Simha Sethumadhavan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University

Office: 465 CSB
Directions

Phone:1 212 939 7062
Fax:1 212 666 0140

Email: simha@cs.columbia.edu
Snail mail:
Prof. Sethumadhavan
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
1214 Amsterdam Ave.
450 CSB
Mail Code 0401
New York NY 10027.

Research Interests

Computer Architecture, VLSI design, Hardware Security

Current Research Projects

Domain Specific Accelerators
Hardware Support for Detecting Insider Attacks

Select Recent Publications

COMPASS: A Community-driven Parallelization Advisor for Sequential Software IWMSE 09 (pdf)
Multitasking Workload Scheduling in Flexible-Core Chip Multiprocessors PACT 2008 (pdf)
Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation [PhD Thesis] (pdf)
Composable Lightweight Processors [Micro 07 and nominated for CACM Top Picks (3/36)] (pdf)

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Current Graduate Students

John Demme
- Accelerator Microarchitecture, Compilation, Programming
Ryan Roberts
- Low-power Graphics Accelerator
Ravi Ganapathi Babu
- Insider Attack Detection Protocol Verification
Vish Venkatesh
- Workload Characterization, Accelerator Discovery
Adam Waksman
- Hardware Support for Detecting Insider Attacks

Teaching

Fall 2009: EECS 4340 Computer Hardware Design (Tuesday/Thursday 5:40 - 6:55 PM)
Spring 2009: CSEE 6824: Parallel Computer Architecture (Tuesdays 6:10 - 8:00 PM)
Fall 2008: COMS E6998-1: Advanced Computer Architecture - Parallel Systems and Programming
Spring 2008: CSEE3827: Fundamentals of Computer Systems

Infrastructure

Simcity Cloud: 48 x (8-core processors, 24 GB RAM) + 30 TB, Fibre Channel
Simlab Cluster: 8 x (8-core processors, 24 GB RAM, 1 TB RAID)
CLIClab Cluster: 36 x (8-core processors, 24 GB RAM, 1 TB RAID)
Synopsys toolchain, architecture simulators etc.

Random

Cat-warmer from microprocessor waste heat - Wild and Crazy ideas, ASPLOS 2006. (pdf) (ppt)
I, Robot, Architect - Wild and Crazy ideas, ASPLOS 2009. (pdf) with John Demme