Recruiting

I am actively recruiting highly motivated students who are ready to take on ambitious challenges. If you are interested in computer architecture research at UCLA, please feel free to send me a short email with your research interests and background.

I am broadly interested in architecture, microarchitecture, compilers and programming languages to support demanding applications on next generation hardware. Constraints on technology are pushing architects to develop customized hardware for different application scenarios, and there is growing consensus that significant degrees of heterogeneity are necessary. Much of the burden of improving computer systems will be on computer architects, not only in designing new hardware, but also in figuring out how to rapidly codesign the many components of systems (eg. compilers and architecture). This is exciting for architects because our task is critical and extremely challenging.

My research requires a variety of different skills and expertise, including:

• Strong general coding skills (C, C++, Python, …)
• Hardware Simulators and Modeling
• Compiler Implementation (LLVM, clang, GCC…)
• Application Development (databases, machine learning, computer vision…)
• Hardware design and prototyping (Verilog, Synthesis, FPGA experience…)

Guidelines

If you have some of the above skills, are passionate about architecture research, and love to work really hard, please feel free to reach out. Some guidelines:

• Please include your CV/resume, and do so in PDF format (rather than links to mysterious web-pages).
• If you want to impress me, send me PDFs of either papers/theses you have worked on, and/or a brief review of one of my previous papers (include questions and ideas for advancement).
• I mainly look through PhD/MS applications in January-February (and maybe a little in December and March), so this is the best time to reach out if you have applied.
• Also, if you are on campus, send me an email and we can find a time to chat.