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David Patterson vs. Katie : )
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I am in my third year as a graduate student in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. I am pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science under advisor Kathryn S. McKinley and co-advisor Doug Burger.
I am interested in how to do computation, including the entire stack from
programming languages down to the microarchitecture. My expertise is in
compilers and the hardware/software interface, but I am also very interested
in programming languages and microarchitecture.
It has become clear that the methods we once used to improve performance (deeper
pipelines, smaller devices, and faster clock speeds/more ILP as a result) will
no longer work. Frequency scaling is declining, power consumption has become
critical, future processors will have to exploit more concurrency to improve
performance, and reliability will come to the
forefront as technology continues to scale. With the entire computational stack
already in flux as PL experts and microarchitects alike are forced to take on
these new challenges, this is great time to re-think how we go about doing
computation.
When I'm not at school, I enjoy playing soccer, running, dancing, and playing
racquetball. I'd like to become good at swimming and biking as well so that I
can do a triathlon someday. I have played the flute since elementary school,
and I still enjoy doing so every now and then.
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