Biography
Academically, I am a computer architect. I study the design of the hardware components that efficiently solve problems written in software. My research has been recognized with an NSF Career Award in 2020, an NVIDIA graduate fellowship in 2013, best paper nominations at MICRO 2012, PPoPP 2017 and ISPASS 2021, an IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture in 2013, as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight in 2014, and my PhD thesis was nominated for the Governor General of Canada’s Gold Medal and the 2016 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. My teaching has been recognized with multiple Outstanding Engineering Teacher citations, the 2018 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2020 Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2022 College of Engineering Excellence in Early Career Teaching Award. I completed my PhD in Computer Architecture at the University of British Columbia in 2015. During the course of my PhD, I interned for the research divisions of both AMD and NVIDIA, where I worked on the design of future GPU computing microarchitectures. Prior to entering graduate school, I worked as a software engineer at Electronic Arts where I gained insight into how industrial software is really made.
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Systems
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PhD in Computer Engineering, 2015
University of British Columbia
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BEng in Honours Electrical Engineering, 2005
McGill University
Recent Publications
Publications
PhD Students
Cesar Avalos
PhD Student
Ahmad Alawneh
PhD Student
Internships: AMD Reseaerch (Spring/Summer 2024), Apple (2022)
Weili An
PhD Student
Internships: Arm (Summer 2023)
Aaron Barnes
PhD Student
Internships: AMD Research (Spring 2023), Intel (Fall 2021), Arm (Summer 2019)
Christin Bose
PhD Student
Internships: Meta (Spring 2022), Google (Summer 2021)
Ni Kang
PhD Student
Internships: NVIDIA (Summer 2024)
Yechen Liu
PhD Student
Anusuya Nallathambi
PhD Student
Junrui Pan
PhD Student
Fangjia Shen
PhD Student
Masters/Undergraduate Students
Masters Thesis
Shreya Gaur
Masters Thesis Student
Internships: NVIDIA (Summer 2024)
Zhaoyu Jin
Masters Thesis Student
Internships: Qualcomm SoC Architecture (Summer 2024)
PhD Alumni
Mahmoud Khairy
PhD Graduate, 2022.
Current Position: Researcher at AMD.
Tsung Tai Yeh
PhD Graduate, 2020.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University
Mengchi Zhang
PhD Graduate, 2022.
Current Position: Research Scientist at Meta
Masters/Undergraduate Alumni
Masters Thesis Grads
Akshay Jain
Masters Thesis. 2017.
Last Known Position: AI Software Engineer at AMD
Masters Project Grads
Abhishek Bhaumick
Masters Project. 2022.
Last Known Position: GPU Architect, NVIDIA.
Amogh Manjunath
Masters Project. 2020.
Last known Position: Silicon Engineer at Microsoft
Zhesheng Shen
Masters Project. 2020.
Last Known Position: SOC Design Engineer Intel.
Undergrad Research Grads
Sooraj Chetput
Undergrad Research. 2024.
Last Known Position: Graduate Student, Purdue.
Dima Nikiforov
Undergrad Research. 2020.
Last Known Position: PhD Student, UC Berkley