• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
Paul Gratz

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin – 2008

Research Interests

    • Security, power, reliability and performance in multicore and distributed computer architectures
    • Processor memory systems
    • On-chip interconnection networks

Selected Publications

  • “Kill the program counter: Reconstructing program behavior at the last level cache”, J. Kim, E. Teran, P. V. Gratz, D. Jimenez, S. Pugsley, C. Wilkerson, 22nd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Apr. 2017. Acceptance rate: 17.4%
  • “Path Confidence based Lookahead Prefetching”, J. Kim, S. Pugsley, P. V. Gratz, A. Reddy, C. Wilkerson, Z. Chishti, The 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct. 2016. Acceptance rate: 22%, Nominated for Best Paper (6/283, top 2.1%)
  • “A Control-Theoretic Approach for Energy Efficient CPU-GPU Subsystem in Mobile Platforms”, D. Kadjo, R. Ayoub, M. Kishinevsky, and P. V. Gratz. The 52th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2015. Nominated for Best Paper (7/804, top .8%)
  • “B-Fetch: Branch Prediction Directed Prefetching for Chip-Multiprocessors”, D. Kadjo, J. Kim, P. Sharma, R. Panda, P. V. Gratz, D. A. Jime´nez, The 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec. 2014. Nominated for Best Paper (5/279, top 1.8%)
  • “Up By Their Bootstraps: Online Learning in Artificial Neural Networks for CMP Uncore Power Management”, J. Won, X. Chen, P. V. Gratz, J. Hu, and V. Soteriou, The 20th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2014. Acceptance rate: 25%
  • “An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System”, M. Gebhart, B. Maher, K.E. Coons, J. Diamond, P. Gratz, M. Marino, N. Ranganathan, B. Robatmili, A. Smith, J. Burrill, S.W. Keckler, D. Burger, K.S. McKinley. The 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2009. Acceptance rate: 27%. Best Paper Award