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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
Elaheh
Assistant Professor
University of California, Riverside
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Elaheh Sadredini is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Riverside. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 2019, advised by Professor Kevin Skadron, and she was a member at the Center for Research on Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP). Her research focus is on developing specialized, near-memory, and in-memory hardware accelerators for big data applications, including natural language processing, data mining, and bioinformatics. Her research has resulted in several publications at top-tier venues (such as MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, ICS, and KDD) and several patents and patent applications. Elaheh is the recipient of several awards, including the John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award from the UVA Department of Computer Science for outstanding research in 2019 and the UVA International Students Office Graduation Award for Academic Excellence in 2019. She also received the best paper awards at the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers in 2016, the “Best of CAL” award in 2019, and a nomination for the best paper award at IISWC’19, FCCM’20, and HPCA’20.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
Noa Zilberman
Associate Professor
University of Oxford
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Noa Zilberman is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Engineering Science Department, where she leads the Computing Infrastructure Group. Her research focuses on scalable, sustainable and resilient computing infrastructure, combining aspects of computer networks, computer architecture, reconfigurable hardware and systems.
Accelerator-Based, Application-Specific and Reconfigurable Architecture, Architecture For Emerging Technologies and Applications, Datacenter-Scale Computing, Evaluation and Measurement Of Real Systems, Interconnection Network, Router and Network Interface Architecture
Newsha Ardalani
Research Scientist
Meta AI (FAIR)
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My research interest lies at the intersection of data, ML and system. At Meta AI, I'm exploring limits of scaling for many SOTA models.
Architecture For Emerging Technologies and ApplicationsInitiatives
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