About
GPUs and accelerators are the engines of modern AI and scientific computing. My research asks how to make them faster, more secure, and more reliable, and answers with new architectures, tools, and hard-won insights: from multi-GPU interconnects and memory hierarchies, to confidential computing and resilience, to simulators that predict how AI workloads will run on tomorrow’s hardware.
I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) and Anita Jones Faculty Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where I lead the Insight Computer Architecture Lab. Our work appears at ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS, the flagship conferences in computer architecture and systems. Our Ph.D. graduates now shape the field as faculty and as engineers at AMD and NVIDIA. I received the NSF CAREER Award, a Google Research Scholar Award, and William & Mary’s Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, was named an Outstanding Researcher at UVA, and am a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE. Before UVA, I was the Adina Allen Associate Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary; I received my Ph.D. from Penn State in 2015.
Highlights
- Service I am Program Co-Chair for IISWC 2026, the premier conference on workload characterization. Check out the program here.
- UVA I am leading the GPU-Accelerated Computing Research Interest Group at UVA, which is supported by the UVA SEAS RIG and UVA Research Hub programs. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch.
News
All news →- May 2026Amel successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and joined AMD as a Member of Technical Staff. Congrats Dr. Fatima!
- March 2026Yang's ISCA 2026 paper got accepted! Read the paper here.
- March 2025Amel's ISCA 2025 paper got accepted! Read the paper here.
- March 2025Ying's ISCA 2025 paper got accepted! Read the paper here.
- March 2025Yang's ISPASS 2025 paper got accepted! Read the paper here.
Recent Publications
All publications →-
ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Raleigh, NC, June 2026 · Acceptance rate 161/845 ≈ 19%
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IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Seoul, South Korea, April 2026
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ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Tokyo, Japan, June 2025 · Acceptance rate 127/570 ≈ 22%
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ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Tokyo, Japan, June 2025 · Acceptance rate 127/570 ≈ 22%
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IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Ghent, Belgium, May 2025 · Acceptance rate 28/99 ≈ 28%
Teaching
All courses →- Fall 2026 CS 4444 Introduction to Parallel Computing · Undergraduate
- Spring 2026 CS 6501 GPU Architectures · Graduate, special topics