Sandhya Dwarkadas

Visiting Research Professor

ACM and IEEE Fellow for contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability
2020 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service

Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0226
sandhya at cs rochester edu
Phone (585) 275-5647; FAX 273-4556

Publications

Professional Activities

Recent Talks

Interview by CRA-W (Summer/Fall 2016 Newsletter)

Profile: Hajim Celebration of Women 2020

Research Projects

• CoSyn: Communication and Synchronization Mechanisms for Emerging Multi-Core Processors
• InterWeave: A Middleware System for Distributed Shared State
• CASHMERE: Coherent Shared Memory for Next-Generation Networks and Multiprocessors
• InterAct: Distributed Shared State for Interactive Applications
• ARCH: Architecture, Runtime, and Compiler Integration for High-Performance Computing
• Complexity-Adaptive Processing for high-performance, low-power microprocessors
• Dynamically Tunable Clustered Multithreaded (DT-CMT) Architectures

Teaching

• Spring 2022 - Parallel and Distributed Systems - CSC 258/458

• Fall 2020 - Computer Organization - CSC252

• Fall 2018 - Operating Systems - CSC 256/456

• Fall 2016 - Computer Networks - CSC257/457

• Spring 2012 - Seminar on Pervasive Parallelism - CSC 572

• Spring 2010 - Computer Organization - CSC252

• Fall 2006 - Computation and Formal Systems - CSC 173

• Spring 2006 - Seminar on the Future of Parallelism - CSC 573

• Fall 2003 - Programming Language Design and Implementation - CSC 254

• Fall 2001 - Computer Networks - CSC257/457

• Spring 2000 - Computer Organization - CSC252

• Fall '99 - Seminar around Linux Internals - CSC573

• CRA-W Graduate Cohort presentation: Ph.D. Proposal Writing (February, 2005)

• CRA-W Graduate Cohort presentation: Presentation Skills (March, 2009)

• RIT Computer Science Seminar Series presentation on Parallel Computing (29th April, 1998)

• Physics/LLE Department Presentation on Cashmere (June, 1999)

• Slides for SDSM as a Parallelizing Compiler Target

Current Graduate Students

• Shuang Zhai
• Sudhanshu Gupta

Ph.D. Graduates

• Sayak Chakraborti``Opportunistic Resource Management: Balancing Quality-of-Service and Resource Utilization in Datacenters'', 2022, first position at Meta.
• Divya Ojha``Redesigning Caches to Resist Side Channel Attacks'', 2022, first position at NVidia.
• Xiaowan Dong``Toward Efficient and Protected Address Translation in Memory Management'', 2019, first position at Google.
• Sharanyan Srikanthan``Sharing-Aware Resource Management for Multicore Systems'', 2019, first position at Intel.
• Hongzhou Zhao ``Application-Directed Cache Coherence Design'', 2013, first position at NVidia.
• Arrvindh Shriraman ``Architectural Techniques for Memory Oversight in Multiprocessors'', 2010, first position at Simon Fraser University.
• Hemayet Hossain ``Effective On-Chip Cache Utilization in Chip Multiprocessors'', 2010, first position at NVidia.
• Xiao Zhang ``Operating System-Level On-Chip Resource Management in The Multicore Era'', 2010, first position at Google, Inc.
• Chunqiang Tang ``Data Sharing and Information Retrieval in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems'', 2004, first position at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
• Umit Rencuzogullari ``Dynamic Resource Management for Parallel Applications in an Autonomous Cluster of Workstations'', 2004, first position at VMware, Inc.
• DeQing (Luke) Chen, ``Multi-Level Shared State and Application Specific Coherence Models'', 2004, first position at Ask Jeeves, Inc.
• Rajeev Balasubramonian, ``Dynamic Management of Microarchitecture Resources in Future Microprocessors'', 2003, first position at University of Utah.
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy, ``Active Data Mining in a Distributed Setting,'' 1999, first position at Ohio State University.

Former M.S. Students

• Mohsen Mohammadi (2019)
• Amin Mosayyebzadeh (2018)
• Qiyuan Qiu (2016)
• Chao Li (2015)
• Shantonu Hossain (2013)
• Rongrong Zhong (2010)
• Nitin Bhardwaj (2008)
• Shivashankar Balu (2006)
• Rajeev Garg (2005)
• Sotiris Ioannidis (1999)
• Nikolaos Hardavellas (1997)

Brief Bio

Sandhya Dwarkadas is currently the Walter N. Munster Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Until 2022, she was the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science with a secondary appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering, at University of Rochester. She has been on the faculty since 1996 and was chair of the computer science department from 2014---2020. She was also interim associate vice president for research from 2021---2022. She received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. She is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE.

Her areas of research interest include parallel and distributed computing, computer architecture, and the interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime/operating system, and underlying architecture. Her research lies at the intersection of computer hardware and software with a particular focus on support for parallelism. She has made fundamental contributions to the design and implementation of shared memory both in hardware and software, and to hardware and software energy- and resource-aware configurability.

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