Chris Fallin

Second-year graduate student (2010-2011)
CALCM: Computer Architecture Lab @ CMU
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

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Chris Fallin
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Research

synopsis: I work with my advisor Dr. Onur Mutlu in the SAFARI research group on problems in parallel computer architecture. We focus on resource contention, fairness and system performance issues in large multicore/manycore systems, with a particular focus in on-chip networks and memory systems.

I am fortunate to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2009-2010 I was a recipient of an SRC Graduate Fellowship.

publications:

undergrad: I worked on Face Recognition problems in CVRL at Notre Dame, culminating in my undergrad thesis.

School

2009-present: Carnegie Mellon University
in-progress Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
2006-2009: University of Notre Dame
(B.S. Computer Engineering, summa cum laude)
2002-2006: Jesuit High School of Portland

Home
born / raised: Portland, Oregon metro (Beaverton)
undergrad: South Bend, Indiana (Notre Dame)
current: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Squirrel Hill)

Side Projects
speck: small OS kernel (circa 2002)
digilight: digitally-controlled low voltage halogen lighting
sudoku (writeup): a fast solver in 200 lines of Python
comparch: some simple Verilog processor cores
cflat: a toy compiler to x86 for a subset of C
pong: hardware (Verilog) implementation of Pong
and more: a full list and description of projects

Writings
leisure reading list for the past few years
odes and limericks to amuse and please
thoughts on teaching