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-EFCL Seminar: AMD, Research and Advanced Development Group, Oct 22 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI-EFCL Seminar: Speakers: Gagandeep Singh, Kristof Denolf & Alireza Khodamoradi AMD, Research and Advanced Development Group Date: Tuesday, Oct 22, 13:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: Livestream on […]
FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2024 talks & posters
We attended FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2024 in Santa Clara, California, August 6-8, and presented several talks and posters. Here’s an overview of our FMS 2024 contributions: August […]
Best Paper Award at ISCA 2024 for Constable
Congratulations to Rahul Bera, Adithya Ranganathan and co-authors on receiving the Best Paper Award at ISCA 2024 for their joint work “Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating […]
Meet our Members: Giray Yağlıkçı discusses his PhD work, RowHammer and future plans
Interview with Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, to appear in the SAFARI Newsletter July 2024 edition. Giray recently defended his PhD and sat down to answer a few questions about his PhD […]
RowHammer paper wins the 2024 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
We are extremely honored to have received the Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing 2024 for our ISCA’14 paper: “Flipping bits in memory without accessing them: An experimental study of […]
Join us for Track 4 at the EFCL Summer School in June
We’ll be leading Track 4 at the EFCL Summer School in June. >> May 30 UPDATE: Official registration for the summer school is closed. We have additional space for […]
SAFARI Live Seminar: Jonas Juffinger, July 16 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar: Speaker: Jonas Juffinger, IAIK, TU Graz Date: Tuesday, July 16, 14:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link) Title: […]
Keynote talk at the Qualcomm Product Security Summit May 17, 2024.
Keynote talk given by Onur Mutlu on “Future of Computer Architecture and Hardware Security” at the Qualcomm Product Security Summit in San Diego, May 17, 2024. Title: Future of Computer […]
SAFARI-EFCL Seminar: Reetu Das, May 21 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI-EFCL Seminar. This seminar is jointly hosted by the ETH Future Computing Laboratory (EFCL). Speaker: Reetu Das, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Date: Tuesday, May […]
Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı successfully defends his PhD
We’d like to wish a very warm congratulations to Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı on his successful PhD defense. Giray defended his thesis “Enabling Efficient and Scalable DRAM Read Disturbance Mitigation via […]
SAFARI Live Seminar: Boris Köpf, April 10 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar: Speaker: Boris Köpf, Microsoft Azure Research Date: Wednesday, April 10, 10:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link) & Location: CAB G59 Title: […]
RowPress chosen as a top paper for IEEE Micro Top Picks
Congratulations to Haocong Luo and co-authors for their ISCA 2023 paper “RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips”, chosen as an IEEE Micro 2024 Top Pick! IEEE Micro Top […]