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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.
Nayana Prasad Nagendra
Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
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Hi, I am Nayana, a final year Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, advised by Prof. David August. My research interests are in the field of computer architecture and hardware/software co-design, with more focus on performance improvement at the Datacenter scale. I interned for two consecutive summers with Google Wide Profiling team at Google. Before joining Princeton, I was working as a Verification Engineer at AMD, Bangalore, India.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Xiaochen Guo
Assistant Professor
Lehigh University
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Dr. Guo is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Dr. Guo received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2015, and B.S. degree from Beihang University in 2009. Dr. Guo's research interests are in the broad area of computer architecture, with an emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies to build energy-efficient architectures. She received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship twice. Dr. Guo is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing Sciences Research Pathways Fellowship.
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Sabrina Neuman
Assistant Professor
Boston University
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Sabrina M. Neuman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. Her research interests are in computer architecture design informed by explicit application-level and domain-specific insights. She is particularly focused on robotics applications because of their heavy computational demands and potential to improve the well-being of individuals in society. She received her S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from MIT, and she was a postdoctoral NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at Harvard University. She is a 2021 EECS Rising Star, and her work on robotics acceleration has received Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks 2022 and IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023. She holds the 2023-2026 Boston University Innovation Career Development Professorship.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Instruction, Thread and Data-Level Parallelism, Iot, Mobile and Embedded Architecture, Multiprocessor Systems
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 ArchitectureInitiatives
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