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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.
Cristina Silvano
Professor
Politecnico di Milano
Personal URL
My research focuses on Computer Architectures and Electronic Design Automation, with emphasis on power-aware design for embedded systems, design space exploration of energy-efficient computer architectures and application autotuning for manycore architectures and High-Performance Computing. In 2017, I have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow “for contributions to energy-efficient computer architectures”. Recently I was European Project Coordinator of the H2020-FET-HPC project ANTAREX-671623 (2015-2018) on "Autotuning and adaptivity approach for energy efficient exascale HPC systems”. I was Project Coordinator of two other European projects: FP7-2PARMA-248716 (2010-2013) and FP7-MULTICUBE-216693 (2008-2010). I am an active member of the scientific community and I regularly serve in several international program committees. I annually teach basic and advanced courses on computer architectures and operating systems.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Multiprocessor Systems
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
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
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
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.
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