Awards and Honors
The ArchLab has been lucky enough to attract an amazing set of student and collaborators. Below are some of the awards we have won together in recent years
Joseph McMahan, Best Presentation
Zhaoxia Deng, Best Paper
SIMPOINT, Most Influential Paper
Selection to EECS Rising Stars 2023 – Jennifer Volk: “Participants are selected based on academic excellence, interest in a faculty career in the EECS discipline, and commitment to advancing equity and inclusion.”
ACM SIGARCH & IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award — Georgios Tzimpragos. Computing with temporal operators. June 2023.
ASC Best Student Paper Runner-Up — Jennifer Volk, Georgios Tzimpragos, Alex Wynn, Evan Golden, Timothy Sherwood. Low-cost superconducting fan-out with cell Ic ranking. Applied Superconductivity Conference. October 2022.
UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award — Georgios Tzimpragos. Computing with temporal operators. UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of Computer Science. June 2022
UCSB CS Outstanding Graduate Student Award – Georgios Tzimpragos. Annual award given to one student across the entire Department of Computer Science. June 2022.
IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention — Georgios Tzimpragos, Jennifer Volk, Alex Wynn, James E. Smith, Timothy Sherwood. Superconducting computing with alternating logic elements. IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. May-June 2022.
CACM Research Highlight — Georgios Tzimpragos, Advait Madhavan, Dilip Vasudevan, Dmitri Strukov, Timothy Sherwood. In-sensor classification with boosted race trees. Communications of the ACM. May 2021.
IEEE Micro Top Pick – Georgios Tzimpragos, Jennifer Volk, Dilip Vasudevan, Nestan Tsiskaridze, George Michelogiannakis, Advait Madhavan, John Shalf, and Timothy Sherwood. Temporal Computing with Superconductors. IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, May-June 2021.
Selection to EECS Rising Stars 2020 – Deeksha Dangwal: “Participants are selected based on academic excellence, interest in a faculty career in the EECS discipline, and commitment to advancing equity and inclusion.”
Best Presenter in Session – Jennifer Volk at IEMCON 2020 for “Number Representation and Arithmetic in the Human Brain”
Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award – Deeksha Dangwal: “These 6 graduate students across the entire campus recognized for their excellence in and contributions to undergraduate research supervision and for encouraging others to become involved in these research efforts”. Awarded June 2020
Honorable Mention for ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award – Joseph McMahan for “The ZARF Architecture for Recursive Functions”. Award citation: “For introducing a novel approach to software verification and cross-stack hardware design for critical systems by rethinking instruction-set architectures from a mathematical perspective.” Awarded June 2020
UCSB CS Outstanding Graduate Student Award – Deeksha Dangwal, June 2020. Annual award given to one student across the entire Department of Computer Science
Distinguished Seminar – Timothy Sherwood “Reconsidering Computing from the Gates Up”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison. February 2020
IEEE Micro Top Pick – Deeksha Dangwal, Weilong Cui, Joseph McMahan, and Timothy Sherwood. Trace Wringing for Program Trace Privacy. IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2020.
UCSB CS Departmental Award for Outstanding Publication – Weilong Cui, For “Estimating and Understanding Architectural Risk” from The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture and awarded June 2019
ASPLOS Best Paper Award – Georgios Tzimpragos, Advait Madhavan, Dilip Vasudevan, Dmitri Strukov, and Timothy Sherwood. Boosted Race Trees for Low Energy Classification. ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (1 of 4 from 370 submissions), April 2019
Distinguished Seminar – Timothy Sherwood “Computer Architectures as an Instrument for Understanding the Nature of Practical Computation”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University. March 2018
IEEE Micro Top Pick – Joseph McMahan, Michael Christensen, Lawton Nichols, Jared Roesch, Sung-Yee Guo, Ben Hardekopf, and Timothy Sherwood. An Architecture for Analysis, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2018.
