Fred Chong

Director
Computer Engineering Program


Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
Harold Frank Hall, Room 5113
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
voice: (805) 893-4143
fax: (805) 893-8553 (dept)
(801) 327-1868 (converts to e-mail, preferred for non-sensitive information)
chong@cs.ucsb.edu


Assistant to the Director: Libby Straight
Trailer 380, Rm 101
Telephone: 805/893-5615
Fax: 805/893-3262
libby@ece.ucsb.edu

Biographical Sketch

Fred Chong received his BS (1990), MS (1992), and PhD (1996) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His current work focuses on architectures and applications for novel computing technologies.

Current Research

  • Energy-Efficient Computing
  • Next-Generation Embedded Architectures
  • Quantum Computing Architectures
  • Hardware Support for System Security

    • Past Projects

  • Hardware Support for Software Safety
  • Intelligent Memory Systems
  • Parallel Applications
  • Interconnection Networks

    • Graduate Students

  • Vlasia Anagnostopoulou
  • Susmit Biswas
  • Arvin Faruque
  • Xun Li
  • Alan Savage
  • Hassan Wassel

    Recent Graduates

  • Jedidiah Crandall, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
  • Ravishankar Rao, Design Engineer, S-Machines
  • Tzvetan Metodi, Research Staff Member, Aerospace Corporation
  • John Oliver, Assistant Professor, Calpoly San Luis Obispo
  • Darshan Thaker, KLA Tencor

    Teaching

  • 154 Computer Architecture
  • 290N Parallel Computer Architectures
  • 290N Parallel Computer Architectures
  • 290N Novel Computing Technologies
  • 290N Extra-Performance Computer Architecture

    Professional Activities

  • Associate Editor, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computer Systems.
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization.
  • Program Committee Member, 10th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Bangalore 2010.
  • Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Toronto 2010.
  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium , Rome, Italy, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers , Ischia, Italy, 2008.
  • Tutorials Co-Chair, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Beijing, China, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems , Orlando, 2007.
  • Program Committee Vice-Chair, ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers , Ischia, Italy, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability (ASID), held in conjunction with ASPLOS, San Jose 2006.
  • Program Committee Member, 15th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Seattle 2006.
  • Program Committee Member, 10th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Austin 2006.
  • Program Committee Member, Conference on Nanosensing: Materials, Devices, and Systems III, Boston 2006.
  • Program Committee Member, 17th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2005.
  • Program Committee Member, Fourth Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, Portland, Oregon, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member, 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Munich, Germany, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member, 3rd Annual Workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC-3), Munich, Germany, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member, 10th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Madrid, Spain, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member, 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Anchorage, Alaska, 2002.
  • Program Committee Member, 8th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002.
  • Program Committee Member, 14th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2002.
  • Co-Chair, 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems held with the 9th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.
  • Publicity Chair, 8th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Santa Clara, California, 1998.

    • Funding

    Prof. Chong is funded by NSF, AFOSR, and Nokia.

    Personal

  • Publications
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