Design Computer Science

Gokhan Memik

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208

Phone: 847-***-****, Fax: 847-***-****

abo34q@r.postjobfree.com, http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~memik

Education

University of California Los Angeles

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Department

Aug. 2003

Northwestern University

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

May 2000

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.S., Department of Computer Engineering

July 1998

Employment

Northwestern UniversityAssociate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Junior Professor of Computer Science

2003 Present

Sept. 2009PresentSept. 2003Aug. 2009Sept. 2006Aug. 2009University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Research Assistant20012003Jan. 2001Aug. 2003Northwestern University

Research Assistant19992000Jan 1999Dec. 2000HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA

Research InternSummer 2000 and 2002

Awards and Honors

Best paper award nomination at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)

(2008)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008-2013)

Best Student Paper Award Supercomputing (2007)

3rd place award at the Northwestern University Applied Research Day (2007)

Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Junior Professor of Computer Science (2006-

2009)

Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator (CAREER) Award (2005-2008)

Best paper award nomination at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) (2005)

Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Junior Fellow (2004-2005)

Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award (2002)

Henry Samueli Fellowship (2001-2002)

Publications

Refereed Journal Publications

Refereed Conference/Workshop Publications

; 12/2007 12/2008; $10,000; Investigators: Russ Joseph (PI) and

Gokhan Memik

6. CSR-PDOS: Optimizing the Client/Server Environment Subject to User Satisfaction ; NSF

CNS-0720691; 09/2007 09/2010; $737,000 (including a $12,000 REU); Investigators: Peter

Dinda (PI), Robert Dick, and Gokhan Memik

7. Computational and Hardware Models of Active Sensing Behaviors ; NSF IIS-0613568;

09/2006 09/2009; $350,000; Investigators: Mitra Hartmann (PI), Gokhan Memik, and Seda O.

Memik

8. Self-Adjusting Architectures/Circuits for Improved Performance and Reduced Design

Complexity ; NSF CCF-0541337; 04/2006 04/2009; $450,000; Investigators: Gokhan Memik

(PI), Yehea Ismail, Russ Joseph, and Seda O. Memik

9. Collaborative Research: CRI - Scalable Benchmarks, Software and Data for Data Mining,

Analytics and Scientific Discoveries ; NSF CNS-0551639; 03/2006 03/2009; this is a

collaborative work with University of Minnesota - Northwestern amount: $220,000;

Investigators: Alok Choudhary (PI) and Gokhan Memik

10. Proposal for Modern Circuits and Signals Laboratory Development ; Murphy Society;

11/2005 11/2006; $45,000; Investigators: Lawrence J. Henschen (PI), Robert Dick, Yehea

Ismail, Russ Joseph, Gokhan Memik, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Mary Phillips, Alan Sahakian, and

Chi-Haur Wu

11. Collaborative Research: High-Performance Techniques, Design and Implementation of

Software Infrastructure for Change Detection and Mining ; NSF IIS-0536994; 09/2005

09/2008; this is a collaborative work with Indiana University; Northwestern amount:

$514,450; Investigators: Alok Choudhary (PI), Aggelos Katsaggelos, Gokhan Memik, Seda O.

Memik, and Ying Wu

12. High Performance Networking Hardware Design ; Department of Energy (DoE CAREER

Award); 08/2005 08/2008; $300,000; single investigator

13. Collaborative Research: Ultra-scalable system software and tools for data-intensive

computing ; NSF CCF-0444405; 10/2004 09/2008; this is a collaborative work with

Pennsylvania State University and DePaul University - Northwestern amount: $259,521;

Investigators: Alok Choudhary (PI), Gokhan Memik, and Seda O. Memik

14. Four Motorola Undergraduate Research Grants to support the research of undergraduate

students Steve Lieberman, Eddie Kim, Matthew Wildrick, and Ryan Bunn

15. Sun Microsystems Equipment donation (PI), 2008. T2000 SPARC Server, list price:

$21,000.

16. Xilinx Equipment donation (PI), 2006. M310 FPGA boards, list price $10,000.

Software/Tools

. NetBench (with Prof. Mangione-Smith), 2002 - present

NetBench is one of the most frequently used benchmarking suites for network processors.

It has a wide user base including a large number of academic and industrial institutions.

