SAFARI Live Seminars 2021-present  YouTube Playlist

Upcoming Talks:


Date: Friday, February 2 2024, 17:00 Zurich time (CET).
Speaker: Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zürich
Title: Efficiently and Scalably Mitigating RowHammer in Modern and Future DRAM-Based Memory Systems 
Where: ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Past Talks:

Date: Monday, January 29 2024, 17:00 Zurich time (CET) 
Speaker: Konstantina Koliogeorgi, MicroLab, NTUA
Title: Software/Hardware Co-design and Dataflow acceleration for Short Read Alignment
Where: ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Date: Wednesday, January 17 2024, 17:00 Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zürich
Title: A Deeper Look into RowHammer’s Characteristics in Real Modern DRAM Chips
Where:
ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Date: Tuesday, October 17 2023, 18:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Yanjing Li, University of Chicago
Title: How does one bit-flip corrupt an entire deep neural network, and what to do about it
Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Date: Wednesday, October 4 2023, 14:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Minesh Patel, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich (former PhD student)
Title:  Reshaping DRAM Scaling by Enabling System-Memory Cooperation
Where: HG E23 & Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Date: Wednesday, September 27 2023, 9:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Hasindu Gamaarachchi, UNSW Sydney
Title: An Ecosystem for Scalable & Computationally Efficient Nanopore Data Processing
Where: Livestream on YouTube (Link)


Date: Thursday, September 14 2023, 14:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Skanda Koppula, Google DeepMind
Title: An Introduction to Multimodal Understanding: Building Models to See, Hear, and Read the World
Where:
ETZ E9


Date: Tuesday, August 29 2023, 15:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Amro Awad, NC State
Title: High-Performance and Crash-Recoverable Security Support for Emerging Memory Architectures
Where: 
Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Monday, August 21 2023, 15:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Oguz Ergin, Kasirga Microprocessors Lab, TOBB ETÜ
Title:  A Potpourri of Ideas and Results in DRAM, FPGA Infrastructures, and RISC-V Processors 
Where: Livestream on YouTube Link & ETZ J 91


Date: Wednesday, July 12 2023, 10:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Jihong KimSeoul National University
Title: Cross-Layer SSD Optimizations by Exploiting 3D Flash Memory Characteristics
Where: 
ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Thursday, July 6 2023, 17:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Christina Giannoula, University of Toronto
Title: DaeMon: Architectural Support for Efficient Data Movement in Disaggregated Memory Systems
Where: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Monday, June 26 2023, 10:30 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Anish Saxena, Georgia Tech
Title: Secure and Scalable Rowhammer Defenses
Where:
HG E22 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Friday, June 2 2023, 11:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Ercument Cicek, Bilkent University (currently on sabbatical at EPFL)
Title: Detecting Copy Number Variants on Exome Sequencing Data via Deep Learning
Where:
ETZ E81 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Wednesday, May 17 2023, 17:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Jian HuangUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: The ISA of Modern Storage Systems: Interface, Specialization, and Approach 
Where: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Friday, May 12 2023, 11:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Lizy Kurian John, UT Austin
Title: Hardware for ML and ML for Hardware
Where: HG F 26.1
& Livestream on YouTube Link
Co-organized by EFCL


Date:  Tuesday, April 18 2023, ​​16:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Yiran Chen, Duke University
Title: Software-Hardware Co-design of Edge AI Systems
Where: ML E12 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date:  Tuesday, April 4 2023 at ​​14:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Simone Campanoni, ARCANA research lab, Northwestern University
Title: Evolving abstractions within and around compilers to support modern hardware and application trends
Where: HG E 23 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Wednesday, March 29 2023 at 13:00 Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker:  Haiyu Mao, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
Title: GenPIP: In-Memory Acceleration of Genome Analysis via Tight Integration of Basecalling and Read Mapping

Where: HG D 5.3 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Tuesday, December 13 2022 at 1:00 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker:  Oskar Mencer, CEO Maxeler Technologies, a Groq Company
Title:  Groq, Deterministic Low Latency Supercomputing at Scale
Where: CHN E42 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Monday, December 12 2022 at 4:00 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Ataberk Olgun, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
Title: MetaSys: Cross-Layer Optimization with a Practical Open-source Metadata Management System
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Wednesday, December 7 2022 at 4:15 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Gagandeep Singh, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
Title:  Sibyl: Adaptive and Extensible Data Placement in Hybrid Storage Systems Using Online Reinforcement Learning
Where: ETZ G91 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Tuesday, November 29 at 11:00 am Zurich time (CET)
Speaker:  Orian Leitersdorf, Technion
Title:  Fast Reliable Digital Processing-in-Memory
Where:
ETZ H91 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Monday, November 28 at 3:00 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Christian Pilato, Politecnico di Milano
Title: Modern trends in accelerator design with high-level synthesis
Where: HG E23 & Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Wednesday, November 9 at 4:00 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Christina Giannoula, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA
Title: Accelerating Irregular Applications via Efficient Synchronization and Data Access Techniques
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Monday, November 7 at 4:00 pm Zurich time (CET)
Speaker: Lana Josipovic, DYNAMO Research Group, ETH Zurich
Title: From C/C++ code to high‐performance dataflow circuits
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link

