People
Members of the Computer Architecture Group
This page is a list of members of the computer architecture group: past and present.
You can find a partially overlapping list of people that have marked computer architecture as an interest on the Computer Science and Technology website.
Academic staff and Fellows
- Simon Moore
Massively parallel and secure computer design
- Robert Mullins
Neural network accelerators and optimisation techniques, many-core
processor architecture and on-chip interconnection networks.
- Timothy Jones
Compilation and microarchitectural techniques for reliability, power saving and
automatic parallelisation.
- Robert Watson
Operating system security, capability systems, multi-processor network
stacks, CPU security models, the hardware-software interface.
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- Andrew Moore
Novel interconnect and network architectures incorporating photonics.
- David Greaves
System specification, hardware and software synthesis. General and
home networking. Reliable scripting and embedded systems. Compilers
for parallel architectures.
- Alan Mycroft
Languages and compilers, semantics and reasoning for fine-grain
concurrency, program analysis and compilation techniques applied to
hardware.
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Post-doctoral Researchers
Research students
- Mahwish Arif
Working on computer architecture optimizations.
- Alex Chadwick
Working on the Loki project.
- Marton Erdos
- Ivan Gomes Ribeiro
Working on the CHERI project.
- Joe Isaacs
Working on static data dependence analysis.
- Franz Fuchs
Working on secure speculation in superscalar processors.
- Nandor Licker
Working on optimisations applied to low-level IRs.
- Partha Maji
Working on neural-network compression techniques and architectures.
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- Aida Miralaei
Working on near-memory compute.
- Peter Rugg
Working on applying CHERI to the RISC-V architecture.
- Jyothish Soman
Working on the DOME project.
- Tom Sun
Working on SIMD vector architectures.
- Yiren Zhao
Working on neural-network architectures.
- Kevin Zhou
Working on automatic binary parallelisation.
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Alumni
- Sam Ainsworth (Ph.D. 2018)
Worked on heterogeneous compute and accelerators.
[Technical Report]
- Roy Spliet
Working on real-time systems.
- Hongyan Xia (Ph.D. 2019)
Worked on the CTSRD project.
Worked on capability memory protection for embedded systems.
[Technical Report]
- Colin Rothwell (Ph.D. 2018)
Worked on security of IO devices.
[Technical Report]
- Negar Miralaei
Worked on processor wearout and ageing. Sadly deceased October 2016.
- Alex Horsman
Worked on HDLs.
- Konstantina Mitropoulou
Worked on software fault tolerance. Went to Intel.
- Alan Mujumdar
Worked on multicore capability machines for the MRC2 project.
Went to Arm.
- Gheorghe Sarbu
Worked on flexible accelerators for low-power.
- Robert Norton (Ph.D. 2015)
Worked on multithreaded processors and communication techniques.
Became an RA in the Programming, Logic and Semantics group.
[Technical Report]
- Niall Murphy (Ph.D. 2015)
Worked on automatic parallelization.
Went to Arm.
[Technical Report]
- Andreas Koltes (Ph.D. 2015)
Worked on the Loki project.
- Vasileios Porpodas
Worked on automatic vectorisation. Went to Intel.
- Ali Zaidi (Ph.D. 2015)
Worked on the C3D project. Went to Arm.
[Technical Report]
- Steve Marsh (Ph.D. 2014)
Worked on the BIMPA project.
- Daniel Jones
Worked on hardware accelerators. Went to the University of Oxford.
- Paul Fox (Ph.D. 2013, then RA)
Worked on massively parallel neural computation for his Ph.D. and then
as an RA on the BIMPA project. Now at SolarFlare.
[Technical Report]
- Amitabha Roy
Worked on cache coherence for NUMA architectures.
- Greg Chadwick (Ph.D. 2012)
Worked on Communication-Centric Computer Design. Now at Broadcom.
[Technical Report]
- Meredydd Luff (Ph.D. 2012)
Worked on Communication-Centric Computer Design. Now starting his own company.
[Technical Report]
- Milos Puzovic
Worked on Communication-Centric Computer Design.
- Charlie Reams (Ph.D. 2012)
Worked on Modelling energy efficiency for computation
[Technical Report]
- Nick Barrow-Williams (Ph.D. 2011)
Worked on Communication-Centric Computer Design.
[Technical
Report]
Now at nVidia
- James Srinivasan (Ph.D. 2011)
Worked on cache architectures. Now at 23d.
[Technical Report]
- Dan Greenfield (Ph.D. 2010)
Worked on Communication-Centric Microelectronic Design. Won
the UK
distinguished dissertation prize. Founded fonleap
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- Andrew West
Worked on coding for optical networks.
- Jonathan May
Worked on Parallel Bridging Models.
- Saar Drimer
Worked as an RA on Communication-Centric Computer Design.
- Rosemary Francis (Ph.D. 2009)
Worked on switched interconnects for new FPGA architectures. Founded
her own company.
[Technical Report]
- Philip Paul (Ph.D. 2009)
Worked on hardware security techniques. Now at IBM Research in Zurich.
[Technical Report]
- Arnab Banerjee (Ph.D. 2008)
Worked on Communication Flows in Power-Efficient Networks-on-Chips.
Imagination Technologies, UltraSoC, nVidia.
[Technical Report]
- Alban Rrustemi (Ph.D. 2008)
Worked on dense wired sensor networks.
Cofounded fonleap.
[Technical Report]
- Matthew Johnson (Ph.D. 2008)
Worked on security of consumer security devices for internet banking.
[Technical Report]
- Ian Caulfield (Ph.D. 2007)
Worked on complexity-effective superscalar embedded processors using
instruction-level distributed processing, now at ARM.
[Technical Report]
- Simon (Harry) Hollis (Ph.D. 2007)
Worked on pulse-base on-chip interconnect.
Was a Lecturer at Univ. of Bristol for eight years before moving to IBM Research.
[Technical Report]
- Jacques Fournier (Ph.D. 2007)
Worked on vector microprocessors for cyptography.
Gemalto then EMSE, France.
[Technical Report]
- Petros Oikonomakos
Worked as an RA on consumer security devices. Now at Nokia.
- Jeong-Gun Lee
Was a visiting research fellow working on asynchronous networks on chip.
- Kate Taylor
Worked as a Teaching Associate on the Intelligent Verilog Compiler.
- Abderrahim Doumar
Worked only briefly as a Research Associate.
- Huiyun Li (Ph.D. 2005)
Worked on design time security validation.
Now a Professor at SAIT (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology).
[Technical Report]
- Scott Fairbanks (Ph.D. 2004)
Worked on mixing clocked and self-timed circuit techniques.
[Technical Report]
- Simon Frankau (Ph.D. 2004)
Worked on a high level functional hardware description language with stream processing features.
[Technical
Report]
- Panit Watcharawitch (Ph.D. 2003)
Worked on embedded multithreaded processors.
[Technical Report]
- Daniel Gordon
Was a Senior Research Associate on CODEX teaching project, now at RealVNC.
- George Taylor
Was a Senior Research Associate working on the GALS project, but had interests
in other projects. He also lectured ECAD from time to time. Now at Azuro/Cadence.
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