معرفی
Antonia Zhai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2005), an M.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto (1998), and a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto (1996). Her office is located at 6-205 Kenneth H. Keller Hall, Minneapolis, MN.
Her research focuses on developing novel compiler optimizations and computer architecture features to enhance both performance and non-performance aspects of computing systems. Key interests include:
- Thread-level speculation for parallel processing
- Multicore architecture optimization
- Hardware/compiler co-design for security and reliability
- Dynamic performance tuning in heterogeneous systems
- High-speed network packet processing architectures
Her publications demonstrate sustained focus on parallel computing, compiler optimizations, and hardware security, with recent work expanding into network function virtualization and cache-side channel attack detection.
She leads the High-Performance Computing and Compilers (HPCC) group and organizes the weekly HPCC seminar series focused on architectures and compilers. She has advised 12+ graduate students including 8 PhD graduates now at companies like AMD, NVIDIA, and Oracle.
Significant research grants include:
- NFLambda: NFV Framework (NSF 2021-2025)
- Dynamic Binary Translation (NSF 2015-2019)
- In Vivo Software Monitoring (NSF 2009-2014)
- Embedded Fault Detection (NSF 2009-2014)
