David J. Palframan

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Madison, WI 53705 608-***-****

OBJECTIVE An internship in computer architecture to gain industry perspective and experience.

EDUCATION Ph.D. Computer Engineering, expected Spring 2014

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisors: Mikko Lipasti, Nam Sung Kim

M.S. Computer Engineering, Spring 2011

University of Wisconsin-Madison

GPA: 3.86/4.0

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, May 2009

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

GPA: 3.92/4.0

COURSES Advanced Computer Architecture, Fault-Tolerant Computing, Multicore Processor

Programming, Operating Systems, Compilers, Digital Circuits and Components,

Microcontroller System Design, Circuit Theory, Digital Speech/Audio Processing.

EXPERIENCE University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Assistant, November 2009 present

Developed a low-overhead technique for soft error detection in combinational logic.

Devised and simulated an architectural technique to mitigate performance loss due to

random process variations.

Currently investigating precision/fault tolerance tradeoffs in floating point logic.

IBM Corporation, Raleigh, NC

Performance / Energy Modeling Intern, May 2012 present

Evaluated effectiveness of AIX algorithm to consolidate work and power gate cores.

Conducted experiments on POWER7+ systems while monitoring power breakdown.

Created tool for visualization and analysis of power data traces.

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

GPU Architecture Intern, May 2011 August 2011

Configured verification infrastructure for post-silicon bring-up.

Executed full-chip functional verification test plan.

Conducted performance analysis, benchmarking, and tuning experiments.

Created scripts to automate performance tuning experiments.

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Undergraduate Research Assistant, June 2008 May 2009

Developed a system for DSP (noise removal) using networked FPGAs.

Wrote stand-alone driver for an Ethernet NIC ASIC, including minimal IP stack.

Created custom protocol to transfer data between PC and FPGAs for processing.

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Teaching Assistant

Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, August 2007 December 2007

Classical and Modern Physics, August 2006 May 2007

SKILLS Programming Languages: C/C++, Perl, Verilog, Java, Objective C, Visual Basic, PHP, HTML

Tools: Cadence Virtuoso, Spice, Xilinx ISE/EDK, Quartus, LogicWorks, MATLAB, VIM, GCC,

GNU Make, Perforce, Subversion

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, AIX, OS X

PUBLICATIONS

David J. Palframan, Nam Sung Kim, and Mikko H. Lipasti, Mitigating Random Variation with

Spare RIBs: Redundant Intermediate Bitslices, in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP

International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, MA,

June 2012.

David J. Palframan, Nam Sung Kim, and Mikko H. Lipasti, Spare RIBs: Redundant

Intermediate Bitslices, 2nd Workshop on Resilient Architectures (WRA) in conjunction with

MICRO-44, Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.

Vignyan Kothinti Naresh, David J. Palframan, and Mikko H. Lipasti, CRAM: Coded

Registers for Amplified Multiporting, in Proceedings of the 44th Int l Symposium on

Microarchitecture (MICRO-44), Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.

David J. Palframan, Nam Sung Kim, and Mikko H. Lipasti, Time Redundant Parity for Low-

Cost Transient Error Detection, in Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe

(DATE 2011), Grenoble, France, March 2011.

PROJECTS

D. Palframan, A. Nere, Fault Analysis and Fault Tolerance in Cortical Models, ECE 573,

May 2010.

D. Palframan, V. Naresh, Assessment of Selective Caching, ECE 757, May 2010.

D. Palframan, V. Naresh, Network Coding In Multi-Ported Register Files, ECE 752, May 2010.

D. Palframan, T. Sugimoto, I. Tsao, R. Hallinan, A Golf Ball Collecting Robot, Senior

Design, Bucknell University, May 2009.

AWARDS

Peter Schneider Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

George Allison Irland Prize for achievement in electrical engineering, Bucknell University

Jeffrey James Harold Prize for first year EE with highest standing, Bucknell University

Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society

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