Check out the class website here:

Details here.

I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis August 1st so I am officially graduated!!! I had a great time at University of Illinois and will be missing Urbana-Champaign and all the friends and I have there.

I am very happy to say that my job search has ended and I will be joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor starting September 1st. I removed the job search material from the website but it is still available upon request.

I presented our paper at ISCA in Beijing. The slides for the talk are available here.

I received the W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award for 2008. I would like to thank the Computer Science Department at UIUC for this honor. Here are a few details about the award, from the CS awards website:

Established by family, friends, former students, and colleagues upon Professor W. J. Poppelbaum's death in 1993. He came to Illinois in 1954 and joined the solid state research group under Professor John Bardeen, working on an electrolytic analog of a junction transistor. He joined the Digital Computer Laboratory a year later, in charge of circuit research. Poppelbaum was on the faculty from 1955-89 and developed the basic circuits of ILLIAC II.

This award is for graduate students in computer hardware or architecture, based on academic merit and creativity.

You can find it here.

I have an ISCA paper! It's titled Variation-Aware Application Scheduling and Power Management for CMPs. Draft version available on request.

To make things even sweeter, ISCA will be held in Beijing this year!

I have officially began my job search. I set up a dedicated web page here. Wish me luck!

I just returned from MICRO which was held in Chicago this year. I presented our work on dynamic body bias. The slides I used in the presentation can be downloaded here.

I was in Portland from 6th to 10th of October for the Intel PhD Fellowship Forum. Intel treated us to a great cruise on the Willamette River and a lot of other cool events. We had a great time!



I also gave a presentation on my work on dynamic body bias. The slides are available here.

And available here.

Udupi Palace in Chicago

We had a paper accepted in MICRO! More details and the final version will be available here. A big thank you to all the authors that worked so hard to make this possible!

I was awarded the Intel Foundation Fellowship for 2007-2008. The fellowship includes full financial support for one year as well as the advising and technical expertise of an Intel mentor. I would like to thank everyone that supported my application: my advisor Josep Torrellas, members of the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab, particularly Mike Kozuch, Phil Gibbons and Todd Mowry, as well as Yuanyuan Zhou at UIUC.

We had a paper on Variation accepted to the ASGI workshop that will be held with ISCA this year. If you are interested in the subject, please check it out. Feedback is welcome and appreciated! Many thanks to everyone that worked hard on this!

I received the David J. Kuck Thesis Award for my Master's Thesis. I am very grateful to the Computer Science Department for this honor. I would also like to extend a special thank you to my donor, Dr. Ron Cytron for his generous contribution.

We went to Chicago for the weekend. Here are some pictures we took. They include the recently constructed Millennium Park.

I had an article accepted for publication in IEEE Micro Magazine. You can find a draft version here.

I'm going to Intel Pittsburgh for an internship, this summer. I'm going to be working on Log-Based Architectures.

I finally added some pictures. More coming soon!

My new website is on-line. It's still under construction, new sections will be added soon.