[Colloquium] Vijay Janapa Reddi talk, 5/20

[Sandra Quarles]

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When:		Friday, May 20, 2016 at 2:00pm

Where:		Ryerson 255

Speaker:		Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas at Austin

Title:		“Watt-Wise Web: Architecting for a Responsive and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web”

Abstract:		Web technologies have transformed the ecosystem. A critical challenge for sustaining the rapid growth of the Web is to provide a responsive user environment on a limited power budget --- battery-constrained mobile devices dominate the usage of the Web today and for the foreseeable future. The talk describes how we 			can design and achieve a high-performance and energy-efficient mobile Web computing substrate by taking a holistic yet integrated look at optimizing the mobile Web's system stack, spanning the application, runtime, and architecture layers. We can leverage webpage-inherent characteristics and the Web browser’s 				event-driven execution model to intelligently model, predict, and schedule Web application computations on hardware to improve their energy efficiency. We can also customize and specialize existing general-purpose processors and tailor them with hardware acceleration units for running Web applications efficiently. 			The talk highlights key findings, and also describes ideas under development to make the mobile Web energy-efficient.

Bio:			Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include computer architecture, and software design and optimization, to enhance mobile quality-of-experience and improve energy-			efficiency of high-performance computing systems. Dr. Janapa Reddi is a recipient of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Gilbreth Lecturer Award (2016), Intel Early Career Award (2013) and Google Faculty Research Awards (2012, 2013, 2015). He is also the recipient of the Best 				Paper at the 2005 International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Best Paper at the 2009 International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, and IEEE’s Top Picks in Computer Architecture awards (2006, 2010, 2011). Beyond his scientific research contributions, Dr. Janapa 			Reddi is passionate about STEM education. He is responsible for the Austin Independent School District’s “hands-on” computer science (HaCS) program, which teaches 5th and 6th-grade students programming and the principles that govern a modern computing system using Arduino devices. 			He received a BS in computer engineering from Santa Clara University, an MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University.

Host:		Fred Chong


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