. - Yu Zhang, 2010 Thesis title: Adaptive On-Chip Networks and Their Impact on Processor Architectures. Position: Research and Development Department, Bloomberg L.P. - Serkan Ozdemir, 2009 Thesis Title: Mitigating the Effects of Process Variations through Microarchitectural Techniques. Position: Intel Barcelona Research Center - Berkin Ozisikyilmaz (co-advised with Prof. A. Choudhary), 2009 Thesis title: Analysis, Characterization and Design of Data Mining Applications and Applications to Computer Architecture. Position: NetApp - Arindam Mallik, 2008 Thesis Title: Holistic Computer Architectures based on Application, User, and Process Characteristics. Position: IMEC MS - Ajit M. Hunsur, 2014 Thesis title: Memory Mapping in Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures - Bhargavraj Patel (co-advised with Prof. N. Hardavellas), 2013 Thesis Title: Exploring Compressed Cache to Implement Efficient Hardware Prefetcher for Multicore Processors - Emre Karaman, 2012 Thesis Title: GPU Implementation of Action Potential Cardiac Computer Simulations - Utku Pamuksuz, 2011 Thesis Title: EasyPupil: A Poor Man’s Pupil Dilation Measurement System - Anitha Mohan (co-advised with Prof. S. O. Memik), 2010 Thesis Title: Yield improvement using cache SRAM array supply lowering and selective wordline voltage boosting mechanisms - Matthew Erler (co-advised with Prof. Y. Ismail), 2007 Thesis Title: TAP Cache: Temperature-Aware Placement for Caches - David Nguyen, 2005 Thesis Title: Reconfigurable Architectures For Network Intrusion Detection