
- swanson@cs.ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-1743
- (858) 534-7029
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9500 Gilman Dr
3212 EBU3B
Mail Code: 0404
La Jolla , California 92093
Associate Professor, Department of CSE
The Non-volatile Systems Laboratory
Hardware/software interactions, applications and architectures for non-volatile solid-state memories, ultra-efficient specialized computing architectures, architectures for data-centric computing, and software optimizations for multi-core processors.
Steven Swanson's research focuses on understanding the implications of emerging technology trends on computing systems. He leads the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory (NVSL, where he oversees a wide range of projects related to non-volatile memories, how computer systems can leverage them to increase performance and efficiency, and other system-level issues they raise (e.g., in security). He also co-leads the GreenDroid project. The GreenDroid team is building a prototype processor that includes ultra-efficient co-processors for key portions of the Android smart phone operating system. All these projects focus on building prototype systems that must deal with hardware, software, and the boundary between them.
Steven Swanson is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and the director of the Non-volatile Systems Laboratory. His research interests include the systems, architecture, security, and reliability issues surrounding non-volatile, solid-state memories. He also co-leads projects to develop low-power co-processors for irregular, mobile applications (e.g., Android Apps) and to devise software techniques for using multiple processors to speed up single-threaded computations. In previous lives he has also worked on scalable dataflow architectures, ubiquitous computing, and simultaneous multithreading. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 2006.
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