Research Mentoring

• 2022-present: Woojin Jung (Cranbrook High School)
  Performance characterization and optimization of distributed gradient boosting workloads

• 2022-present: Kan Zhu (UM BSc)
  Architectural implications of Google's data center applications
  First place in ACM undergraduate student research competition (MICRO'22)

• 2022-present: Diane Chiang (UM BSc)
  Visualization of thread interleavings among Google's data center applications

• 2022-present: Fangjia Shen (Purdue PhD)
  Performance characterization and acceleration of Apache Spark workloads

• 2022-present: Yiwei Yang (UCSC PhD)
  Emulating memory disaggregation for data center applications

• 2022-present: Pooneh Safayenikoo (UCSC PhD)
  Data-driven far memory allocation, prefetching, and replacement

• 2021-present: Saba Jamilan (UCSC PhD)
  Profile-guided timely software prefetching and replacement
  First author of APT-GET [EuroSys'22]

• 2021-present: Surim Oh (UCSC PhD)
  Precise and timely wrong-path prefetching

• 2021-present: Ali Ansari (EPFL PhD)
  Architectural and systems-level implications of CloudSuite-4.0 applications

• 2021-present: Shanqing Lin (EPFL PhD)
  Systems-level architectural simulation of CloudSuite-4.0 applications

• 2021-present: Truls Asheim (NTNU PhD)
  Analyzing microarchitectural behaviour of serverless functions

• 2020-present: Peter Braun (UCSC PhD)
  Performance characterization and optimization of modern processor's frontend for data center applications
  Co-author of PDede [MICRO'21]

• 2020-present: Yuxuan Zhang (UPenn PhD)
  Online profile-guided optimizations for C/C++ applications
  First author of OCOLOS [MICRO'22]

• 2020-present: Yuhan Chen (UM BSc → UM PhD)
  Performance characterization and acceleration of irregular workloads
  First author of the IISWC'20 paper
  First author of PEDAL [DATE'23]

• 2020-2022: Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri (UM PhD → CMU PhD)
  Proxy-web: a proxy app suite for production web services
  Co-author of Thermometer [ISCA'22]

• 2021-2022: Shixin Song (UM BSc → MIT PhD)
  Profile-guided BTB replacement for data center applications
  First author of Thermometer [ISCA'22]
  First place in ACM undergraduate student research competition (MICRO'21)
  CRA outstanding undergraduate researcher award honorable mention, 2022

• 2020-2022: Muhammed Ugur (UM BSc, MSc → Yale PhD)
  Profile-guided Linux Kernel optimizations for data center applications
  Co-author of Whisper [MICRO'22]
  First author of One Profile First All [SIGOPS OSR'22]

• 2022: Zhenhang He (UM BSc → Pinterest)
  Enabling microarchitectural simulations of data center applications

• 2021: Scott Hadley (UM BSc → ARM)
  Enabling microarchitectural simulations of managed workloads

• 2019-2021: Nathan Brown (UM BSc, MSc → ARM)
  Profile-guided instruction cache and BTB prefetching for data center applications
  Co-author of Twig [MICRO'21]
  First place in ACM undergraduate student research competition (CGO'20)

• 2020: Dexin Zhang (USTC BSc → USTC PhD)
  Profile-guided instruction cache replacement for data center applications
  Co-author of Ripple [ISCA'21]

• 2020: Ashfaqur Rahaman (BUET BSc in Naval Engineering → Utah PhD CS)
  Load-time code layout optimizations

• 2020: Yineng Yan (UM BSc → UT Austin PhD)
  Record and replay debugging for arbitrary GPU programs

• 2019: Shariq Hafeez (UM BSc → Citadel)
  Optimizing data locality for stash databases

• 2019: Zhiqi Chen (UM BSc → CMU MSc)
  Optimizing data locality for MySQL

• 2019: Xiaohe Cheng (HKUST BSc → Google)
  Optimizing data locality for Memcached, Redis, SQLite, Graph500, and XStream

• 2018-2019: Yifan Zhao (UM BSc → UIUC PhD)
  Hybrid false sharing detection and repair
  Co-author of Huron [PLDI'19]