Mark Oskin

Mark Oskin is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, focusing on Software & Hardware Systems. He leads the Sampa Group and collaborates on projects like HammerBlade and BlackParrot.

• University: University of Washington
• School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

His research spans Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, and Graph Processing, with additional expertise in Quantum Computing, Open Source Hardware, and Distributed Shared Memory. Ongoing work includes custom manycore devices for graph execution and open-source RISC-V designs. Past projects like Grappa and WaveScalar advanced distributed memory and dataflow execution.

Recent publications include BlackParrot: An Agile Open Source RISC-V Multicore for Accelerator SoCs (IEEE Micro 2020) and Perceptual Compression of Video Storage and Processing Systems (SoCC 2019), reflecting trends in hardware-software co-design, quantum systems, and energy-efficient video processing.

• Best Paper Award, USENIX ATC 2015
• IEEE Micro Top Picks, 2009

Mark has advised numerous students, including Amrita Mazumdar (IoT video compression startup), Brandon Lucia (CMU), and Steve Swanson (UC San Diego). He co-founded Corensic, a startup exploring deterministic multithreaded execution.