Engin Ipek
Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Platform Architecture
Former Associate Professor of CS & ECE, University of Rochester
Email: dr.engin.ipek@gmail.com
Research interests: computer architecture, memory systems, energy-efficient computing
Honors and Awards
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‣ ISCA Hall of Fame, 2020.
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‣ NVMW Persistent Impact Prize, 2020.
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‣ Honorable Mention for IEEE Micro Top Picks, 2019.
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‣ IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture, 2017.
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‣ HPCA Distinguished Paper Award, 2016.
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‣ IEEE Computer Society TCCA Young Computer Architect Award, 2014.
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‣ IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture, 2013.
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‣ ACM TOCS Invited Article, 2013.
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‣ National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2011.
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‣ ASPLOS Best Paper Award, 2010.
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‣ Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, 2010.
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‣ IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture, 2009.
Selected Publications (All publications on my CV and on Google Scholar)
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‣ An Analog Preconditioner for Solving Linear Systems (HPCA'21)
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‣ Commutative Data Reordering: A New Technique to Reduce Data Movement Energy on Sparse Inference Workloads (ISCA'20)
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‣ Enabling Scientific Computing on Memristive Accelerators (ISCA'18)
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‣ Making Memristive Neural Network Accelerators Reliable (HPCA'18)
Honorable Mention for IEEE Micro Top Picks. -
‣ Voltage Regulator Efficiency Aware Power Management (ASPLOS'17)
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‣ Reducing Data Movement Energy via Online Data Clustering and Encoding (MICRO'16)
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‣ Memristive Boltzmann Machine: A Hardware Accelerator for Combinatorial Optimization and Deep Learning (HPCA’16)
Distinguished Paper Award. IEEE Micro Top Picks. -
‣ Back To the Future: Current-Mode Processors in the Era of Deeply Scaled CMOS (TVLSI'16)
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‣ Reducing Switching Latency and Energy in STT-MRAM Caches with Field-Assisted Writing (TVLSI'16)
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‣ More is Less: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Data Movement via Opportunistic Use of Sparse Codes (MICRO'15)
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‣ DESC: Energy Efficient Data Exchange using Synchronized Counters (MICRO’13)
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‣ AC-DIMM: Associative Computing with STT-MRAM (ISCA’13)
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‣ PARDIS: A Programmable Memory Controller for the DDRx Interfacing Standards (ISCA’12)
IEEE Micro Top Picks. ACM TOCS Invited Article. -
‣ A Resistive TCAM Accelerator for Data Intensive Computing (MICRO’11)
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‣ Resistive Computation: Avoiding the Power-Wall with Low-Leakage, STT-MRAM Based Computing (ISCA’10)
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‣ Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories (ASPLOS’10)
Best Paper Award. -
‣ Phase-Change Technology and the Future of Main Memory (IEEE Micro’10)
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‣ Phase-Change Memory Architecture and the Quest for Scalability (CACM’10)
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‣ Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory (SOSP’09) 800+ citations.
2020 Persistent Impact Prize. -
‣ Architecting Phase-Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative (ISCA’09) 1,400+ citations.
IEEE Micro Top Picks. CACM Research Highlights. -
‣ Coordinated Management of Multiple Interacting Resources in CMPs: A Machine Learning Approach (MICRO’08)
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‣ Self-Optimizing Memory Controllers: A Reinforcement Learning Approach (ISCA’08)
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‣ Core Fusion: Accommodating Software Diversity in Chip Multiprocessors (ISCA’07)
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‣ Utilizing Dynamically Coupled Cores to Form a Resilient Chip Multiprocessor (DSN’07)
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‣ Efficiently Exploring Architectural Design Spaces via Predictive Modeling (ASPLOS’06)
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‣An Approach to Performance Prediction for Parallel Applications (EuroPAR’05)
Teaching
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‣Computer Architecture
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‣Computer Organization
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‣Advanced Topics in Memory Systems
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‣Analytical and Stochastic Modeling of Computer Systems
Professional Activities
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‣ Conference Program Committee: IEEE Micro Top Picks'21, ISCA'21, HPCA'21, MICRO'20, DAC'20, ITC'19, MICRO'18, IEEE Micro Top Picks'18, HPCA'18, MICRO'17, DAC'17, HPCA'17, ICS'16, DAC'16, ISCA'16, HPCA'16, DAC'15, ISCA'15, HPCA'15, CF'14, NPC'14, MICRO'13, ICCD'13, MICRO'12, IISWC'12, ICCD'12, ISPASS’12, IPDPS’11, ICCD’11, ICCD’10, MICRO'09, ICCD'09
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‣ Conference Organizing Committee: HPCA’12, ISCA’11, HPCA’11, IISWC’11, IISWC’10, IISWC'08
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‣ Workshop Program Committee: HotPower'16, HotPower'13, NDCA’11, SMART’11, SMART'10
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‣ Workshop Co-organizer: EAMA’10 (with ISCA), NDCA'09 (with MICRO), EAMA'09 (with HPCA)
Ph.D. Graduates
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‣ Xiaochen Guo, Ph.D.'15, ECE
First Job: Assistant Professor of ECE, Lehigh University
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‣ Qing Guo, Ph.D.'15, CS
First Job: Senior Architect, NVidia
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‣ Yanwei Song, Ph.D.'16, ECE
First Job: Software Developer, Tower Research Capital
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‣ Yuxin Bai, Ph.D.'16, ECE
First Job: Power and Performance Software Engineer, Apple
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‣ Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi, Ph.D.'16, ECE
First Job: Assistant Professor of CS, University of Utah
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‣ Shibo Wang, Ph.D.'17, CS
First Job: Software Engineer, Google
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‣ Benjamin Feinberg, Ph.D.'19, ECE
First Job: Postdoc, Sandia National Laboratories