IEEE Micro Top Pick – Weilong Cui and Timothy Sherwood. Architectural Risk, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2018.
Chair's Choice Best Paper Award – Heba Saadeldeen, Zhaoxia Deng, Timothy Sherwood, and Fred Chong. Thermal-Aware, Heterogeneous Materials for Improved Energy and Reliability in 3D PCM Architectures, International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS). October 2017
ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award – Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Greg Hamerly, Brad Calder for "Automatically Characterizing Large Scale Program Behavior" (aka SimPoint) from ASPLOS 2002. Awarded April 2017.
UCSB CS Distinguished Graduate Student Presentation Award — Joseph E. McMahan “Software Like a Bridge”, March 2017
Maurice Wilkes Award — Timothy Sherwood "for contributions to novel program analysis advancing architectural modeling and security". This annual award acknowledges an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by an individual in the first 20 years of their career.
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Advait Madhavan, Timothy Sherwood, and Dmitri Strukov. Abusing Hardware Race Conditions to do Useful Computation, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2015.
Honorable Mention for IEEE Micro Top Pick — Xun Li, Vineeth Kashyap, Jason Oberg, Mohit Tiwari, Vasanth Rajarathinam, Ryan Kastner, Timothy Sherwood, Ben Hardekopf, and Frederic Chong.Sapper: A Language for Hardware-Level Security Policy Enforcement, Named as Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences January-February 2015.
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Hassan Wassel, Ying Gao, Jason Oberg, Ted Huffmire, Ryan Kastner, Frederic Chong, and Timothy Sherwood. Networks-On-Chip with Provable Security Properties, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2014.
Most Promising Paper Award — Hebatallah Saadeldeen, Diana Franklin, Guoping Long, Charlotte Hill, Aisha Browne, Dmitri Strukov, Timothy Sherwood, and Frederic Chong. Memristors for Neural Branch Prediction: A Case Study in Strict Latency and Write Endurance Challenge ACM International Conference On Computing Frontiers. May 2013, Ischia Italy.
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Jonathan Valamehr, Melissa Chase, Seny Kamara, Andrew Putnam, Dan Shumow, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Timothy Sherwood. Inspection Resistant Memory Architectures,IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2013.
UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award at UCSB — Mohit Tiwari, June 2011. Annual award given to one graduating Ph.D. student across the entire Department of Computer Science
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Mohit Tiwari, Xun Li, Hassan Wassel, Bita Mazloom, Shashidhar Mysore, Frederic Chong, and Timothy Sherwood. Tracking Information Flow at the Gate-Level for Secure Architectures, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences January-February 2010.
Best Paper Award — Mohit Tiwari, Shashidhar Mysore, Timothy Sherwood Quantifying the Potential for Program Analysis Peripherals Parallel Architecture and Compiler Techniques (PACT), Sept 2009. Raleigh, NC
UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award at UCSB — Shashidhar Mysore, June 2008. Annual award given to one graduating Ph.D. student across the entire Department of Computer Science
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Shashidhar Mysore, Banit Agrawal, Sheng-Chih Lin, Navin Srivastava, Kaustav Banerjee and Timothy Sherwood. 3D-Integration for Introspection, IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences January-February 2007.
Nominated for Best Paper — Banit Agrawal and Timothy Sherwood. Virtually Pipelined Network Memory, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro), December 2006. Orlando, FL
Best Paper Award — Shashidhar Mysore, Banit Agrawal, Timothy Sherwood, Nisheeth Shrivastava, and Subhash Suri. Profiling over Adaptive Ranges. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'06) March 2006. New York, New York.
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Lin Tan and Timothy Sherwood. Architectures for Bit-Split String Scanning in Intrusion Detection IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2006.
IEEE Micro Top Pick — Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Greg Hamerly, Suleyman Sair, and Brad Calder. Discovering and Exploiting Program Phases. IEEE Micro: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences November-December 2003.
