Speaker: Prof. Onur Mutlu

Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he previously held the William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, systems, and bioinformatics. He is especially interested in interactions across domains and between applications, system software, compilers, and microarchitecture, with a major current focus on memory and storage systems, bioinformatics, and biologically-inspired computation paradigms. A variety of techniques he and his group discovered and invented over the years (e.g., the RowHammer phenomenon in DRAM memory and its solutions, new insights on DRAM and NAND flash memory errors, runahead execution, QoS-aware memory controllers, intelligent prefetcher designs, non-volatile memory and hybrid memory system designs, new memory system architectures, new GPU thread schedulers, and various flash memory signal processing and lifetime management mechanisms) have influenced industry and have been employed in commercial microprocessors and memory/storage systems, including systems designed by Intel, IBM, Samsung, Sun Microsystems. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin (2006) and BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His industrial experience spans starting the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), and various product and research positions at Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, VMware and Google. He was named an ACM Fellow for “contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems.” He received the inaugural IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Architect Award, the inaugural Intel Early Career Faculty Award, CMU College of Engineering George Tallman Ladd Research Award, US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, faculty partnership awards from various companies, and a healthy number of best paper and "Top Pick" paper recognitions at various computer systems and architecture venues. He has co-authored a healthy number of top conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, which have been widely cited in both academia and industry. His computer architecture and digital circuit design course lectures and materials are freely available on YouTube, and his research group makes a wide variety of software and hardware artifacts freely available online. For more information, please see his webpage at https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/.