Honors

The following list includes research and teaching awards I have won:
  • IEEE Fellow for "contributions to simulation techniques and resilient system design in computer architecture", in 2017.
  • Distinguished Paper Award, 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2016), this is the top "best paper" award (of four given each year) at the Oakland conference.
  • Nominated for a 2016 Pwnie Award in the category of Most Innovative Research, for the research "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware".
  • 2015 University of Michigan College of Engineering Research Excellence Award
  • 2013 IEEE Senior Membership
  • 2012 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for "development of the DIVA technology". The Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award is an annual award given by the GSRC DARPA/MARCO center that recognizes research that is "at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact."
  • 2010 GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Poster/Demo Award, given to graduate student Andrea Pellegrini and Profs. Valeria Bertacco and Todd Austin for demo of the work from "Fault-Based Attack of RSA Authentication", September 2010.
  • 2009 Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award, given to Profs. Austin, Blaauw, Mahlke, Mudge, and Papaefthymiou for work in low-power research and design, February 2009.
  • 2008 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for "development of the Razor technology" (awarded to Profs. Todd Austin and David Blaauw). The Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award is an annual award given by the GSRC DARPA/MARCO center that recognizes research that is "at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact."
  • 2007 Maurice Wilkes Award for "innovative contributions in Computer Architecture including the SimpleScalar Toolkit and the DIVA and Razor architectures.", June 2007.
  • Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for Innovation, 2007, for "introducing and implementing Razor technology", April 2007.
  • A paper I co-authored with Doug Burger (now at UT-Austin), titled "The SimpleScalar Tool Set, Version 2.0," is now the most widely referenced paper in the computer architecture field, with more than 2600 citations.
  • "Top Pick" Award, for the paper "Razor: Circuit-Level Correction of Timing Errors for Low-Power Operation," in the IEEE MICRO special issue on Top Picks From Microarchitecture Conferences of 2004, March 2005.
  • Best Paper Award, "Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation", in the 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36), November 2003.
  • University of Michigan Henry Russel Award, for "exceptional scholarship and conspicuous ability as a teacher", March 2004.
  • University of Michigan College of Engineering Education Excellence Award, in recognition of "demonstrated sustained excellence in curricular development, instruction and guidance", January 2004.
  • "Top Pick" Award, for the paper "Measuring Architectural Vulnerability Factors", in the IEEE MICRO special issue on Top Picks From Microarchitecture Conferences of 2003, December 2003.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, May 2003.
  • Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award, for "excellence in teaching and inspiring students", September 2002.
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, February 2001.
  • Best Paper Award, "DIVA: A Reliable Substrate for Deep Submicron Microarchitecture Design", in the 32nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-32)
  • Best Presentation Award, "DIVA: A Reliable Substrate for Deep Submicron Microarchitecture Design", at the 32nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-32)