July 2025
Akshitha Sriraman Wins an Inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
Congratulations to Akshitha as she receives an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of her work in HW/SW Co-Design and Acceleration. These new awards from Google for ML and systems pioneers in academia are going to more than 50 assistant professors in 27 U.S. universities whose research is particularly noteworthy for Google. Akshitha will participate in a future symposium with her fellow awardees and will liaise with a Google technical point-of-contact to facilitate further research.
-- info from https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ml-systems-junior-faculty-awards/
June 2025
Dimitrios Skarlatos and Todd Mowry Recieve Amazon Research Awards!
Congratulations to Dimitrios and Todd on receiving 2025 Amazon Research Awards. Amazon Research Awards to support work in areas such as artificial intelligence, cryptography and automated reasoning. The awards recognize innovative academic work with the potential for broad societal and scientific impact, and provide recipients with unrestricted funding, Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits, and access to Amazon’s cloud computing tools and public datasets. Todd Mowry, a professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), has been awarded for his project, "Efficient LLM Serving on Trainium via Kernel Generation." Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in CSD, was awarded for his project, "Scale-Out FHE LLMs on GPUs." Recipients have access to more than 700 Amazon public datasets and can use AWS services and tools. They also consult with an Amazon research contact and can participate in Amazon events and training sessions.
-- info from
CMU SCS News, June 13, 2025.
June 2025
Dimitrios Skarlatos Wins IEEE TCCA Young Architect Award at ISCA '25!
We are please to announce that Dimitrios has been recognized as the IEEE TCCA 2025 Young Architect!
The award recognizes outstanding research contributions by an individual in the field of Computer Architecture, who received his/her PhD degree within the last 6 years. It is awarded annually at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), this year held in Tokyo, Japan. Dimitrios was named for his contributions to virtual memory management and computer security. Dimitrios is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University where he leads the CAOS group. His research bridges computer architecture and operating systems focusing on performance, security, and scalability, and current work follows two central themes: (a) uncovering security vulnerabilities and building defenses at the boundary between hardware and OS, and (b) re-designing abstractions and interfaces between the two layers to improve performance and scalability.
-- info from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dskarlat and https://ieeetcca.org/awards/young-computer-architect-award/
February 2025
Zhihao Jia a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow
Congratulations to Zhihao Jia, who has been named a Sloan Research Fellows of 2025. The 126 scholars awarded this honor represent the most promising early-career scientists working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.
Zhihao's research interests lie in the intersection of computer systems and machine learning (ML). In particular, his current research focuses on building efficient, scalable, and high-performance software systems for emerging ML applications, such as large language models and generative AI tasks.
-- info from https://sloan.org/fellowships/2025-fellows
January 2025
Gauri Joshi Named 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer
The PDL along with the IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Gauri Joshi has been named the 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer. The Goldsmith Lecturer is a woman, no more than ten years beyond having her highest degree conferred, selected for the quality of her research contributions in information theory and related areas and her ability to deliver an excellent lecture at one of the Society's Schools of Information Theory. Gauri will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the 2025 Information Theory Schools.
Gauri’s research focuses on performance analysis and optimization of computing systems using a broad range of tools from probability, coding theory, and machine learning. She is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at CMU, with courtesy/affiliate appointments in the Machine Learning department (MLD) and the Robotics Institute (RI). Before joining CMU in Fall 2017, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. from MIT EECS in 2016 and received my B.Tech and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010.
-- info from IEEE Information Theory Society and CMU ECE News
January 2025
Ziyue Qiu Wins Best Paper at ValueTools 2024!
Congratulations to Ziyue Qiu, and her co-authors Juncheng Yang and Mor Harchol-Balter who brought home the best paper award at the 17th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools) held in Milan, Italy in December 2024. Their work asks "Can Increasing the Hit Ratio Hurt Cache Throughput?" and ultimately shows that increasing the hit ratio can actually hurt the throughput (and request latency) for many caching algorithms.
November 2024
Sophia (Qingyang) Cao
Wins ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP 2024!
Congratulations to Sophia on winning the ACM Student Research contest at SOSP this year. To participate, for the first round, she had to submit an abstract of her research. In the second round, semi-finalists had to present a poster detailing their research. In the final round she gave a presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, the contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Sophia's research on "Possum: A Tail of Dynamic Flash Capacity for Sustainability" investigates managing flash storage density for improved performance and device endurance.
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