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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.
Sonal Yadav
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology Raipur
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Sonal is a assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Raipur. Prior NIT Raipur, she was postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India from March 2018-2020. She received her M.Tech and PhD degree from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, India. Her PhD dissertation was on Exploration of Efficient Manycore Multiple Networks-on-Chip Architectures. Her research interests lie in improving energy efficiency via power-gating for multiple networks-on-chip (NoC) architectures and self-learning NoC architectures. Her thesis work awarded travel grant in DATE 2019. She is the recipient of the best paper award by TCVLSI in IEEE-SES 2018. Her PhD work is published in reputed conferences VDAT 2015, VLSI Design 2016, DAC 2019 and journals. She has received multiple recognitions, including PhD Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) Govt. of India and Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture
Marjan Asadinia
Assistant Professor
California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt
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Masoomeh Jasemi
Phd Candidate
University of California Irvine
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I am a research scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at University of California, Irvine advised by Prof. Nader Bagherzadeh. I am interested lie in Accelerator based architecture, memory systems, multicore and parallel computing, and heterogeneous architectures. Currently, I am working on mitigating memory bottleneck in deep neural networks (DNN) accelerator based architectures.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Dependable Architecture, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Ghazal Tashakor
Scientist
Jülich Supercomputing Centre
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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.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems ArchitectureInitiatives
We organize various initiatives to better connect women in computer architecture.
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We offer an informal mentoring program through our slack channel (wicarch.slack.com). Women at all career stages are encouraged to join. The mentoring program provides an easy way to connect with other women and receive advice on a wide range of career and personal issues.
If you need assistance in joining our mailing list or slack channel, please send email to wicarch-chair@acm.org.
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