Sandhya Dwarkadas

Sandhya Dwarkadas is a Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester's Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She holds a PhD from Rice University and has been recognized with an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award. Her work focuses on parallel/distributed computing, architecture, and compiler-runtime integration.

• Education: PhD, Rice University

Research Interests:

• Parallel and distributed computing
• Computer architecture and networks
• Compiler/Runtime/Architecture integration
• Software distributed shared memory
• Performance evaluation and simulation methodologies

Awards:

• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
• NSF CAREER Award

Projects & Contributions: Co-led the Cashmere and InterWeave distributed sharing projects, and leads the ARCH project (focusing on compiler/runtime/architecture integration for high-performance computing). Active in parallel applications development and uniprocessor/multiprocessor architecture analysis.

Labs/Teams: ARCH Project leadership, collaborating on runtime systems and architecture optimization.