Trevor E. Carlson

Trevor E. Carlson is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), focusing on high-efficiency microarchitectures, hardware/software co-design, and secure chip design for IoT and server applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ghent University (2014) and B.Sc./M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2002/2003).

Research Interests include energy-efficient processors, secure computing platforms, neuromorphic accelerators, and fast simulation methodologies. He co-developed the Sniper Multi-Core Simulator used globally for performance/power evaluation.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems (2016)
• Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (2013)
• Heidelberg Laureate Forum participation (2015)
• HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award for Sniper Simulator (2013)

Current Research involves secure Systems-on-Chip (SOCure project), hardware security for IoT, and simulation methodologies. He leads a lab with researchers working on topics like Capstone for trustless secure memory access and LABS for laser fault injection benchmarks.