Somayeh Sardashti, PhD

I received my PhD at the department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I worked with Professor David A. Wood in the Wisconsin Multifacet Group.

email: s o m a y e h [at] c s [dot] w i s c [dot] e d u

Academic Services

Program Committee (PC) for the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2018).

External review committee (ERC) for the 23rd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2017).

External review committee (ERC) for the 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2016).

External review committee (ERC) for the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2016).

NEWS

October 2017: We published d A. Wood, "Could compression be of general use? Evaluating Memory Compression across Domains." in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 2017. Also Presented at HiPEAC 2018.

August 2016: We published "Yet Another Compressed Cache: a Low Cost Yet Effective Compressed Cache" in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 2016. Also presented in HiPEAC 2017.

December 2015: We published our book on compression mechanisms: A Primer on Compression in the Memory Hierarchy.

September 2014: "Skewed Compressed Caches" is accepted to appear in the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-47).

June 2014: My research is featured by Diversity/Career magazine.

April 2014: I received UW-Madison Graduate Peer Mentor Awards.

January 2014: Decoupled Compressed Cache is selected for IEEE Micro top picks from the 2013 computer architecture conferences.

December 2013: I presented Decoupled Compressed Cache at International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46) in Davis, California.

October 2013: Our patent is chosen as one of the Seven Finalists in Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) innovation awards, 2013.