Babak Falsafi is a Professor in the School of Computer and=20
Communication Sciences at EPFL, and an Adjunct Professor of=20
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
at Carnegie Mellon. He is the Microarchitecture thrust leader for the =
FCRP=20
Center for Circuit and System Solutions and directs the Parallel Systems =

Architecture Laboratory (PARSA) at EPFL. His research targets =
architectural=20
support for parallel programming, resilient systems, architectures to =
break the=20
memory wall, and analytic and simulation tools for computer system=20
performance evaluation. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER
award in 2000, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards between 2001 and 2004, and =

an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. He is a senior member of =

IEEE and ACM.