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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.
Aporva Amarnath
Research Scientist
IBM Research
Personal URL
I am a Research Scientist at IBM Research. I’m currently working on memory-centric architectures for privacy preserving applications, co-design of heterogeneous architectures and schedulers for them.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Dina G. Mahmoud
Assistant Professor
The American Univeristy in Cairo
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I am an assistant professor at the department of computer science and Engineering at AUC. Before that, I did my Ph.D. studies as a CYD doctoral fellow at EPFL. I was working with Dr. Mirjana Stojilovic at the Parallel Systems Architecture (PARSA) laboratory led by Professor Babak Falsafi.
My research interests are focused on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) security. In particular, I look at the possible remote attacks on FPGAs. Furthermore, I am interested in the security of heterogeneous CPU-FPGA systems. I investigate possible attacks on and across system components. The goal is to find the vulnerabilities and design lightweight and effective countermeasures.
I am grateful to have received the CYD Doctoral Fellowship, the Google Generation Scholarship, and the EPFL EDIC Fellowship.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architectural Support For Security Or Virtualization
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
Lauren
Database Architect
Carestream Dental/Georgia Tech
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Database
Architectural Support For Programming Languages Or Software Development, Architecture Modeling and Simulation Methodologies, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Iot, Mobile and Embedded 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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