Ashish Venkat
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Office: Rice 312
Email: <lastname>@virginia.edu
My research interests lie broadly in Computer Architecture, Compilers, and Computer Security. My research explores novel and cross-disciplinary hardware and software techniques to design machines that offer greater levels of performance, energy efficiency, and security, while maintaining high programmability. I'm also interested in applying novel machine learning techniques to detect and mitigate security threats, model dynamic execution behavior, and provide efficient hardware/runtime support to enable the seamless adoption of highly heterogeneous platforms and emerging computing paradigms.
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC San Diego under the stellar mentorship of Prof. Dean Tullsen. While at UC San Diego, I developed a swift and seamless cross-ISA process migration strategy that now enables programs to cross a heretofore forbidden boundary – the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). This has unlocked several previously unexplored high performance, energy-efficient, and secure heterogeneous hardware designs. My work on heterogeneous architectures has been published at top-tier venues such as ISCA, ASPLOS, and HPCA, including a best paper runner-up award, an IEEE Micro Top Picks selection, and a successful industry transfer to the Cloud Platforms Division of the IBM Haifa Research Lab.
I am very fortunate to work with an outstanding group of graduate and undergraduate students.
Andreas Prodromou, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS), July, 2019.
Mohammadkazem Taram, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In IEEE Micro, Special Issue on the Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences (IEEE Micro Top Picks), May, 2019. [ Acceptance rate: 9% ]
Theme Article!
Mohammadkazem Taram, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April, 2019.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 21% ]
Mohammadkazem Taram, Dean M. Tullsen, Ashish Venkat, Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj MD,
In Proceedings of the 44th Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), March, 2019.
Ashish Venkat, Harsha Basavaraj, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February, 2019.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 21% ]
Best Paper Award Runner-Up!
Andreas Prodromou, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM), Feburary, 2019.
Ashish Venkat,
Doctoral Dissertation, UC San Diego, July, 2018.
Mohammadkazem Taram, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 45th ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June, 2018.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 17% ]
IEEE Micro Top Pick for architecture conferences held in 2018!
Manish Gupta, Vilas Sridharan, David Roberts, Andreas Prodromou, Ashish Venkat, Dean Tullsen, Rajesh Gupta,
In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February, 2018.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 21% ]
Ashish Venkat, Sriskanda Shamasunder, Hovav Shacham, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April, 2016.
[ Slides | Poster ] [ Acceptance rate: 22% ]
Ashish Venkat, Arvind Krishnaswamy, Koichi Yamada, Rajan Palanivel,
United States Patent Grant US009135435B2, September, 2015
Ashish Venkat and Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June, 2014.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 18% ]
Matthew DeVuyst, Ashish Venkat, Dean M. Tullsen,
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March, 2012.
[ Slides ] [ Acceptance rate: 21% ]
