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

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 […]

SAFARI Seminar: Skanda Koppula, September 14 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Seminar: Speaker: Skanda Koppula, Google DeepMind Date: Thursday, September 14 2023, 14:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: ETZ E9 Title: An Introduction to Multimodal Understanding: […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Amro Awad, August 29 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar. Speaker: Amro Awad, Associate Professor, NC State Date: Tuesday, August 29 2023, 15:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link) Title: High-Performance […]

Flash Memory Summit 2023

We attended the Flash Memory Summit, August 8-10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California, and gave several presentations. You can find all our talks and related abstracts and papers below. Check […]

Real-World PIM Tutorial at MICRO 2023

We’re excited to give another Real-World PIM tutorial, this time held at MICRO 2023.  Sunday, October 29 (held during MICRO 2023, October 28 – November 1, 2023 in Toronto, Canada). […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Oguz Ergin, August 21 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar. Speaker: Oguz Ergin, Kasirga Microprocessors Lab, TOBB ETÜ Date: Monday, August 21 2023, 15:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link) & ETZ […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Jihong Kim, July 12 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar. Speaker: Jihong Kim, Seoul National University Date: Wednesday, July 12 2023, 10:00 Zurich time (CEST) Where: ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link) […]

SAFARI highlights at ISCA 2023

Our group enjoyed several highlights this year at ISCA 2023 as we also celebrated ISCA turning 50! ISCA 2023 Presentations & Distinguished Artifact Award: Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun, Giray Yaglikci, […]

ISCA@50 Retrospective: 5 of our papers chosen

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) this year, a special retrospective of selected papers was created to mark the ISCA-50 birthday.  […]

SAFARI Live Seminar: Anish Saxena, June 26 2023

Join us for our upcoming SAFARI Live Seminar. Speaker: Anish Saxena, Georgia Tech Date: Monday, June 26 2023, 10:30 Zurich time (CEST) Where: HG E22 & Livestream on YouTube (Link) Title: […]

ISCA Distinguished Artifact Award for RowPress

We’re excited to have won a Distinguished Artifact Award at ISCA 2023 for our work “RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips”. Congratulations to Haocong Luo and co-authors Ataberk Olgun, […]