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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.
Swati Sajee Kumar
Graduate Student
State University of New York
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Computer Science Engineer, specializing in Hardware and Network Systems from SUNY Buffalo. Highly passionate about Research in the field of VLSI , Computer Architecture and Hardware Security. Also, I have a great interest in the field of Routers and Switches, MIMO technology and VLSI Digital Circuit designing. Along with my Master's I am also working as a Graduate Assistant in HPVSA Laboratory, in the Dept. of Computer Science Engineering , SUNY Buffalo. My current research is on design and optimization of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF), which could act as a fingerprint for semiconductor devices.
Furthermore, I have obtained my Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SRMIST,Chennai,India. During my undergrad I sincerely worked under my Professor for the research project - on Tunnel Field Effect Transistor, which we presented at the National Conference Silicon'18. Our paper "Design Optimization of Tunnel Field Effect Transistor" was published in International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE) in March 2019.
The amalgamation of Electronics, Computers and Communications have helped me to pave stronger base for the skills needed in the field of Computer Hardware and Computer Networks.
Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Itir Akgun
Senior Systems Engineer
Qualcomm
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I am currently a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm working on mobile SoC performance analysis.
I received my PhD in 2020 from the ECE department of University of California, Santa Barbara under the guidance of Prof. Yuan Xie, and my Master's degree in 2015. I completed my undergraduate studies in the ECE department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. My PhD research explores the design space of the memory fabric in memory-centric system architectures, given the emerging memory technologies and integration trends, to identify bottlenecks and trade-offs and proposes scalable solutions.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Darya
Graduate Student
Univeristy of Rochester
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Darya Mikhailenko is pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester under the supervision of Prof. Engin Ipek. Her interests cover areas of energy-efficient computer architectures, machine learning for computer vision applications, memory management, accelerators, and architecture modeling for emerging technologies. Darya worked as a research assistant at Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory (Purdue University, U.S.A.) and Bioinspired Microelectronics Systems Laboratory (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) on the implementation of brain-computer architecture to actualize deep neural networks. Her recent work was dedicated to techniques to minimize data movement energy by exploiting asymmetric on- and off-chip interconnects. Currently, she researches microarchitecture level optimizations for AR/VR applications.
Darya is looking for internships in the field of AR/VR related but not limited to computer architecture and machine learning algorithms.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Nadja Ramhöj Holtryd
PhD student
Chalmers University of Technology
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I'm a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. My current research focuses on scalable cache partitioning.
Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
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