Biosketch
Jun Yang received her PhD degree from the Computer Science Department, The University of Arizona. She was an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Riverside from 2002 to 2006. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Dr. Yang chaired the program committee of MICRO-53, served on the editorial board of several IEEE Transactions and ACM Transactions, and numerous program committees of top conferences such as ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA. She is included in the Hall of Fame in both MICRO and HPCA. Dr. Yang has received a best paper award in ICCD 2007, and co-authored a paper that was nominated for best paper award in HPCA-15, 2009. Dr. Yang is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2008. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Jun Yang's research interests include computer architecture, microprocessors, memory technologies. Her recent work have focused on architectural level security, GPU microarchitecture, DRAM technology, processing-in-memory, acceleration for machine learning, and quantum computing.
Research Projects
- Error mitigation in quantum computing
- Architectural Support for Securing Deep Neural Networks (NSF)
- A Software and Hardware Co-Design for Addressing the Performance Bottlenecks in Secure Non-Volatile Memory (NSF)
- Enabling Scalable Synchronizations for General Purpose GPUs (NSF)
- Past projects
Teaching
ECE 2162 | Computer Architecture |
ECE 3162 | Advanced Computer Architecture |
ECE 1110 | Computer Organization |
Recent Professional Activities
Steering Comittee | IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture |
Organizing Committee | MICRO 2020 (Technical Program Committee co-Chair) |
PhD Students
- Wen Wen (2014-2020) First employment: Cadence Design Systems
- Jiwei Liu (2013-2018) First employment: NVidia
- Rujia Wang (2013-2018) First employment: Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Xianwei Zhang (2013-2017, co-advised with Youtao Zhang) Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
- Lin Li (2007-2013) First employment: NVidia
- Bo Zhao (2008-2013) First employment: Apple
- Lei Jiang (2009-2012) Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
- Ping Zhou (2008-2012) First employment: Intel, AZ
- Yi Xu (2007-2012) Assistant Professor, Space Science institute, Macau University of Science and Technology
- Xiuyi Zhou (2005-2010) First employment: Microsoft, WA
- Wei Wu(2004-2008) First employment: Intel, Oregon; PhD Dissertation: Power/Thermal Modeling and Dynamic Thermal Management for SRAM Structure
- Lan Gao (2002-2007) First employment: VMware; PhD Dissertation: Security Designs for Uni- and Multi- Processors
- Jia Yu (2002-2007) First employment: VMware; PhD Dissertation: Architectural and Compiler Optimization for Network Processors
- Lingling Jin (2001-2006) First employment: nVidia; PhD Dissertation: Software Thermal Monitoring and Management for High-Performance Microprocessors
- Yan Luo (2001 - 2005, co-advised with Laxmi Bhuyan) First employment: Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell; PhD Dissertation: Performance Evaluation and Low Power Design of Network Processors