I'm broadly interested in computer architecture, particularly memory systems and the management and synchronization of data. I like building whole, balanced systems and understanding how all the pieces are connected, related, and affect each other.

Diana Marculescu is Department Chair, Cockrell Family Chair for Engineering Leadership #5, and Professor, Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to joining UT Austin in December 2019, she was the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Founding Director of the College of Engineering Center for Faculty Success (2015-2019) and has served as Associate Department Head for Academic Affairs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2014-2018), all at Carnegie Mellon University.

She received the Dipl.Ing. degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (1991), and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (1998). Her research interests include energy- and reliability-aware computing, hardware aware machine learning, and computing for sustainability and natural science applications.

Diana was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2000-2004), the ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award (2003), the Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2004), and several best paper awards. She was an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005) and the Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (2005-2009). Diana chaired several conferences and symposia in her area and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers. She was selected as an ELATE Fellow (2013-2014), and is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2013-2017), the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award (2014), and the Barbara Lazarus Award from Carnegie Mellon University (2018). Diana is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.

Hi! I am Lana, a doctoral student in the Processor Architecture Laboratory led by Professor Paolo Ienne.

My research focuses on bridging the gap between software and hardware with the purpose of building efficient circuits for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). I develop new high-level synthesis (HLS) techniques: the purpose is to generate hardware designs from high-level programming languages and to enable software developers to build efficient accelerators. I aim to change the HLS paradigm so that the produced circuits share key features with modern superscalar processors and are able to handle important classes of irregular and control-dominated applications.

I am grateful to have received the Google PhD Fellowship, the EPFL EDIC Fellowship, and the Google Anita Borg (Women Techmakers) Scholarship.

I am passionate about research and teaching. I want to gain expertise in the field of multi-core architecture and improve coherency and synchronization methods which are crucial for performance in the cutting edge computing applications. I recently gradauted and my research proposed multi-word atomics and its implementation in hardware to assist lock-free programs that are otherwise extremely difficult to program. I am currently working as a CPU architect at Google's CPU team. Additionally, I strongly believe that diversity is instrumental in finding innovative solutions and am committed to making computing a more inclusive world.