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
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 […]
SAFARI Live Seminar: Konstantina Koliogeorgi, January 29 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar: Speaker: Konstantina Koliogeorgi, MicroLab, NTUA Date: Monday, January 29 2024, 17:00 Zurich time (CET) Where: ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link) Title: Software/Hardware Co-design […]
SAFARI Live Seminar: Abdullah Giray Yaglikci, February 2 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar: Speaker: Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zürich Date: Friday, February 2, 17:00 Zurich time (CET). Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link) […]
SAFARI Live Seminar: Abdullah Giray Yaglikci, January 17 2024
Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar: Speaker: Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zürich Date: Wednesday, January 17 2024, 17:00 Zurich time (CET) Where: ETZ E81 & […]
ACM Student Research Competition at PACT 2023
We attended PACT 2023 in Vienna, October 21-25, and several of our students presented at the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The ACM SRC is a forum for graduate and […]
Mohammad Sadrosadati joins the MICRO Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Mohammad Sadrosadati on being inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame! The MICRO Hall of Fame recognizes authors who have had eight or more papers published in MICRO. […]
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) […]
Christina Giannoula receives Best Doctoral Thesis Award
We’d like to congratulate Christina Giannoula on receiving the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from her home university National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) for her PhD thesis on “Accelerating Irregular […]
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 […]