Onur Mutlu

Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bio

Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he previously held the William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, systems, and bioinformatics. He is especially interested in interactions across domains and between applications, system software, compilers, and microarchitecture, with a major current focus on memory and storage systems. A variety of techniques he, along with his group and collaborators, has invented over the years have influenced industry and have been employed in commercial microprocessors and memory/storage systems. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin and BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His industrial experience spans starting the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), and various product and research positions at Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, VMware, and Google. He received the inaugural IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Architect Award, the inaugural Intel Early Career Faculty Award, faculty partnership awards from various companies, a healthy number of best paper or "Top Pick" paper recognitions at various computer systems and architecture venues, and the ACM Fellow recognition "for contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems." His computer architecture course lectures and materials are freely available on YouTube, and his research group makes software artifacts freely available online. 

Education

PhD, 2006 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of Texas at Austin

MSE, 2002 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of Texas at Austin

BSE, 2000 
Computer Engineering 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BS, 2000 
Psychology 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research

My research interests are in computer architecture, especially the hardware/software interface and cooperation to improve the design of parallel system architectures. I am interested in designing novel and efficient hardware/software cooperative techniques to overcome fundamental performance, security, robustness, reliability, and efficiency challenges in current and future computer systems.