. MineBench (with Prof. Choudhary, Dr. Jay Pisharath, and Berkin Ozisikyilmaz), 2006 -

present

MineBench is a benchmarking suite for data mining applications. Since its inception in

2006, it has been downloaded for over 2,500 times.

Professional Activities

Professional Service

. Editorial Board

- International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing (2011 - present)

. Organizing Committee

- Program Co-Chair for International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40) (2007)

- Co-Chair for the Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR) held

in conjunction with ISCA (2004, 2005, and 2006)

- Publication Chair for International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) (2003)

- Advisory board member of Annual Workshop on Methodologies in Low Power Design (MLPD)

(2004)

. Technical Program Committees

- International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) (2011)

- International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) (2011)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2011)

- Workshop on Arch. and Systems Support for Mobile Applications held in conjunction with

ASPLOS (2011)

- IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) (2011)

- International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) (2010)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2010)

- International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) (2009)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2009)

- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Embedded Systems Track (2008)

- IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) (2007)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2007)

- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Embedded Systems Track (2007)

- Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) (2007)

- International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) (2006)

- Workshop on Architectural Reliability (WAR) held in conjunction with MICRO (2006)

- IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) (2006)

- Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with ISCA (2006)

- Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation (MoBS) held in conjunction with ISCA

(2006)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2006)

- International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) (2006)

- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Embedded Systems Track (2006)

- Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) (2006)

- Workshop on Architectural Reliability (WAR) held in conjunction with MICRO (2005)

- Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES)

(2005)

- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (2005)

- Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with ISCA (2005)

- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Embedded Systems Track (2005)

- Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) (2005)

- Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with ISCA (2004)

- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Embedded Systems Track (2004)

- Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) (2004)

- Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with ISCA (2003)

- Constraint-Aware Embedded Software Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE Real-Time

Systems Symposium (2003)

- Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with ISCA (2002)

Tutorials and Invited Talks

1. Power to the People: Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural

Properties and User Satisfaction to Optimize Mobile Architectures and Smartphones (IMEC,

Nov. 2010)

2. Power to the People: Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural

Properties and User Satisfaction (Sabanci University September 2009)

3. Power to the People: Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural

Properties and User Satisfaction (IBM T.J. Watson Apr. 2009)

4. Power to the People: Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural

Properties and User Satisfaction (Cornell University Oct. 2008)

5. Power to the People: Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural

Properties and User Satisfaction (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Sep.

2008)

6. Holistic Computer Architectures (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Apr.

2007)

7. Holistic Design Methodologies for Nanoscale Processors (Toyota Technological Institute

Chicago, Feb. 2006)

8. Providing Application-Specific Reliability at the Microarchitecture Level (University

of Wisconsin, Apr. 2005)

9. Application-Specific Microarchitecture Optimizations (University of Toronto, Feb.

2005)

10. Using Semantic Information in Application-Specific Processors (UIC, Jan. 2005)

11. Overview of Architecture Research at Northwestern University (Motorola Labs, May

2004)

12. Risk Management for Sensor Networks (Motorola Labs, June 2004)

13. Network Processor Technologies (Conexant, Feb. 2002)

14. Network Processing: Applications, Architectures and Examples. Tutorial at 34th

International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Austin / TX, Dec. 2001

15. Network Processing Applications (HP Labs, Nov. 2001)

Advising, Teaching, and University Service

Current Graduate Students

Emre Karaman, MS, expected graduation: 2012

Prabhat Kumar*, PhD, expected graduation: 2011

Utku Pamuksuz, MS/PhD, expected graduation: 2014

Benjamin Scholbrock, MS/PhD, expected graduation: 2013

Matt Schuchhardt, MS/PhD, expected graduation: 2014

* co-advised w/ Prof. Alok Choudhary

Alumni

. PhD

- Pan Yan, 2011, Thesis title: Leveraging Nanophotonics in Future Many-core Processors.

Position: Technology Department at Globalfoundries, Inc.

- Abhishek Das (co-advised with Prof. A. Choudhary), 2010, Thesis title:

Microarchitectural Approaches for Optimizing Power and Profitability in Multicore

Processors. Position: Intel Architecture Group.

- Alex Shye, 2010, Thesis title: Incorporating the End User in Computer Design and

Optimization. Position: Qualcomm Research, Bay Area R&D.

