Doug Burger
  Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research NExT
Former Professor of Computer Sciences, UT-Austin

Research
 
  • Interests:
  •   Computer architecture, reconfigurable logic, computing technologies, ubiquitous and wearable computing, privacy and personal data management, mobile devices, cloud services, datacenter designs, and optimizing compilers.
     
  • Research:
  •   2011-2016: Catapult, deploying reconfigurable logic at large scale in the cloud. Three other projects not yet public.
    2008-2011: Computer Architecture Group at MSR, Redmond Lab (focus on personal data services and phase-change memory)
    2000-2008: The TRIPS project in the Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory aka CART).
     

    Selected publications
     
    (Full list of publications on my resume / CV).

  • A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI (ISCA-18)
  • Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud (NSDI-18)
  • A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture (MICRO-16)
  • A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (ISCA-14)
  • General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation (ISCA-14)
  • How To Implement Effective Prediction and Forwarding for Fusable Dynamic Multicore Architectures (HPCA-13)
  • Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs (MICRO-12)
  • Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling (ISCA-11)
  • Pocket Cloudlets (ASPLOS-11)
  • Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory (SOSP-09)
  • Architecting Phase-Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative (ISCA-09)
  • An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System (ASPLOS-09)
  • Strategies for Mapping Dataflow Blocks to Distributed Hardware (MICRO-08)
  • Composable Lightweight Processors (MICRO-07)
  • Late Binding: Enabling Unordered Load-Store Queues (ISCA-07)
  • A NUCA Substrate for Flexible CMP Cache Sharing (ICS-05)
  • Scaling to the End of Silicon with EDGE Architectures (IEEE Computer, July '04)
  • Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation for High-ILP Processors (MICRO-03)
  • An Adaptive, Non-Uniform Cache Structure for Wire-Dominated On-Chip Caches (ASPLOS-02)
  • Modeling the Effect of Technology Trends on the Soft Error Rate of Combinational Logic (DSN-02)
  • The Optimal Logic Depth Per Pipeline Stage is 6 to 8 FO4 Inverter Delays (ISCA-02)
  • Clock Rate versus IPC: the End of the Road for Conventional Microarchitectures (ISCA-00)
  • CART Alums:

    Ph.D.
     
  • Dong Li, May 2014
    Dissertation: "Orchestrating Thread Scheduling and Cache Management to Improve Memory System Throughput in Throughput Processors"
    First employment: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Research, Qualcomm Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Renee St. Amant, May 2014
    Dissertation: "Enabling High-Performance, Mixed-Signal Approximate Computing"
    First employment: Author
  • Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, May 2013
    Dissertation: "Approximate Acceleration for a Post-Multicore Era"
    First employment: Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
  • Behnam Robatmili, August 2011
    Dissertation: "Efficient Execution of Sequential Applications on Multicore Systems"
    First employment: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Research, Qualcomm Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Bert Maher, August 2010
    Dissertation: "Atomic Block Formation for Explicit Data Graph Execution Architectures"
    First employment: Software Engineer, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Aaron Smith, December 2009
    Dissertation: "Explicit Data Graph Compilation"
    First employment: Research Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
  • Haiming Liu, March 2009
    Dissertation: "Hardware Techniques to Improve Cache Efficiency"
    First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX.
  • Nitya Ranganathan, February 2009
    Dissertation: "Control Flow Speculation for Distributed Architectures"
    First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices Research and Development Lab, Austin, TX.
  • Simha Sethumadhavan, August 2007
    Dissertation: "Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation"
    First employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY.
  • Changkyu Kim, July 2007
    Dissertation: "A Technology Scalable Composable Architecture"
    First employment: Research Scientist, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Ramadass Nagarajan, May 2007
    Dissertation: "Design and Evaluation of a Technology-Scalable Architecture for Instruction-Level Parallelism"
    First employment: Platform Architect, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR.
  • Karu Sankaralingam, November 2006 (principal advisor: Steve Keckler)
    Dissertation: "Polymorphous Architectures: A Unified Approach for Extracting Concurrency of Different Granularities"
    First employment: Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  • Jaehyuk Huh, May 2006
    Dissertation: "Hardware Techniques to Reduce Communication Costs in Multiprocessors"
    First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA.
  • Rajagopalan Desikan, December 2005
    Dissertation: "Distributed Selective Re-Execution for EDGE Architectures"
    First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX.
  • M.S. Hrishikesh, July 2004
    Dissertation: "Design of Wide-Issue High-Frequency Processors in Wire-Delay Dominated Technologies"
    First employment: Senior Component Design Engineer, Intel, Folsom, CA.
  • Vikas Agarwal, May 2004 (principal advisor: Steve Keckler)
    Dissertation: "Scalable Primary Cache Memory Architectures"
    First employment: Advisory Engineer, International Business Machines, Austin, TX.
  • B.S.
     
  • Franzi Roesner
    Honors Undergraduate Thesis: "Counting Dependence Predictors"
    First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences and Engineering, University of Washington
  • Kevin Bush
    First employment: M.S. program in Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Jacob Leverich
    First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, Stanford University
  • Yasuko Watanabe
    First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Luke Yen
    First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Miscellanea
     
  • UT Computer Architecture Seminar
  • Faculty advisor for the UT Marathon team (2002 team pic)
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    Contact Information

       dburger at microsoft dot com
       Microsoft Building 112, Office 3026
       425-538-1668 (Phone)
       425-936-7329 (Fax - please include my name on cover sheet)

    Postal address:

       Microsoft Research
       1 Microsoft Way
       Redmond, WA 98052  

    Last modified: September 13, 2012