Natalie Enright Jerger

Natalie Enright Jerger is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture and serves as Director of the Division of Engineering Science (2023-2028). Previously, she was the Percy Edward Hart Professor (2016-2019). She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2002), and M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004/2008).

Her research focuses on:

• Multi/many-core architectures and on-chip networks
• Cache coherence protocols and memory hierarchy optimization
• Approximate computing and sustainable systems
• Intermittent computing for energy-harvesting devices
• Hardware acceleration for machine learning

Her publications demonstrate strong emphasis on networks-on-chip (NoC) innovations, including routing algorithms, deadlock handling, power-efficient designs, and topology optimizations. Recent work expands into approximate computing, mobile architectures, and ML-driven hardware design.

Major Awards:

• Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (2023)
• McLean Senior Fellow (2019)
• IEEE Micro Top Picks (2016)
• ACM/IEEE Microarchitecture Hall of Fame (2015)
• Sloan Research Fellowship (2015)
• Canada Research Chair (current)
• Distinguished Scientist, ACM
• Fellow, IEEE

She leads the NEJ research group and collaborates with industry partners including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and IBM. Her work is funded by NSERC, CFI, and industrial grants. She co-chaired ASPLOS 2023 and HPCA 2014, and actively promotes diversity through WICARCH and ACM initiatives.