SAFARI Group at Carnegie Mellon

SAFARI: Faculty

Onur Mutlu: Strecker Early Career Professor

Saugata Ghose: Special Faculty Systems Scientist

SAFARI: PhD Students

	Amirali Boroumand: Ph.D. student. B.S. CE. Sharif University of Technology, 2014.		Jeremie Kim: Ph.D. student. M.S. ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015.
	Minesh Patel: Ph.D. student. B.S. ECE, University of Texas at Austin, 2015.		Damla Senol Cali: Ph.D. student. B.S. CE, Bilkent University, 2015.

SAFARI: Associated Researchers

	Reetuparna Das: Research faculty in the EECS Department at the University of Michigan.		Donghyuk Lee: Research scientist at NVIDIA Research.
	Lavanya Subramanian: Research scientist at Facebook.		Chris Wilkerson: Researcher at Intel Labs. Chris Wilkerson works at Intel Labs where he conducts forward-looking research for future Intel processors. His research interests include energy-efficient architectures and memory systems in using resilience mechanisms to reduce power and improve performance.

SAFARI: Alumni

PhD Alumni

Nandita Vijaykumar, December 2019 (defended 11 October 2019).
Thesis title: "Enhancing Programmability, Portability, and Performance with Rich Cross-Layer Abstractions"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Kevin Hsieh, October 2019 (defended 5 September 2019).
Thesis title: "Machine Learning Systems for Highly-Distributed and Rapidly-Growing Data"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Justin Meza, May 2019 (defended December 2018).
Thesis title: "Large Scale Studies of Memory, Storage, and Network Failures in a Modern Data Center"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Yixin Luo, May 2018 (defended February 2018).
Thesis title: "Architectural Techniques for Improving NAND Flash Memory Reliability"
[Slides (pptx)]
Kevin Chang, May 2017 (defended May 2017).
Thesis title: "Understanding and Improving the Latency of DRAM-Based Memory Systems"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Rachata Ausavarungnirun, May 2017 (defended May 2017).
Thesis title: "Techniques for Shared Resource Management in Systems with Throughput Processors"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Gennady Pekhimenko, August 2016 (defended July 2016).
Thesis title: "Practical Data Compression for Modern Memory Hierarchies"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Vivek Seshadri, May 2016 (defended April 2016).
Thesis title: "Simple DRAM and Virtual Memory Abstractions to Enable Highly Efficient Memory Subsystems"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Donghyuk Lee, May 2016 (defended December 2015).
Thesis title: "Reducing DRAM Latency at Low Cost by Exploiting Heterogeneity"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Yoongu Kim, August 2015 (defended May 2015).
Thesis title: "Architectural Techniques to Enhance DRAM Scaling"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Lavanya Subramanian, August 2015 (defended April 2015).
Thesis title: "Providing High and Controllable Performance in Multicore Systems Through Shared Resource Management"
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]

Post-Doc Alumni

Samira Khan, September 2015.
Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia.
[Job Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]

Saugata Ghose, May 2017.
Currently Research Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kevin Chang, August 2017.
Currently at Facebook.

Yixin Luo, August 2018.
Currently at Google.

Rachata Ausavarungnirun, May 2019.
Currently at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok.

Graduate Student Alumni

Ameya Ambardekar: Intern, M.S. ECE, May 2013.
Chris Craik: M.S. ECE, Aug 2011.
Master's Report: Investigating the Viability of Bufferless NoCs in Modern Chip Multi-Processor Systems.
Parag Dixit: Intern, M.S. ECE, May 2013
John Greth: Intern, M.S. ECE, May 2015.
Chris Fallin: M.S. ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2011.
Mohammad Fattah: Intern, PhD student at University of Turku, Finland, in progress.
Matthias Grundmann: Intern, PhD student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in progress.
Tyler Huberty: Intern, M.S. ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, Jan 2014.
Jamie Jablin: Intern, Ph.D. student, Brown University, Sep 2013.
Ben Jaiyen: M.S. ECE, Jan 2013.
Abhijith Kashyap: M.S. ECE, May 2016.
Jamie Liu: M.S. ECE, Jan 2013.
Youyou Lu: Intern, Ph.D. student, Tsinghua University, in progress.
Justin Meza: M.S. ECE, May 2014.
Jinglei Ren: Intern, Ph.D. student, Tsinghua University, in progress.
Eddie Sears: Masters student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
Hui Wang: Intern, Ph.D. student. Beihang University, in progress.
Ying Wang: Intern, Ph.D. student, Chinese Academy of Science, in progress.
Gulay Yalcin: Intern, Ph.D., UPC. Student researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Samihan Yedkar: Intern, M.S. ECE, Jan 2013.
Hanbin Yoon: M.S. ECE, May 2013.
Master's Report: Techniques for Data Mapping and Buffering to Exploit Asymmetry in Multi-Level Cell (Phase Change) Memory.
Jishen Zhao: Intern, Assistant Professor, University of California.

Undergraduate Student Alumni

Hitesh Arora: Summer undergraduate intern, 2013. IIT Guwahati, India.
Abhishek Bhowmick: Intern, B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Albert Cho: Undergraduate intern, 2014. B.S. ECE CMU, May 2015.
Arnab Ghosh: Undergraduate researcher, 2014. B.S. IIT Kanpur, May 2015.
John Emmons: Undergraduate intern, Electrical Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis.
Rachael Harding: Undergraduate researcher, 2010. B.S. ECE CMU, Dec 2010. Currently a PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yuchen Hao: Summer undergraduate intern, 2012. Tsinghua University, May 2012.
Jeremie Kim: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
Greg Nazario: Summer undergraduate intern, 2011. Senior B.S. student, CMU.
Harsha Rastogi: Summer undergraduate intern, 2012. BITS Pilani, India.
Weikun Yang: Summer undergraduate intern, 2014. Peking University, May 2015.
Xiangyao Yu: Summer undergraduate intern, 2011. Tsinghua University, May 2011. Currently a PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

High School Student Alumni

Aaron Cutright: Summer Intern, Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Senior, 2014

Visiting Scholar Alumni

Jongmoo Choi: Visiting professor. Dankook University, South Korea.
Hiroyuki Usui: Visiting researcher. Toshiba Corporation.