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Congratulations to Madhuparna Bhowmik for depositing her M.S. thesis, July 2023!
Our paper titled ApproxCaliper: A Programmable Framework for Application-aware Neural Network Optimization has been accepted for publicaiton at MLSys 2023!
Our paper titled Power, Performance, and Image Quality Tradeoffs in Foveated Rendering has been accepted for publicaiton at IEEE VR 2023!
Congratulations to Muhammad Huzaifa for successfully defending his thesis, November 2022!
Vignesh passed the PhD qualifying exam, November 2022!
Bakshree passed the PhD qualifying exam, November 2022!
Yihan passed the PhD qualifying exam, November 2022!
Our paper titled ILLIXR: An Open Testbed to Enable Extended Reality Systems Research has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Micro Special Issue on the Top Picks from the 2021 Computer Architecture Conferences.
Sarita gave a talk on ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Systems Research at the High Performance Graphics 2022 Hot3D Invited talks, July 2022.
Sarita gave a talk on ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Systems Research at the Sandia National Labs 4th Annual XR conference, July 2022.
Our paper titled HPVM: Hardware-Agnostic Programming for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems has been accepted for publication at the IEEE Micro Special Issue SI: Compiling for Accelerators.
Sarita gave a keynote talk on Enabling the Immersive Era of Computing at ISCA, June 2022.
Our paper titled A Case for Fine-grain Coherence Specialization in Heterogeneous Systems has been accepted for publication at TACO!
Rahul passed the PhD qualifying exam, April 2022!
Our ILLIXR paper was chosen for the IEEE Micro's Top Picks 2022!
Boyuan passed the PhD qualifying exam, December 2021!
Ying passed the PhD qualifying exam, December 2021!
Our paper titled ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Research has been accepted for publicaiton at IISWC 2021! It also won the Best Paper Award!
PyTorchFI has been added to the PyTorch Ecosystem!
Our paper titled Optimizing Selective Protection for CNN Resilience has been accepted for publicaiton at ISSRE 2021!
Congratulations to Zeran Zhu for depositing his M.S. thesis, June 2021!
Sarita gave a keynote talk on Habits for Happy Success: Reflections from My Anti-Bio at The Third Young Architect Workshop (YArch),held in conjunction with ASPLOS'21, April 2021!
Sarita gave a talk on An Open-Source Testbed to Democratize Extended Reality Research, Development, and Benchmarking at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), April 2021!
Sam passed the PhD qualifying exam, April 2021!
ILLIXR v2.1.10 released. Available here!
Sarita gave a talk on Systems 2030: The Extended Reality Case at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, University of Washington as part of distinguished lecture series, Feb 2021!
Our paper titled ApproxTuner: A Compiler and Runtime System for Adaptive Approximations has been accepted for publicaiton at PPoPP 2021!
Congratulations to Abdulrahman Mahmoud for successfully defending his thesis, December 2020!
Sarita gave a keynote talk at PACT, October 2020!
Abdulrahman was invited to attend the Nexus NextProf Workshop, September 2020!
Congratulations to Radha Venkatagiri for successfully defending her thesis, August 2020!
Sarita gave a keynote talk at IOLTS, July 2020!
ILLIXR v2.1.0 released. Available here!
Sarita got elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Apr 2020!
Sarita received Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring award (UIUC) in Apr 2020!
Huzaifa and the ILLIXR team received the Lynn Conway Research Award for their demoed work at the ADA Center Annual Symposium!
Our paper titled PyTorchFI: A Runtime Perturbation Tool for DNNs has been accepted for publicaiton at DSML Workshop 2020!
Our paper titled Inter-Kernel Reuse-Aware Thread Block Scheduling has been accepted for publicaiton at TACO!
HPVM is now released!
Radha received W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award!
Our paper titled Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNs has been accepted for publicaiton at SARA 2020!
Our paper titled Specializing Coherence, Consistency, and Push/Pull for GPU Graph Analytics has been accepted for publicaiton at ISPASS 2020!
CARES co-founded by Sarita received CRA distinguished service award
Sarita gave a talk on I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution at DARPA/ISAT Study group, Jan 2020!
Our paper on gem5-Approxilyzer was nominated as for IBM's 2019 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award!
Radha was invited to speak at Future of Computing Architectures at IBM Research!
Radha was invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Approximate Systems", 2020!
Sarita gave a talk on "Coherence, Communication, and Consistency: A Unified View for Efficient Memory Hierarchies for Domain-Specific Architectures" at D E Shaw Research Distinguished Lecture, October 2019!
Radha gave a talk on "Democratizing Error-Efficient Computing" at Rising Stars in Computer Architecture 2019, October 2019!
