8/8/2013 By Sneha Shukla, CS @ ILLINOIS
Written by By Sneha Shukla, CS @ ILLINOIS
CS graduate student Siva Kumar Hari has been selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September as one of 200 young researchers in the field of computer science and mathematics. This unique week-long forum brings together laureates of some of the most prestigious awards within science to interact with a select group of young researchers from around the world.
The forum is a joint initiative by the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and the Klaus Tschira Foundation. According to the forum’s website, “it is particularly important to create an environment for personal communication among people who are dedicated to science, among role models and young researchers.”
“It’s a great exposure to get. Very few people get such opportunities, and getting inspiration directly from our role models is invaluable,” said Hari, who is particularly looking forward to meeting laureates Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker, and Vint Cerf at the conference.
Hari’s field of research is computer architecture with focus on hardware reliability. He is working on providing affordable and tunable reliability solutions for programmers and system designers such that they can efficiently tailor system architectures to meet the desired reliability, performance, and power requirements. As part of his dissertation research, he developed Relyzer, a comprehensive resiliency analysis technique that systematically analyzes an application and identifies virtually all vulnerable program locations. This analysis enables identifying the lowest cost detectors to protect an application, providing a quantitative foundation for low cost application-centric resiliency solutions and error-resilient programming models. Hari has been with CS @ ILLINOIS since 2007. He will complete his PhD work this August, after which he will be joining NVIDIA Research.
“Hardware reliability is becoming an unavoidable challenge and practical solutions are in much need. I am excited about employing my expertise in computer architecture and reliability at NVIDIA, a dominant player in designing GPGPU-based commodity and high performance systems, and designing cost effective reliability solutions for the next generation computing devices,” said Hari.