Research Group

Overview

The Systems Optimization and Computer Architecture Lab (SoCal) focuses on a broad range of computer systems-related research, spanning data centers to microarchitecture.

With the emergence of cloud-scale computing and the impeding end of Moore's law, computer systems innovation faces unprecedented obstacles across the entire hardware-software stack. With the slowdown in technology scaling, the onus of future power and performance improvements falls solely on microarchitecture and software innovations to make more efficient use of the hardware. Similarly, at the data center scale, novel innovations are required to make efficient use of commodity hardware in the face of data-intensive workloads, heterogenous hardware, and energy-constrained infrastructures.

Current Members

Daniel Wong
Associate Professor

Mohammadreza Rezvani
PhD, Computer Science

Nafis Mustakin
PhD, Computer Science

Ziyang Jia
PhD, Computer Science

Ryan Quach
PhD, Computer Science
Co-advised with Prof. Hyoseung Kim

Muntaka Ibnath
PhD, Computer Science

Sara Rashidi Golrouye
PhD, Computer Science

Racquel Awuor
PhD, Electrical Engineering

Alumni Members

PhD

Dr. Amirali Abdolrashidi
PhD, Computer Science, 2021
Google

Prof. Devashree Tripathy
PhD, Computer Science, 2021
Co-advised with Prof. Laxmi Bhuyan
Post-Doc @ Harvard → Assistant Professor @ IIT Bhubaneswar

Dr. Kiran Ranganath
PhD, Electrical Engineering, 2022
SambaNova

Prof. Marcus Chow
PhD, Computer Science, 2023
Assistant Professor @ Los Angeles Harbor College

Dr. Ali Jahanshahi
PhD, Computer Science, 2024
Qualcomm

MS

  • Andrew Tee, MS EE, expected 2025

  • Brian Chen, MS CEN, expected 2025.

  • Alvin Hoang, MS CEN, expected 2025

  • Christopher Yonemoto, MS EE, expected 2025

  • Diwakar Ravichandran, MS Robotics, Spring 2025.

  • Bilal Nasir, MS CS, Winter 2025. Last seen: Ford Motor Company

  • Huy Tran, MS CEN, 2023. Last seen: CS PhD, University of Kansas

  • Songrui He, MS CEN, 2021.

  • Kaustubh Singh, MS CEN, 2020. Last seen: Qualcomm

  • Manjunath Shivashankarappa, MS CEN, 2019. Last seen: Amazon

  • Haoxiang Li, MS CEN, 2019. Last seen: Kwest

  • Shahriyar Valielahi Roshan, MS CS, 2018. Last seen: Founder, LucidCo Inc.

  • Yukun Chen, MS EE, 2017.

  • Ruiwen Li, MS CEN, 2016. Last seen: Amazon

Our work is generously supported by the following sponsors: