Michele Co

I am currently working as a research associate at the University of Virginia under the supervision of Jack Davidson. My work is related to applying software dynamic translation to problems in computer security.

In the 2006-2007 academic year I taught as a Lecturer here at University of Virginia. In Spring 207, I taught CS 101E: Introduction to Computer Science and CS 216: Data and Program Representation and in Fall 2006, I taught CS 216: Data and Program Representation and CS 333: Computer Architecture.

I completed my Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Designing Energy-Efficient Fetch Engines," under the supervision of Professor Kevin Skadron in the LAVA Lab and Dee A.B. Weikle (Degree date: August 2006). (Ph.D. defense presentation: PowerPoint or pdf)

Research Interests

CV

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Selected Publications

Refereed Publications

• M. Co, D. A.B. Weikle, and K. Skadron. "A Break-Even Formulation for Evaluating Branch Predictor Energy Efficiency." In 2005 Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED) held in conjunction with the 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2005. (Abstract | pdf | postscript)
• M. Co and K. Skadron. "The Effects of Context Switching on Branch Predictor Performance." In 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2001. (Abstract | pdf | postscript)

Journal Publications

• M. Co, D. A.B. Weikle, and K. Skadron. "Evaluating Trace Cache Energy Efficiency." ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) , Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 450-476. (Abstract | pdf)