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Prof. Delimitrou together with Profs. Rachit Agarwal and Hakim Weatherspoon from Cornell, and Profs. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker from UC Berkeley have received a $3 million research grant from NSF to work on resource disaggregation in the cloud.
Ji Kim, a recent CSL graduate, has won the ECE Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for his thesis titled “Software/Hardware Co-Design to Improve Productivity, Portability, and Performance of Loop-Task Parallel Applications.”
Prof. Christoph Studer has been awarded NSF CAREER Award “Hardware Accelerated Bayesian Inference via Approximate Message Passing: A Bottom-Up Approach.”
Prof. Kirstin Petersen’s research group in collaboration with the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems will present two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017) in Singapore.
Prof. Zhiru Zhang’s research group will present six papers at the 25th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’17) in Monterey, CA.
Prof. Christina Delimitrou received an IEEE Micro Top Picks 2017 Award for the paper “DRAF: A Low-Power DRAM-based Reconfigurable Acceleration Fabric”.
Profs. Christoph Studer and Zhiru Zhang each received a Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Prof. Christopher Batten has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with indefinite tenure, following approval from the Cornell Engineering Board of Trustees, effective November 1, 2016. Prof. Batten joined CSL in January 2010 as an Assistant Professor.
Prof. José Martínez has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective November 1, 2016.
Prof. Kirstin Petersen is CSL’s newest Faculty member. Prof. Petersen’s research in robotics represents CSL’s entry into such an important and exciting area.