Radha was selected as a Rising Stars in Computer Architecture, 2019!
Radha was selected as a Rising Star in EECS, 2019!
Radha gave a talk on "Democratizing Error-Efficient Computing via Principled Error Analyses" at Future of Computing Architectures 2019, IBM Research, October 2019!
Sarita gave a talk on "Memory Consistency Models: They Are Broken and Why We Should Care" for the Ken Kennedy Award at Rice University, October 2019!
Sam won the ARCS Fellowship!
Sam won the SURGE Fellowship!
Abdulrahman attended the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 2019!
Sarita gave two talks on "Interface, Communication, Approximation" and "Dynamic Coherence Specialization" at ARM Research Summit, September 2019!
Huzaifa gave a talk on "An Open-source Toolset for Analyzing Soft Errors at the Application Level" at ARM Research Summit, September 2019!
Sarita gave a talk on "An Open-source Toolset for Analyzing Soft Errors at the Application Level" at SRC TECHCON, September 2019!
Sarita gave a talk on "HarDNN: Resilient Deep Neural Networks. Domain-Specific Error-Efficient Computing" at Intel, September 2019!
Our paper titled "ApproxHPVM: A Portable Compiler IR for Accuracy-aware Optimizations" has been accepted for publication at OOPSLA 2019!
Sarita presented EPOCHS at the presitgious ERI Summit!
Huzaifa received the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship, August 2019!
gem5-Approxilyzer released. Available here!
Radha presented "gem5-Approxilyzer: an Open Source Tool for Application-Level Soft Error Analysis" at DSN 2019!
Our paper titled "Approximate Checkers" has been accepted for publication at WAX 2019!
Gio, Huzaifa, and Sarita gave talks at the ADA Center Annual Symposium!
Abdulrahman received the Lynn Conway Research Award for his demoed work at the ADA Center Annual Symposium!
Huzaifa presented "VR Swarms: Enabling Shared Virtual Experiences" at WACI!
Abdulrahman presented "Minotaur: Adapting Software Testing Techniques for Hardware Errors" at ASPLOS 2019!
Abdulrahman was selected as a participant in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum!
Abdulrahman has been selected as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow!
Our paper titled "gem5-Approxilyzer: an Open Source Tool for Application-Level Soft Error Analysis" has been accepted for publication at DSN!
Our paper titled "VR Swarms: Enabling Shared Virtual Experiences" has been accepted for publication at WACI!
Sarita received the Google Research Faculty Award!
Sarita is a guest speaker at Techfest IIT-Bombay, Asia's largest tech event! The Dalai Lama and Bombay stock exchange CEO are also lecturers at this event! December 2018.
Abdulrahman presented at SC, November 2018!
Sarita has been awarded the 2018 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, November 2018!
Matt received the 2018 David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, October 2018!
Abdulrahman was accepted as a mentor for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP), October 2018!
Our paper titled "Minotaur: Adapting Software Testing Techniques for Hardware Errors" has been accepted for publication at ASPLOS 2019!
Radha attended the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, October 2018!
Adel and Abdulrahman presented their research at TECHCON, September 2018!
Congratulations to John Alsop for successfully defending his thesis, August 2018!
Wes Darvin joined our research group, August 2018!
Congratulations to Khalique Ahmed for depositing his M.S. thesis, July 2018!
Released HeteroSync to the open source community! Check it out!
Radha presented at DSN, June 2018!
Sarita is elected as ACM SIG Governing Board (SGB) representative to ACM Council!
Sarita is featured in CS@Illinois for her collaboration in the DARPA JUMP Center, June 2018!
Our paper titled "Optimizing Software-Directed Instruction Replication for GPU Error Detection" has been accepted for publication at SC 2018!
Matt was selected as an Honorable Mention for the 2018 SIGARCH/TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award, June 2018!
John presented at ISCA, June 2018!
Sarita is featured in CRA research highlight, April 2018!
Radha was selected as a participent in the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, April 2018!
Adel received the Graduate Student Outstanding Ambassador Award, April 2018!
Our paper titled "Spandex: A Generalized Interface for Flexible Heterogeneous Coherence" has been accepted for publication at ISCA 2018!
Our paper titled "Impact of Software Approximation on the Resiliency of a Video Summarization System" has been accepted for publication at DSN 2018!
Sarita joins the JUMP Center, a collaborative research effort between multiple universities and DARPA, aiming to improve performance, efficiency, and overall capabilities of future electronic systems, February 2018!
Sarita is interviewed for HiPEAC voices, January 2018!
Sarita is interviewed by AnitaB.org, "Q&A with Two Women Behind the MICRO-50 Statement", November 2017!
