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Mission
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.
Amna Shahab
PhD Student
The University of Edinburgh
Personal URL
Amna Shahab attended The University of Edinburgh for her doctoral studies and was advised by Boris Grot. Her research interests broadly lie in computer architecture and more specifically on memory system design for emerging datacenter workloads. She also has a passion for teaching and hopes to learn how to effectively translate it into a passion for learning from students.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Jun Yang
Professor
University of Pittsburgh
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Jun Yang is a William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, she was an assistant professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California, Riverside. Jun received her bachelor from Nanjing University, China, and her PhD from the University of Arizona in 1995 and 2002 respectively. Jun’s research is in the broad area of computer architecture and her recent focuses include GPU designs, architecture level security, emerging memory technologies, 3D integration, and power and thermal management techniques. Jun is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2008, IEEE MICRO Top Picks award in 2010, and best paper awards of ISLPED 2013 and ICCD 2007. She was on the editorial board of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and she has served in the Organizing and Technical Program Committee in ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA, for many years. She has been included in the HPCA hall of fame since 2017.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Dependable Architecture, Effects Of Circuits Or Technology On Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Yaqi
Principal Engineer
Stealth Mode Startup
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Yaqi Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. Her research interest is in hardware accelerator design and compiler optimizations for spatial and parallel architectures. She received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. She is a student member of IEEE. Contact her at yaqiz@stanford.edu.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture
Megan Wachs
VP of Engineering
SiFive
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Currently serving as SiFive's VP of Hardware Engineering. Passionate about getting more women into the open source community. R & D interests include Chip Generators, Cryptographic Hardware, shared memory protocols, accelerating custom ASIC Design. Earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (w/ Prof. Mark Horowitz) and her undergraduate degree in Engineering from Brown University.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architectural Support For Security Or VirtualizationInitiatives
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