Announcements

• March 11, 2026
  Ph.D. Defense Congratulations to Dr. Dimitrios Gourounas for succesfully defending his thesis titled “FPGA Acceleration of Large-Scale, Discontinuous Galerkin-Based Wave Simulations”! Dimitris is joining Meta here in Austin.
• September 09, 2025
  Best Student Presentation Award for Alex at SRC TECHCON 2025.
• July 31, 2025
  Best Student Poster Award for James for his poster and paper “Exploring Dendrites in Large-Scale Neuromorphic Architectures” at the ACM International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS).
• May 06, 2025
  Best paper nomination for Dimitris for his paper “HighWave: Large-Scale High-Bandwidth Wave Simulations on FPGAs” at the IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM).
• March 24, 2025
  Ph.D. Defense Congratulations to Dr. Kamyar Mirzazad Barijough for succesfully defending his thesis titled “Real Time Guarantees in Distributed Edge Computing”! Kamyar already joined Google back in 2021.
• November 02, 2024
  Best Paper Award for Alex for his SoK Paper on “Power Side-Channel Malware Detection” at the International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP).
• October 17, 2024
  Ph.D. Defense Congratulations to Dr. Erika (Susy) Alcorta for succesfully defending her thesis titled “Machine Learning-Based Proactive Runtime Management”! Susy will join Ampere Computing this fall.
• March 04, 2024
  Collaboration and joint publications highlighted on Arm’s research blog.
• August 25, 2023
  Congratulations to Erika and Matthew for being awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!
• July 17, 2023
  Outstanding Paper Award for paper on “Memory Latency Distribution-Driven Regulation for Temporal Isolation in MPSoCs” at the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS).
• November 04, 2021
  “Horizontal Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Post-Quantum Key Exchange Protocols” paper selected as one of the Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security by the IEEE Hardware Security and Trust Technical Committee (HSTTC)
• September 03, 2021
  Best Paper Award for Erika for her paper on “Learning-Based Workload Phase Classification and Prediction Using Performance Monitoring Counters” at the ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD).
• March 05, 2021
  Ph.D. Defense Congratulations to Dr. Punniyamurthy for defending his thesis titled “Data Movement Optimizations for GPU-based Non-Uniform Processing-in-Memory Systems” successfully! He will join AMD Research as Postdoctoral Researcher this spring.
• May 08, 2020
  Advancing to candidacy Congratulations to Kishore and Kamyar for succesfully proposing their theses titled “Managing and Reducing Data Movement in GPU-based Non-Uniform Processing-in-Memory (NUPIM) Systems” and “Real-Time Guarantees in Distributed Edge Computing”, respectively.
• May 08, 2020
  Ph.D. Defense Congratulations to Dr. Asri for defending his thesis titled “Hardware-Assisted Data Movement Optimizations for Heteregenous System Architectures” successfully! He will join Facebook as Research Scientist this summer.
• May 05, 2019
  Best paper nomination for paper on “Using Power Anomalies to Counter Evasive Micro-Architectural Attacks in Embedded Systems” at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
• May 01, 2018
  Best paper nomination for paper on “Horizontal Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Post-Quantum Key Exchange Protocols” at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
• March 01, 2018
  Best paper nomination for paper “CAMP: Accurate Modeling of Core and Memory Locality for Proxy Generation of Big-data Applications” at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference.
• June 01, 2017
  Best paper nomination for paper “Towards Aging-Induced Approximations” at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC).
• March 29, 2017
  Best paper nomination for paper “Sampling-Based Binary-Level Cross-PlatformPerformance Estimation” at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference.
• September 13, 2016
  Best in Session Award for Xinnian for his presentation on “Accurate Phase-Level Cross-Platform Power and Performance Estimation” at SRC TECHCON 2016.
• June 08, 2016
  Best paper award for paper on “Accurate Phase-Level Cross-Platform Power andPerformance Estimation” at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC).
• July 22, 2015
  Best paper award for paper on “Learning-based Analytical Cross-PlatformPerformance Prediction” at the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS).
• September 10, 2013
  Best in Session Award for Zhuoran for his presentation on “Automated, Retargetable Back-Annotation for Host Compiled Performance and Power Modeling” at SRC TECHCON 2013.
• May 22, 2013
  Best Poster Award for Ardavan for his poster “Algorithm/Architecture Codesign of Low Power and High Performance Linear Algebra Compute Fabrics” at the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) Ph.D. Forum.