- Yu Zhang, 2010, Thesis title:

Adaptive On-Chip Networks and Their Impact on Processor Architectures. Position: Research

and Development Department, Bloomberg L.P.

- Serkan Ozdemir, 2009, Thesis Title: Mitigating the Effects of Process Variations

through Microarchitectural Techniques. Position: Intel Barcelona Research Center

- Berkin Ozisikyilmaz (co-advised with Prof. A. Choudhary), 2009, Thesis title: Analysis,

Characterization and Design of Data Mining Applications and Applications to Computer

Architecture. Position: NetApp

- Arindam Mallik, 2008, Thesis Title: Holistic Computer Architectures based on

Application, User, and Process Characteristics. Position: IMEC (Interuniversity

Microelectronics Centre)

. MS

- Anitha Mohan (co-advised with Prof. Ogrenci Memik), 2009. Thesis title: Yield

improvement using cache SRAM array supply lowering and selective wordline voltage boosting

mechanisms.

- Matthew Erler (co-advised with Prof. Ismail), 2007. Thesis title: TAP Cache:

Temperature-Aware Placement for Caches.

- David Nguyen, 2005. Thesis title: Reconfigurable Architectures For Network Intrusion

Detection.

. Undergraduate projects supervised: Jonathan Adams, Ryan Bunn, Ross Clements, Andrew

Collins, Jeff Conroy, Eddie Kim, Steve Lieberman, Bryan Liu, Hyerim Shin, Benjamin

Scholbrock, Matthew Wildrick, Anthony Williams

Visiting Scholars

Prof. Sung Woo Chung, Korea University (Jan. 2009 Aug. 2009)

Pre-Doctoral Fellows: Chong Fu, UESTC (2007); Desong Wang, UESTC (2008 2009); Jian Wu,

UESTC (2008 2010)

Defense Committees

. PhD committee

Avery Ching, Steve Chiu, Masud H. Chowdhury, Kenin Coloma, Abhishek Das, Hui Ding, Ja

Chun Ku, Prabhat Kumar, Song Liu, Ying Liu, Jieyi Long, Arindam Mallik, Ke Meng, Gaurav

Mittal, Somshubra Mondal, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Ramanathan Narayanan, Min Ni, Arifa Nisar,

Jayaprakah Pisharath, Serkan Ozdemir, Berkin Ozisikyilmaz, Alex Shye, Jing Xin, Pan Yan,

Lei Yang, Joseph Zambreno, Yu Zhang

. MS committee

Jack Cosgrove, Matthew Erler, Anitha Mohan, David Nguyen, Clint Wu

University Committees

. Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2003-

)

. Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (

2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010,

2010-2011

)

. Computing Facilities Committee . Admissions Committee CBB Program . Computing Cluster Management CBB Program . Distinguished Seminar Committee (

2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011

)

. Committee for the Program in Computing and Information Systems (

2008-2009)

Teaching

Since joining Northwestern University, Gokhan Memik taught the EECS 358 Introduction to

Parallel Programming in the Fall 2004 (CTEC: 4.7), Fall 2005 (CTEC: 4.6), Fall 2006 (CTEC:

5.1), Fall 2007 (CTEC: 5.3), Winter 2009 (CTEC: 5.2), Winter 2010 (CTEC: 5.1), and Winter

2011 (CTEC: 4.2) quarters; EECS 361 Introduction to Computer Architecture class in the

Winter 2004 (CTEC: 4.0), Winter 2005 (CTEC: 5.1), Winter 2006 (CTEC: 4.8), Winter 2007

(CTEC: 5.4), Winter 2008 (CTEC: 5.2), Fall 2008 (CTEC: 5.1), and Fall 2009 (CTEC: 4.9)

quarters; EECS 362 Computer Architecture Projects class in the Winter 2009 (CTEC: 5.5)

quarter; and EECS 452 Advanced Computer Architecture in the Spring 2004 (CTEC: 5.6),

Spring 2005 (CTEC: 6.0), Spring 2006 (CTEC: 5.1), Spring 2008 (CTEC: 5.4), and Spring 2009

(CTEC: 5.3) quarters. The provided CTEC scores are the overall instruction ratings on a

scale of 6.0

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