Date: Tuesday, October 25 at 4:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Sudhanva Gurumurthi, AMD
Title: HBM3 RAS: The Journey to Enhancing Die-Stacked DRAM Resilience at Scale
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Joint EFLC & SAFARI Live Seminar
Date:
Wednesday, October 19 at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Saugata GhoseARCANA Research GroupUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: Enabling Practical Processing Using Emerging Memories
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Tuesday, September 27 at 1:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Poulami Das, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:  Software and Architecture for Reliable Quantum Computing
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Thursday, September 15 at 3:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Hasan Hassan, SAFARI Research Group
Title: Improving DRAM Performance, Reliability, and Security by Rigorously Understanding Intrinsic DRAM Operation
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Thursday, June 9 2022 at 3:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Rakesh Kumar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Title: Performance is All About Instruction Supply
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Date: Tuesday, May 31 2022 at 6:30 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Speaker: Behzad Salami, SAFARI Research Group
Title: Understanding the Reliability and Power-Efficiency Trade-offs of Modern FPGAs through Undervolting
Link: Livestream on YouTube Link


Monday 28 February 2022, 6:00 pm Zurich time
Sean Lie, co-founder and Chief Hardware Architect at Cerebras Systems
Thinking Outside the Die: Architecting the ML Accelerator of the Future
Livestream on YouTube Link


Thursday 10 February 2022, 5:00 pm Zurich time
Lois Orosa, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations
Livestream on YouTube Link


Wednesday 2 February 2022, 11:00 am Zurich time
Fabrice Devaux, CTO, UPMEM
Introduction to the UPMEM DPU Architecture
Livestream on YouTube Link


Monday 20 December 2021, 5:00 pm Zurich time
Rahul Bera, SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
Pythia: A Customizable Hardware Prefetching Framework Using Online Reinforcement Learning
Livestream on YouTube Link


Thursday 11 November 2021
Serghei Mangul, Mangul Lab, USC
Opportunities and challenges of computational data-driven immunology
Livestream on YouTube at 11:00 am Zurich time (CET) Link
ETH Zentrum ETZ K91 (in person!)


Monday 08 November 2021
Gennady PekhimenkoUniversity of TorontoEcoSystem group
Machine Learning Tools in Action
Livestream on YouTube at 4:00 pm Zurich time (CET) Link


Sunday 07 November 2021
Damla Senol Cali, Bionano Genomics
Accelerating Genome Sequence Analysis via Efficient Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design
Livestream on YouTube at 6:00 pm Zurich time (CET) Link


Wednesday 27 October 2021
Nastaran Hajinazar, SAFARI Research Group
Data-Centric and Data-Aware Frameworks for Fundamentally Efficient Data Handling in Modern Computing Systems
Livestream on YouTube at 7:00 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Monday 04 October 2021
Jawad Haj-Yahya, Huawei Research Center Zurich
Security Implications of Power Management Mechanisms In Modern Processors, Current Studies and Future Trends
Livestream on YouTube at 5:30 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Monday 27 September 2021
Christina Giannoula, National Technical University of Athens
SynCron: Efficient Synchronization Support for Near-Data-Processing Architectures
Livestream on YouTube at 5:30 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link

Tuesday 21 September 2021
Minesh Patel, ETH Zurich
Enabling Effective Error Mitigation in Memory Chips That Use On-Die Error-Correcting Codes
Livestream on YouTube at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)  Link



Wednesday 15 September 2021
Ataberk Olgun, TOBB University of Economics and Technology & ETH Zurich
QUAC-TRNG: High-Throughput True Random Number Generation Using Quadruple Row Activation in Commodity DRAM Chips
Livestream on YouTube at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Monday 16 August 2021
Jawad Haj-Yahya, Principal researcher at Huawei Research Center in Zurich

Thursday 05 August 2021
Gennady Pekhimenko, University of Toronto
Efficient DNN Training at Scale: from Algorithms to Hardware

Livestream on YouTube at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST)
Link


Thursday 22 July 2021
Geraldo F. Oliveira, ETH Zurich
DAMOV: A New Methodology and Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Data Movement Bottlenecks
Livestream on YouTube at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Monday 19 July 2021
Andrew Walker, Schiltron Corporation & Nexgen Power Systems
An Addiction to Low Cost Per Memory Bit – How to Recognize it and What to Do About it
Livestream on YouTube at 6:00 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Monday 12 July 2021
Juan Gomez-Luna, ETH Zurich
Understanding a Modern Processing-in-Memory Architecture: Benchmarking and Experimental Characterization
Livestream on YouTube at 5:00 pm Zurich time (CEST) Link


Friday 31 January 2020
Terry Grunzke: Challenges of DDR5 in cloud servers
10:30 CAB G 15.2


Tuesday 01 October 2019
Stefan Saroiu: Are We Susceptible to Rowhammer? An End-to-End Methodology for Cloud Providers
14:00 CAB G 51


Monday 24 June 2019
Martin Burtscher: A High-Quality and Fast Maximal Independent Set Implementation for GPUs
14:00 CHN G 42


Friday 3 May 2019
Jangwoo Kim: Next-Generation Intelligent, Cost-Effective Computer Systems
16:00 CAB G 51


Monday 1 April 2019
Siddharth GargTowards Secure Integrated Circuit (IC) Fabrication: A Foundational Perspective on Hardware Security
10:30 CAB H 52


Friday 22 March 2019
Mattan ErezCross-Layer Architecture for Deep Learning
16:00 CAB G 51


Wednesday 13 March 2019
Manu NairAlgorithms and circuit design for event-driven, in-memory computation
10:30 CHN G 46

 

Mattan Erez’s talk on 22 March 2019