Sudhanva Gurumurthi

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia


Research Interest: Computer Architecture
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Curriculum Vitae: PDF  (Last Updated: August 2013)

Current Research Projects (Click On the Links Below for More Details about Each Project)

  • Non-Volatile Memory
  • Microprocessor Reliability
  • Energy-Efficient Storage

    My research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Intel, HP, and Google.

    Students (Click Here for Full List of Current and Previous Students)

    Current Graduate Advisees

  • Sriram Sankar
    MS Thesis:Intra-Disk Parallelism (August 2008)

  • Luyao Jiang

    PhD Graduates

  • Taniya Siddiqua (August 2012)
    Dissertation:A Multi-Level Approach to NBTI Mitigation in Processors
    MS Thesis: Balancing Soft Error Coverage with Lifetime Reliability in Redundantly Multithreaded Processors (September 2009)
    First Employment: Intel, Hudson, MA


  • Clinton Wills Smullen, IV (September 2011)
    Dissertation:Designing Giga-Scale Memory Systems with STT-RAM
    First Employment: Google, Mountain View, CA

    Selected Awards/Honors (See CV for Full List of Awards and Honors)

  • ACM Senior Member, 2011
  • IEEE Senior Member, 2010
  • Google Focused Research Award - 2010
  • Google Faculty Research Award - 2007, 2009
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2007

    Press Coverage (Click Here for Full List of Press Articles)

    MIT Technology Review, June 13, 2011
    C-Ville Weekly, April 20, 2010
    Dr. Dobb's Journal, February 4, 2010
    NSF Highlight to the United States Congress, May 7, 2009
    Google Research Blog, January 28, 2009

    Selected Recent Publications (Click Here for Full List of Publications)
    Google Scholar Citation Profile: Click Here

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  • Soft Failures in Large Datacenters, IEEE CAL 2013
  • Feng Shui of Supercomputer Memory - Positional Effects in DRAM and SRAM Faults, Supercomputing 2013
  • A Novel Simulation Methodology For Accelerating Reliability Assessment of SSDs, MASCOTS 2013 (Detailed Version)
  • Modeling Power Consumption of NAND Flash Memories using FlashPower, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design 2013
  • Datacenter Scale Evaluation of the Impact of Temperature on Hard Disk Drive Failures, ACM Transactions on Storage 2013
  • Analysis of Memory Errors from Large-Scale Field Data Collection, SELSE 2013
  • Enhancing NBTI Recovery in SRAM Arrays through Recovery Boosting, IEEE Transactions on VLSI 2012
  • Phase Change Memory: From Devices to Systems, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture 2011 (Book) (Amazon Site)
  • Delivering on the Promise of Universal Memory for Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM), ISLPED 2011
  • Relaxing Non-Volatility for Fast and Energy-Efficient STT-RAM Caches, HPCA 2011

    Selected Talks (See CV for Full List of Talks)

  • The Storage Stack of Future Data Centers, Panel slides from the ACLD Workshop (held in conjunction with ISCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010.
  • Efficient Soft Error Protection for Microprocessors, HP R&D Research Seminar - Computer Architecture Technologist Series, March 2010.
  • The Role of Storage Class Memory in Future Hardware Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities, HPCA WEST Workshop - Keynote Talk, Bangalore, India, January 2010.
  • Intra-Disk Parallelism: A Green Storage Solution for Data Centers, Storage Developer Conference - Academic Innovation Spotlight Talk, Santa Clara, CA, September 2008.

    Selected Professional Activities (Click Here for Full List of Activities)

  • HPCA 2014, Industry Session Program Committee Member
  • IEEE Micro Top Picks 2014, Selection Committee Member
  • HPCA 2013, Program Committee Member
  • MICRO 2012, External Review Committee Member
  • NSF Workshop on Cross-Layer Power Optimization and Management, Invited Participant, February 2012
  • HPCA 2011, Program Committee Member + Submissions Co-Chair
  • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Associate Editor. Associate Editor-in-Chief (January 2010 - March 2011)
  • Phase Change Memory Tutorial, Co-Organizer. (Presented HPCA 2010, MICRO 2010, NVMW 2011).
  • FAST 2010, Program Committee Member
  • WISH 2009, Co-Organizer
  • ISCA 2009, Program Committee Member
  • SIGMETRICS 2008, Program Committee Member
  • ASPLOS 2008, Program Committee Member
  • IISWC 2007 Panel - Benchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era, Organizer and Moderator

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