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