Amir Roth Associate Professor Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania email: amir (you can figure out the domain name from the url) phone: 215.573.0175 office: 603 Levine hours: T 1:30-3, W 10:30-12, or by appointment my: cv

Research
My research interests are in the broad area of computer architecture and in the somewhat narrower sub-area of microprocessor and memory system design. Here is a list of my current and former PhD students and the projects they are working on:

• Andrew Hilton (expected August 2009)
  Dissertation: TBD (projects: ONCore, checkpoint-based processors)
• Tingting Sha (expected August 2008)
  Dissertation: Reducing Load Datapath Complexity Using Memory Dependence Prediction (other projects: RENO)
• Anne Bracy (expected May 2008)
  Dissertation topic: Mini-Graph Processing (other projects: register integration)
  First employment: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara)
• Vlad Petric (December 2007)
  Dissertation: RENO (other projects: pre-execution)
  First employment: Google (Manhattan)

• Physical Register Reference Counting.(pdf)
  Amir Roth.
  IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 1, 2008.

Teaching
This Semester I am teaching CSE 372: Digital Systems Organization and Design Lab. Here are some other courses I have taught:

• CIS 501: Introduction to Computer Architecture (Fall 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007)
• CSE 371: Digital Systems Organization and Design (Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• CSE 372: Digital Systems Organization and Design Lab (Spring 2004, 2005, 2008)
• Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture (Spring 2002, 2003)