Group Head
Research Faculty
Saugata Ghose, Dr. (at CMU)
Computer Architecture | Memory Systems | Bioinformatics | Processing-In-Memory
Senior Researchers
Mohammed Alser, Dr.
Bioinformatics | Computational Genomics | Hardware/Software Cooperation | Specialized/Heterogeneous Computing Systems | Processing-in-Memory
Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Dr. (at CMU)
GPUs | Heterogeneous computing | Interconnection Networks | Memory Systems
Juan Gómez Luna, Dr.
Processing-In-Memory | Heterogeneous computing | Memory Systems | Bioinformatics | Medical imaging
Lois Orosa, Dr.
Hardware Security | Memory Systems | Neural Networks | Processing-In-Memory | Hardware Reliability | Microarchitecture
Jawad Haj-Yahya, Dr.
Energy efficient computing | Power management architecture | Power modeling | Hardware security | Machine learning hardware | Design Verification | Compilers
Jisung Park, Dr.
Computer Architecture | Memory Systems | Storage Systems | NAND Flash Memory | System Security
PhD Students
Rahul Bera
Memory systems | Prefetching | Near memory computing
Amirali Boroumand (at CMU)
Processing-In-Memory | Heterogeneous computing | Mobile Systems
Lukas Breitwieser (at CERN)
Parallel Computing | High-Performance Computing | Distributed Systems | Large-Scale Simulations | Medical Applications | Heterogeneous Systems
Geraldo De Oliveira Junior
Processing-In-Memory | Memory Latency | Simulation
Can Firtina
Genome Assembly | Sequence Analysis & Alignment | Biologically-Inspired Computing Paradigms | Brain-Computer Interfaces | Phase-change memory
Nastaran Hajinazar (visiting from Simon Fraser University)
Virtual Memory | Memory Systems
Hasan Hassan
Memory Systems | DRAM | Near-memory processing | Hardware security
Kevin Hsieh (at CMU)
Machine learning systems | Large-scale data analytics systems | Distributed systems | Processing-in-memory architectures | Domain-specific accelerators
Jeremie Kim
DRAM power/reliability/performance | Genome Sequence Analysis & Alignment | Hardware/Software Cooperation | Processing-in-Memory | Core Microarchitecture
Minesh Patel
DRAM power/reliability/performance | Core microarchitecture | OS/Compiler-HW interaction | Statistical modeling and simulation | Embedded systems
Ivan Puddu
Hardware security | Systems security
Damla Senol (at CMU)
Hardware acceleration for bioinformatics tools | Genome sequence analysis tools | Hardware/Software Cooperation | Processing-in-Memory | Memory systems
Giray Yaglikci
Memory Systems | DRAM
Masters Students
Roknoddin Azizibarzoki
DRAM power/reliability/performance
Taha Shahroodi
System security | Bioinformatics | Memory systems | DRAM | Near-memory processing
João Dinis Sanches Ferreira
Academic Guests
Christina Giannoula (PhD student, National Technical University of Athens)
Architecture-Aware High Performance Computing | Algorithm Engineering | Processing-in-Memory Architectures | Hardware/Software Cooperation
Neethu Bal Mallya
Memory Systems | Near-memory Processing | Simulation
Chandan Kumar Jha (PhD student, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)
Memory Systems | Near-memory Processing | In-Memory Computing
Interns
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos
Hardware/Software Interfaces | Hardware Security
Nika Mansourighiasi
Processing-In-Memory | Emerging Memory & Processing Technologies
Ataberk Olgun
DRAM | Memory Systems
Bachelor Students
Ege Karaismailoglu
Burak Kaya
Lara Lazier
Batuhan Tömekce
Group Management
Christian Rossi Executive Assistant: Mon – Fri (afternoons)
Personnel, HR | Finances & Accounting | Office Management
Tracy Ewen, Dr.
Communications | eLearning | Project Funding
SAFARI Alumni and former group members
Ivan Fernandez-Vega (Visiting PhD student, University of Malaga, April – Nov 2019)
Nandita Vijaykumar (PhD defended Oct 2019, now at: Intel US)
Kevin Hsieh (PhD defended Sept 2019, now at: Microsoft Research)
Kalliopi Tzimi (Intern Aug – Nov 2019, now at: IMEC)
Soramichi Akiyama, Prof. (University of Tokyo) (Visiting Professor, Apr – Oct 2019)
Skanda Koppula (Fulbright Scholar 2018-2109, now at: Google DeepMind)
Pranjali Jain (Intern 2019)
Mohamed Hasan (Intern, D-INFK Summer Research Fellow, Universität Stuttgart, summer 2019)
Yusen Li, Prof. (Nankai University) (Visiting Professor, summer 2019)
Alumni, former SAFARI group members at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)