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 Supercomputer Centre.

I'm a doctoral student at the Chalmers University of Technology advised by Prof. Ioannis Sourdis. Formerly, I was a Researcher advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu at ETH Zürich, and Research Assistant to Prof. Trevor E. Carlson at the National University of Singapore. I obtained my engineering master's and bachelor's degrees in 2015 and 2013 respectively from BITS Pilani.

My recent work focuses on exploring near-data computing in the context of GPGPUs and 3D-DRAM architectures. Previously, I have worked on designing and building simulation infrastructures, energy-efficient cache memory architectures, and cache coherence protocols.

Amrita Mazumdar is a researcher at NVIDIA Research, working on topics at the intersection of graphics and video with computer systems and architecture. She received her PhD in Computer Science in May 2020 from the University of Washington, where she was advised by Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin. Her research interests are in computer systems and architecture for emerging visual computing workloads (e.g., VR and video analytics). Mazumdar’s work has resulted in performance improvements for custom hardware accelerators, storage systems, and data management systems. She received her MS (2017) from the University of Washington, and her BS (2014) from Columbia University. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mazumdar founded a startup based on her PhD work, and has worked at Facebook, Oculus Research and IBM, as well as in collaboration with Google Research.

I am an assistant professor at the department of computer science and Engineering at AUC. Before that, I did my Ph.D. studies as a CYD doctoral fellow at EPFL. I was working with Dr. Mirjana Stojilovic at the Parallel Systems Architecture (PARSA) laboratory led by Professor Babak Falsafi.

My research interests are focused on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) security. In particular, I look at the possible remote attacks on FPGAs. Furthermore, I am interested in the security of heterogeneous CPU-FPGA systems. I investigate possible attacks on and across system components. The goal is to find the vulnerabilities and design lightweight and effective countermeasures.

I am grateful to have received the CYD Doctoral Fellowship, the Google Generation Scholarship, and the EPFL EDIC Fellowship.