Mark D. Hill Gene M. Amdahl Professor of Computer Sciences and Electrical & Computer Engineering

By Bob Rashid in 2006

Current Graduate Students

Arkaprava Basu , co-supervised with Mike Swift.

Jayneel Gandhi , co-supervised with Mike Swift.

Lena Olson

Jason Power , co-supervised with David Wood.

Academic Ancestors

1000 years of academic ancestors include two saints, Copernicus, Erasmus, and Leibniz: PDF

25 Years at Wisconsin (2/2013)

With Several Ph.D. Graduates at Celebration of Mark Hill's 25 Years at Wisconsin: Sarita Adve, Min Xu, Madhu Talluri, Milo Martin Mark Hill, Mike Marty, Shubu Mukherjee, and Jayram Bobba. Mark's new jacket reads: 25 Years of Cache Hits.

Ph.D. Graduates and Academic Posterity

Richard E. Kessler, Ph.D. July 1991, Analysis of Multi-Megabyte Secondary CPU Cache Memories (Genealogy), first employment: Cray Research.

Sarita V. Adve, Ph.D. November 1993, Designing Memory Consistency Models for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: Rice University.

• Vijay S. Pai, Rice 2000, first employment: Rice
  • Yung Ryn Choe, Purdue 2007, first employment: Purdue postdoc
  • Qasim Ali, Purdue 2009 (co-advisor Sam Midkiff), first employment: VMware
  • Gautam Upadhyaya, Purdue 2010 (co-advisor Sam Midkiff), first employment: Intel
  • Derek Schuff, Purdue 2010, first employment: Google
  • Jagadeesh Dyaberi, Purdue 2011, first employment: Saavn
• Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Rice 2000, first employment: Compaq
  • Justin Moore, Duke 2005 (co-advisor Jeff Chase), first employment: Google
  • Kevin Leigh, Houston 2007 (co-advisor Jaspal Subhlok), first employment: HP
• Christopher J. Hughes, Illinois 2003, first employment: Intel
• Ruchira Sasanka, Illinois 2005, first employment: Intel
• Jayanth Srinivasan, Illinois 2006, first employment: McKinsey
• Xiaodong (Jerry) Li, Illinois 2008, first employment: Deutsche Bank
• Man-Lap (Alex) Li, Illinois 2009, first employment: George Washington University
• Pradeep Ramachandran, Illinois 2011, first employment: Intel

Madhusudhan (Madhu) Talluri, Ph.D. August 1995, Use of Superpages and Subblocking in the Address Translation Hierarchy (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: Sun Microsystems.

Ioannis (Yannis) Schoinas, Ph.D. 1998, Fine Grain Distributed Shared Memory Systems on Clusters of Workstations (Genealogy), first employment: Intel Corporation.

Shubhendu (Shubu) Mukherjee, Ph.D. May 1998, Design and Evaluation of Network Interfaces for System Area Networks (Genealogy), first employment: Digital Equipment Corporation.

• Mithuna Thottethodi, Duke 2002 (co-advisor Alvin Lebeck), first employment: Purdue
  • Nauman Rafique, Purdue 2008, first employment: Google

Trishul Chilimbi, Ph.D. August 1999, Cache-Conscious Data Structures--Design and Implementation (Genealogy), first employment: Microsoft Corporation (co-advisor with James R. Larus).

Eric Schnarr, Ph.D. December 2000, Applying Programming Language Implementation Techniques to Processor Simulation (Genealogy), first employment: Hypercosm Corporation (co-advisor with James R. Larus).

Anastasia (Natassa) Ailamaki, Ph.D. December 2000, Architecture-Conscious Database Systems (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: Carnegie-Mellon University (co-advisor with David DeWitt).

• Stavros Harizopoulos, CMU 2006, first employment: MIT postdoc
• Mengzhi Wang, CMU 2006, first employment: Google
• Chistopher B. Colohan, CMU 2006 (co-advisor Todd Mowry), first employment: Google
• Shimin Chen, CMU 2006 (co-advisor Todd Mowry), first employment: Intel
• Minglong Shao, CMU 2007, first employment: Netapp
• Stratos Papadomanolakis, CMU 2007, first employment: Oracle
• Nikolaos Hardavellas (co-advisor Babak Falsafi), CMU 2009, first employment: Northwestern University
• Ryan Johnson, CMU 2011, first employment: University of Toronto
• Debabrata Dash, CMU 2011, first employment: HP Labs
• Ippokratis Pandis, CMU 2011, first employment: IBM Almaden

Milo Martin, Ph.D. December 2003, Token Coherence (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: University of Pennsylvania.

• Sebastian Burckhardt, Penn 2007 (co-advisor Rajeev Alur), first employment: Microsoft Research
• Colin Blundell, Penn 2010, first employment: IBM Research
• Santosh Nagarakatte, Penn 2012, first employment: Rutgers University

Min Xu, Ph.D. May 2006, Race Recording for Multithreaded Deterministic Replay using Multiprocessor Hardware, (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: VMware (co-advisor with Rastislav Bodik).

Brian Fields, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, December 2006, Using Criticality to Attack Performance Bottlenecks (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: NVIDIA (co-advisor with Rastislav Bodik).

Michael R. Marty, Ph.D. January 2008, Cache Coherence Techniques for Multicore Processors (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: Google.

Luke Yen, Ph.D. February 2009, Signatures in Transactional Memory Systems (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: AMD.

Jayaram Bobba , Ph.D. February 2010, Hardware Support for Efficient Transactional and Supervised Memory Systems (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: Intel.

Derek R. Hower, Ph.D. July 2012, Acoherent Shared Memory (Talk, Genealogy), first employment: AMD Postdoc.

Four Generations of Computer Architects

At ISCA 2008 Awards Luncheon (Beijing, China), David Patterson (receiving Eckhart-Mauchly Award) who co-advised Mark Hill who advised Sarita Adve (receiving Maurice Wilkes Award) who advised Partha Ranganathan.

Milo Martin and Mark Hill with ENIAC (2006)