Degree Obtained: PhD

University: Georgia Institute of Technology

Date Degree Obtained: 12/2023

Faculty advisor: Arijit Raychowdhury

Email Address: spetalnick.sam@gmail.com

Research Statement: My research focused on the challenges associated with efficiently computing using large on-chip memories. My PhD work involved the use of emerging embedded nonvolatile memory technologies, including resistive RAM or RRAM, as improved storage technologies for large on-die memory banks. My collaborators and I explored different ways to structure, access, and leverage these on-chip memories.

Motivation statement: Many compelling computing tasks, such as low power machine learning inference, rely on having access to relatively large memory stores. Providing access to those stored bits at low costs in terms of energy, latency, and die area promises to make lower-power computing of these tasks more feasible.

Tell us more about you: I received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in December of 2018. I was a grateful recipient of the Georgia Tech Presidents Fellowship during my time at Georgia Tech.

Tell us your plans after graduation: I have a full-time position with NVIDIA.

Tell us a fun fact about you: My favorite hobby is probably cooking interesting meals. I cook almost every night.