Major Bhadauria
Ph.D. Student, ECE
364 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 (607) 255-3678 (office)
+1 (312) 622-5678 (cellular)
i) completed a BS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Toronto(May 2004)
ii) joined Cornell's MS/Ph.D. program in January 2006
iii) joined Fusion Architecture Research Group in January 2006
iv) working toward Ph.D. with Prof. Sally McKee
v) member of ACM SIGARCH
My e-mail address is major at csl.cornell.eduEverywhere I go
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In layman's terms, I research how to make computers faster and use less power. This involves looking at the system level, how software interacts with the hardware. Issues with compilers, software characteristics, VLSI circuit and process technology idiosyncrasies all play a role here. One way is to examine bottlenecks in the hardware and software and how to alleviate this. Another is to build a system from top down that is geared towards performance or power knowing something about the general software your system will be used for.
Lately, multiple cores on chip has become the trend, so folks are looking at reducing core to core communication and feeding these processors, since they operate faster than memory. Getting data to these processors is tricky, since everything else operates much slower than they can.
Saving power can be done through efficient design, like at a buffet, only incorporating on chip what you need, and not the entire kitchen sink. Alternatively, like turning off lights in rooms in your house, one can turn off portions of the chip that are not being used at the time.