V. Layne Berry, a third-year Computer Science student, has been named one of CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Honorable Mention recipients.The Computing Research Association (CRA) award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Since the Summer of 2019, Layne Berry has been working with Assistant Professor Ashish Venkat on Speculative Superoptimization, which is geared at speculatively identifying run-time program invariants, and further optimizing a running program—entirely internally within the processor. Her work has developed novel value predictors, sophisticated microcode-based transformations, and uncovered promising performance potential.
Congratulations to Layne for earning Honorable Mention by the CRA as an outstanding undergraduate researcher!