CHE, SHUAI                                        

     Ph. D. Advisor: Kevin Skadron

       Computer Engineering, University of Virginia

       sc5nf at virginia.edu

  I graduated from UVA in Aug 2012 and currently work for AMD Research.

  I also contribute to SPEC's Accelerator Benchmark Suite. 

  Quick link to Rodinia

 Research Interest

     Computer architecture, heterogeneous computing, GPGPU and simulation methodology

 Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Virginia (Sept 2009 - Aug 2012)

• M.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Virginia (Aug 2006 - Dec 2009)

• B.E. in Instrument Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Sept 2000 - July 2004)

 Professional Experience

• Research visit to Prof. Lieven Eeckhout's group at Ghent University and Intel Exascience Lab, Belgium (May 2011 - July 2011)

• Co-op Engineer, AMD, GPU CTO Multimedia Group (May 2010 - Aug 2010)

• IT Specialist, IBM Global Business Services, Global Delivery, Shanghai, China (Aug 2004 - July 2006)

 Publications

• M. Boyer, K. Skadron, S. Che, and N. Jayasena. Load Balancing in a Changing World: Dealing with Heterogeneity and Performance Variability. To appear in Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computing Frontiers, May 2013.

• W. Heirman, T. E. Carlson, S. Che, K. Skadron, and L. Eeckhout. Using Cycle Stacks to Understand Scaling Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Workloads. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Nov. 2011.

• S. Che, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron.  Dymaxion: Optimizing Memory Access Patterns for Heterogeneous Systems.  In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputing), Nov. 2011.

•  S. Che, J. W. Sheaffer, M. Boyer, L. G. Szafaryn, L. Wang, and K. Skadron.  A Characterization of the Rodinia Benchmark Suite with Comparison to Contemporary CMP Workloads.  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Dec. 2010.

• S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, S. Lee, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. Rodinia: A Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Computing. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Oct 2009.

• S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. A Performance Study of General Purpose Applications on Graphics Processors using CUDA. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 68(10):1370-1380, Jun 2008.

• S. Che, J. Li, J. W. Sheaffer, K. Skadron, and J. Lach. Accelerating Compute Intensive Applications with GPUs and FPGAs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors, Jun 2008.

• S. Che, J. Meng, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. A Performance Study of General Purpose Applications on Graphics Processors. First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units