Sandhya Dwarkadas
Walter N. Munster Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science
About
Her research lies at the intersection of computer hardware and software with a particular focus on support for parallelism. She has made fundamental contributions to the design and implementation of shared memory both in hardware and software, and to hardware and software energy- and resource-aware configurability.
Education
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1986
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 1989
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 1993
Research Interests
Parallel and distributed computing
Computer architecture
Interaction and interface between the compiler
Runtime/operating system, and underlying architecture
Selected Publications
Courses Taught
CS 6190
Computer Science Perspectives
Awards
ACM Fellow
for contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability
IEEE Fellow
for contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability
University of Rochester 2020 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award
for excellence in teaching, research, and service