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Jichuan Chang
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## Work Address:
    1210 W. Dayton Street
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Sciences Department
    Madison, WI 53706

## Office: (608)-262-6618 
## Fax:    (608)-262-9777 
## Email:  chang@cs.wisc.edu
## http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chang


Research Interests
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Computer architecture: focusing on cache/memory hierarchy design for
multicore systems; cache coherence, synchronization and value
communication; and hardware support to improve programmability and
reliability.

Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, expected Spring 2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Professor Guri Sohi
Dissertation: Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors

M.Sc in Computer Sciences, May 2003 (GPA 4.0/4.0)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.Sc in  Computer Sciences, July 2000 (GPA 3.95/4.0)
B.S in Computer Sciences, July 1997 (GPA 3.86/4.0)
Peking University, Beijing, China

Publications
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Available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chang/publications.html

* Jichuan Chang and Gurindar S. Sohi
  "Cooperative Cache Partitioning for Chip Multiprocessors," 
  Under submission for publication. 

* Jichuan Chang and Gurindar S. Sohi
  "Cooperative Caching for Chip Multiprocessors," 
  33rd Annual Intl. Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-33), June 2006.

* Jaehyuk Huh, Doug Burger, Jichuan Chang and Gurindar S. Sohi
  "Speculative Incoherent Cache Protocols," 
  IEEE Micro 24(6) - Micro's Top Picks, November-December 2004.

* Jaehyuk Huh, Jichuan Chang, Doug Burger and Gurindar S. Sohi
  "Coherence Decoupling: Making Use of Incoherence," 
  ASPLOS-XI, October 2004.

* Jichuan Chang, Jaehyuk Huh, Rajagopalan Desikan, 
  Doug Burger and Gurindar S. Sohi
  "Using Coherent Value Speculation to Improve Multiprocessor Performance," 
  First Value Prediction Workshop, June 2003.

* David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl and Jichuan Chang
  "Using Gauges for Architecture-based Monitoring and Adaptation,"
  Working Conference on Complex and Dynamic Systems Architecture, December 2001.

* Software engineering papers available at
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/,chang/publications.html#software_engr

Experiences
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2002-Now  ~~ Multiscalar group, University of Wisconsin-Madison
             Cache coherence and synchronization;
             Multicore caching and cache partitioning.

2001-2002 ~~ Condor project, University of Wisconsin-Madison
             Middleware and programming framework for master-worker (MW) 
             style parallel computing.

2000-2001 ~~ ABLE group, Carnegie Mellon University
             Software architecture based introspection and adaptation. 

1996-2000 ~~ Software Engineering Institute, Peking University
             Software architecture, software component composition,
             object-oriented middleware.

1998-1999 ~~ Graduate Teaching Assistant, Peking University
             Undergraduate Operating Systems.

Computer Skills
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* Computer Languages/Platforms:

    C, C++, Java, Pascal, Visual Basic, Excel, assembly languages,
    scripting languages; MS Windows/DOS, Unix/Linux, Solaris; 
    Simics-based full system simulation and Simics/MAI.

* Software Engineering Experiences:

    Object-oriented analysis and design, GUI development, 
    project management and processor improvement, 
    software architecture evaluation.

Courses Projects
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 * Secure Online Voting System using SSL and XML
 * Effect of Branch Prediction on Conjunctive Selection Evaluation
 * Fail-stutter Behavior Characterization of NFS
 * Lock Behavior Characterization of Commercial Workloads
 * Analytical Evaluation of Commercial Workloads on Multiprocessors
 * Software Controlled Prefetching on UltraSparc 
 * Decoupled Architecture for Data Prefetching
 * Fast Block Copy Support in DRAM
 * Text (close-captions) Segmentation in the Informedia project
 * Evaluation of Internet Queue Management Algorithms
 * Investigating the Consensus Problem in HLA Bridge 
 * Scalable Bio-Surveillance System Architecture 
 
Personal Information
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  * Nationality: People's Republic of China
  * Status: Student Visa (F-1)

References (available upon request)
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[ Last Updated: Jan. 2007 ]