Our paper titled "HPVM: Heterogeneous Parallel Virtual Machine" has been accepted for publication at PPoPP 2018!
Matt received the 2018 David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, October 2017
Sarita was invited to join DARPA's Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT) for a three year appointment!
Our paper titled "HeteroSync: A Benchmark Suite for Fine-Grained Synchronization on Tightly Coupled GPUs" has been accepted for publication at IISWC 2017!
Sarita and Matt invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on New Challenges in Parallelism, November 2017!
Matt presented at ISCA, June 2017!
Congratulations to Lin Cheng for depositing his M.S. thesis, April 2017!
Gio passed the PhD qualifying exam, April 2017!
Abdulrahman presented at WAX, April, 2017!
Radha was invited to the SNF International Exploratory Workshop on Theory and Practice for Error-Efficient Computing Systems, April 2017!
Matt was invited to The 50 Years of ACM Turing Award Celebration!
Our paper titled "Chasing Away RAts: Semantics and Evaluation for Relaxed Atomics on Heterogeneous Systems" has been accepted for publication at ISCA 2017!
Our paper titled "Leveraging Software Testing to Explore Input Dependence for Approximate Computing" has been accepted for publication at WAX 2017!
John received the Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship for 2017-2018!
Sarita gave a keynote speech at HiPEAC 2017 in Stockholm. Watch the full keynote here!
Huzaifa was recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the Spring 2016 semester!
Released Approxilyzer to the open source community! Check it out!
Our paper titled "Lazy Release Consistency for GPUs" has been accepted for publication at MICRO 2016!
Our paper titled "Approxilyzer: Towards A Systematic Framework for Instruction-Level Approximate Computing and its Applications to Hardware Resiliency" has been accepted for publication at MICRO 2016!
Congratulations to John Alsop for depositing his M.S. thesis, April 2016!
John presented at ISPASS, April 2016!
Matt was selected as a participent in the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, April 2016!
Matt and Huzaifa received the Feng Chen Memorial Award in 2016!
Matt received the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship Award again for 2016-2017!
Radha presented at WAX, April, 2016.
Abdulrahman was recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the Fall 2015 semester!
Abdulrahman passed the PhD qualifying exam, March 2016!
Our paper titled "Towards more Precision in Approximate Computing" has been accepted for publication at WAX 2016!
John received the Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship for 2016!
Our paper titled "Characterizing the Sources of Memory Stalls for Tightly Coupled GPUs" has been accepted for publication at ISPASS 2016!
Our Stash and Scopes papers were both awarded Honorable Mentions in IEEE Micro Top Picks 2016!
Sarita was elected as SIGARCH Chair!
Matt presented at MICRO 2015, December 2015.
Our work on Stash has been covered in the CCC blog!
Our paper titled "Efficient GPU Synchronization without Scopes: Saying No to Complex Consistency Models" has been accepted for publication at MICRO 2015!
Giordano Salvador joined our research group, August 2015.
Matt presented Stash at ISCA 2015, June 2015.
Sarita was a panelist at WDDD'15, June 2015.
John passed the PhD qualifying exam, April 2015.
Sarita was elected to the Computing Research Association (CRA) board for a third term.
Matt presented at EPFL, April 2015.
Matt received the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship Award for 2015-2016!
Matt received the W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award for 2015!
Rakesh presented "Eliminating On-Chip Traffic Waste: Are We There Yet?" at ISPASS 2015, March 2015
Sarita gave a keynote at the 2nd Annual WACAS, March 2015
Sarita presented DeNovoSync at ASPLOS 2015, March 2015
Our paper titled "Stash: Have Your Scratchpad and Cache it Too" is accepted for publication at ISCA 2015
Rakesh presented "Revisiting the Complexity of Hardware Cache Coherence and Some Implications" at HiPEAC 2015, January 2015
Pradeep presented "Hardware Fault Recovery for I/O Intensive Applications" at HiPEAC 2015, January 2015
Our paper titled "DeNovoSync: Efficient Support for Arbitrary Synchronization without Writer-Initiated Invalidations" is accepted for publication at ASPLOS 2015
Our paper titled "Revisiting the Complexity of Hardware Cache Coherence and Some Implications" is accepted for publication in ACM's TACO
Our paper titled "Hardware Fault Recovery for I/O Intensive Applications" is accepted for publication in ACM's TACO
Sarita, Radha, Matt, and Abdulrahman present at CFAR, November 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Rakesh Komuravelli for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, November 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Hyojin Sung for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, November 2014
Huzaifa passed the PhD qualifying exam, October 2014
Siva received the 2014 David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, October 2014
Sarita presented at EPFL, September 2014
Matt presented at NVIDIA Research, July 2014
Siva presented GangES at ISCA 2014, June 2014
Rakesh presented at Oracle Labs, Qualcomm Research, and Cavium Networks, April - July 2014
Our paper titled "GangES: Gang Error Simulation for Hardware Resiliency Evaluation" is accepted for publication at ISCA 2014
Hyojin received the W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award for 2014
Matt was recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the Spring 2014 semester
Sarita was Program Chair for ASPLOS 2014, March 2014
Radha passed the PhD qualifying exam, March 2014
Our DeNovoND paper is chosen for the IEEE Micro's Top Picks 2014
John Alsop and Muhammad Huzaifa joined our research group, January 2014
Rakesh and Matt present at Qualcomm Research, September 2013
Sarita, Hyojin, Rakesh, and Matt present talks and posters at I2PC Summit, September 2013
Abdulrahman Mahmoud joined our research group, August 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Siva Kumar Sastry Hari for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, July 2013
Sarita, Rakesh, and Matt present at Qualcomm Research, May 2013
Siva was selected as a participent in the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum, April 2013!
