David A. Wood

• Jason Lowe-Power
  Ph.D. July 2017
  On Heterogeneous Compute and Memory Systems<\cite>
  first employement: University of California, Davis.

• Nilay Vaish
  Ph.D. April 2017
  Optimization-based Models for Pruning Design-space for Processors,
  first employment: Google

• Marc Orr
  Ph.D. December 2016
  Communication and Coordination Paradigms for Highly-parallel Accelerators,
  first employment: Google

• Muhammad Shoaib bin Altaf
  Ph.D. December 2016
  Exploiting Simple Analytical Models for Modeling Hardware Accelerators,
  first employment: AMD Research

• Joel Hestness
  Ph.D. November 2016
  Synchronization and Coordination in Heterogeneous Processors,
  first employment: Baidu

• Rathijit Sen
  Ph.D. August 2016
  Energy-Efficient Management of Reconfigurable Computers,
  first employment: Microsoft Corporation

• Somayeh Sardashti
  Ph.D. May 2015
  Using compression for Energy-Optimized Memory Hierarchies,
  first employment: Oracle Corporation

• Yasuko Watanabe
  Ph.D. December 2011
  On Power Proportional Processors,
  first employment: AMD Research

• Dan Gibson
  
  Ph.D. December 2010
  Scalable Cores in Chip Multiprocessors,
  first employment: Google Labs (Madison)

• Kevin E. Moore
  
  Ph.D. June 2007
  Log-based Transactional Memory,
  first employment: Sun Microsystems Labs

• Bradford M. Beckmann
  
  Ph.D. August 2006
  Managing Wire Delay in Chip Multiprocessor Caches,
  first employment: Microsoft Windows Server Performance

• Alaa R. Alameldeen
  
  Ph.D. May 2006
  Using Compression to Improve Chip Multiprocessor Performance
  first employment: Intel Microprocessor Research Lab

• Daniel J. Sorin
  Ph.D. December 2002,
  Using Lightweight Checkpoint/Recovery to Improve the Availability and Designability of Shared Memory Multiprocessors,
  first employment: Duke University.
  Ph.D. Graduates:
  • Blake Hechtman, PhD 2014, first employment Oracle
  • Meng Zhang, PhD 2013, first employment Oracle
  • Fred Bower, PhD 2010, first employment IBM
  • Bogdan Romanescu, PhD 2010, first position: Microsoft
  • Anita Lungu, PhD 2009, first position PhD student in clinical pshpsychology, U. Washington
  • Albert Meixner, Ph.D. 2008, first Employment: Nvidia
  • Tong Li, Ph.D. 2005, first Employment Intel Research
• Babak Falsafi,
  Ph.D. December 1997,
  Fine-Grain Protocol Execution Mechanisms & Scheduling Policies on SMP Clusters,
  first employment: Purdue University.
  Ph.D. Graduates:
  • Evangelos Vlachos, PhD (CMU), first appointment Oracle Labs
  • Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, PhD (EPFL), first appointment IPM
  • Sotiria Fytraki, PhD (EPFL), first appointment Maxeler
  • Djordje Jevdjic, PhD (EPFL), Swiss NSF Postdoc Scholar
  • Cansu Kaynak, PhD (EPFL), first appointment at Oracle Labs
  • Onur Kocberber, PhD (EPFL), first appointment at Oracle Labs
  • Stavros Volos, PhD (EPFL), first appointment at Microsoft Research
  • Brian Gold, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at Sun Microsystems)
  • Nikos Hardavellas, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at Northwestern University)
  • Jangwoo Kim, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at Sun Microsystems)
  • Stephen Somogyi, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at AMD)
  • Thomas Wenisch, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at University of Michigan)
  • Se-Hyun Yang, PhD (CMU) (first appointment at Samsung)
  • Il Park (CMU), first employment: IBM
  • Se-Hyun Yang (CMU), first employment: Samsung
  • An-Chow Lai PhD (Purdue), first employment: Intel

• Steven K. Reinhardt,
  Ph.D. December 1996,
  Mechanisms for Distributed Shared Memory,
  first employment: University of Michigan.
  Ph.D. Graduates:
  • Kevin Lim, PhD 2010. First employment: HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Lisa Hsu, PhD 2009. First employment: AMD, Bellevue, WA.
  • Ali Saidi, PhD 2009. First employment: ARM, Austin, TX.
  • Nathan Binkert, PhD 2006. First employment: HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Erik G. Hallnor, PhD 2004. First employment: Intel, Hillsboro, OR.
  • Steven E. Raasch, PhD 2004. First employment: Intel, Hudson, MA.
  • Wei-Fen Lin, 2002, first employment: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• Alvin R. Lebeck,
  Ph.D. December 1995,
  Tools and Techniques for Memory System Design and Analysis,
  first employment: Duke University.
  Ph.D. Graduates:
  • Jun Pang (co-advised with C. Dwyer, Ph.D. 2013)
  • Yang Liu (Ph.D. 2011 First Employment Oracle)
  • Constantin Pistol (co-advised with C. Dwyer, Ph.D. 2009 First Employment Apple)
  • Jaidev Patwardhan (Ph.D. 2006 First Employment MIPS)
  • Tong Li (Ph.D. 2005 First Employment: Intel Research)
  • Xiaob Fan (Ph.D. 2004 First Employment: Google)
  • Heng Zeng (Ph.D. 2004 First Employment: Cisco)
  • Mithuna Thottethodi, 2002, first employment: Purdue University.
  • Srikanth Srinivasan, 2001, first employment: Intel MRL.
  • Chia-Lin Yang, 2000, first employment: National Taiwan University.

Academic Genealogy

• Randy H. Katz
          Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1980
          Dissertation: Database Design and Translation for Multiple Data Models
• Eugene Wong
          Ph.D. Princeton University 1959
          Dissertation: Vector Stochastic Processes in Problems of Communication Theory
• John Bowman Thomas
          Ph.D. Stanford University 1955
          Dissertation: On the Statistical Design of Demodulation Systems for Signals in Additive Noise
• Willis W. Harman
          Ph.D. Stanford University 1948
          Dissertation: Tunable Waveguide Cavity Resonators for Broadband Operation of Reflex Klystrons
• Karl Ralph Spangenberg
          Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1937
          Dissertation: The Effect of Grid Current Flow Upon the Dynamic Characteristics of Vacuum Tube Power
• William Littell Everitt
          Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1933
          Dissertation: The Calculation and Design of Alternating Current Networks Employing Triodes Operating During a Portion of a Cycle
• Frederick Columbus Blake
          Ph.D. Columbia University 1906
          Dissertation: The Reflection and Transmission of Electric Waves by Screens of Resonators and by Grids
• Ernest Fox Nichols
          Sc.D. Cornell University 1897
          Dissertation: Radiometric Researches in the Remote Infra-Red Spectrum
          <Copy of a letter regarding EF Nichols Sc.D. degree at Cornell>
• Edward Leamington Nichols
          Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1879 Germany
          Dissertation: Ueber das von glühendem Platin ausgestrahlte Licht: Ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Ausstrahlungslehr
          <Co-founded The Physical Review>
• More ancestry information (collected by a distant academic cousin). This uses "academic influence", not just formal advisor/advisee relationships. For example, this lists Heinrich Rubens as a "co-parent" of Ernest Fox Nichols (Rubens was a co-author on two of the three papers that made up Nichols' thesis).
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