The SAFARI Research Group is led by Professor Onur Mutlu.  We are part of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zurich.

Our group conducts cutting-edge research and education in computer architecture, computing systems, hardware security, bioinformatics, and software/hardware co-design. The major goal is to design fundamentally better computing architectures. Our work spans the boundaries between applications, systems, languages, system software, compilers, and hardware, with architecture at the core. We tackle many fundamental issues in high performance, energy efficiency, hardware security, fault tolerance, predictable systems, dependable systems, hardware/software cooperation, and genome analysis. We are especially excited about novel, fundamentally-secure and fundamentally-efficient computation, communication and memory/storage paradigms. Recent impactful examples of the group’s work include leading research into memory/storage systems and new computing paradigms, e.g., the discovery of the DRAM RowHammer vulnerability and the development of a comprehensive Processing-in-Memory paradigm.

Read our group's contribution to the 2021 D-ITET evaluation report, highlighting our research impact, teaching and key group contributions: SAFARI 2021 D-ITET Evaluation

Bachelor and Master's Theses and Semester Projects 

We are always looking for highly qualified and motivated students and researchers.  If you are an ETH student and are interested in doing a bachelor or master's thesis with us, or a semester project, please see our Theses and Projects page for potential topics.

If you are about to finish your bachelor or master’s degree or are already doing research and are interested in working with us at any level (internship, PhD, postdoc, visiting scholar), please visit our Work with us page.


SAFARI News

SAFARI contributions at MICRO 2023

We attended MICRO 2023 in Toronto, Oct 28-Nov 1, and had several contributions: we gave another successful Real-World PIM tutorial, presented several papers, posters and a lightning talk, and also […]

MICRO Distinguished Artifact Award for Victima

We’re excited to have won a Distinguished Artifact Award at MICRO 2023 for our work “Victima: Drastically Increasing Address Translation Reach by Leveraging Underutilized Cache Resources”. Only one paper (Victima) […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Yanjing Li, October 17 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar:  Speaker: Yanjing Li, University of Chicago Date: Tuesday, October 17 2023, 18:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link) Title: How does […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Minesh Patel, October 4 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar:  Speaker: Minesh Patel, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich (former PhD student) Date: Wednesday, October 4 2023, 14:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: HG E23 & […]

SRC TECHCON 2023 talks in Austin, TX

We were at TECHCON 2023 in Austin, Texas, Sept 10-13, and presented our latest SRC research contributions.  TECHCON is SRC‘s annual meeting to connect the global semiconductor industry with students […]