Siva received the Feng Chen Memorial Award in 2013
Our Relyzer paper is chosen for the IEEE Micro's Top Picks 2013
Hyojin presented DeNovoND at ASPLOS 2013, March 2013
Sarita gave a talk at WoDet, March 2013
Matt passed the PhD qualifying exam, March 2013
Our paper titled "DeNovoND: Efficient Hardware Support for Disciplined Non-Determinism" is accepted for publication at ASPLOS 2013
Article on Rakesh and Matt's fellowship in the Departmental Click! magazine, September 2012
Sarita selected as Program Chair for ASPLOS 2014!
Siva received the Margarida Jacome GSRC Best Poster Award, Oct 2012
Radha Venkatagiri joined our research group
Rakesh and Matt received a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, May 2012
Siva received the W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award for 2012
Byn, Hyojin, Rakesh, and Rob received the Feng Chen Memorial Award in 2012
Our paper titled "Virtual Instruction Set Computing for Heterogeneous Systems" is accepted for publication at HotPar 2012
Sarita is named Woman of Vision in innovation by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology in 2012
Rob passed the PhD qualifying exam, March 2012
Rob presented CrashTest'ing SWAT at DATE 2012
Siva presented Relyzer at ASPLOS 2012
Our paper titled "Low-cost Program-level Detectors for Reducing Silent Data Corruptions" is accepted for publication at DSN 2012
Sarita has been named an IEEE Fellow for the class of 2012
Best paper award for "DeNovo: Rethinking the Multicore Memory Hierarchy for Disciplined Parallelism" at PACT 2011!
Matt Sinclair joined our research group
Sarita gave a keynote speech at ICS, June 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Pradeep Ramachandran for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, May 2011
Sarita gave a talk at the Triangle distinguished lecture series, Duke University, April 2011
Pradeep, Rob, and Siva presented three papers at SELSE 2011
Sarita has been named ACM Fellow for the class of 2010, honored for her "impact on hardware and language memory models, and contributions to low-power and resilient systems."
" Parallel SAH k-D Tree Construction" accepted at HPG 2010
SWAT and DeNovo selected as top 10 projects to present in 2010 CS Spring Grad Expo at Illinois
An article about DeNovo appears on EETimes
"DeNovo: Rethinking Hardware for Disciplined Parallelism" was accepted at HotPar '10
"A Language for Deterministic-by-Default Parallel Programming" was accepted at CPC 2010
Sarita gave a talk on DeNovo at the Illinois UPCRC Summit, Mar '10
Sarita and Hans Boehm will give a tutorial on memory models in PLDI'10
Sarita gave a distinguished lecture at the University of Michigan, Feb'10
Sarita participated in the "Advancing Computer Architecture Research" workshop sponsored by CRA/CCC. See position paper and talk here. Feb'10
Pradeep successfully completed his Preliminary Exam, Dec'09
Siva presented mSWAT at MICRO-09, Dec'09
Lei Chen joined the group as a research scientist, Nov'09
Byn, Hyojin, Rakesh, and Siva cleared the PhD qualifying exam, Oct'09
Xin Fu received the NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship. She recently joined the group as a post-doc, Oct'09
Alex succesfully defended his PhD dissertation, Aug'09
Sarita gave a keynote at a plenary session of PODC and SPAA, Aug'09
Paper on a retrospective of memory models, motivating a rethinking of parallel languages and hardware, accepted for CACM.
Pradeep received an Intel fellowship and an IBM scholarship, July'09