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

Lukas Breitwieser successfully defends his PhD

We were very excited to celebrate two successful PhD defenses on Monday, November 11, 2024! We’d like to wish Lukas Breitwieser and Can Firtina a very warm congratulations on their […]

Student Assistant for SAFARI Video Processing Tasks

Description: “Onur Mutlu Lectures” is a popular YouTube channel through which we share cutting-edge research, lectures, and talks on computer architecture, bioinformatics, hardware/software co-design, and more. We are committed to […]

Can Firtina successfully defends his PhD

We were very excited to celebrate two successful PhD defenses last Monday, November 11, 2024!  We’d like to wish Lukas Breitwieser and Can Firtina a very warm congratulations on their […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Arnau Montagud, Nov 12 2024

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar:  Speaker: Arnau Montagud, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), CSIC-UV and Barcelona Supercomputing Center Date: Tuesday, Nov 12, 11:00 Zurich time (CET) Where: […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Hari Sadasivan, Nov 27 2024

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar:  Speaker: Harisankar (Hari) Sadasivan, AMD AI Group & University of Washington Date: Wednesday, Nov 27, 17:00 Zurich time (CET) Where: Livestream on YouTube […]

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 […]