March 2, 2004

Solihin Receives NSF Career Award for High-Performance Server Research

Dr. Solihin

Dr. Yan Solihin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2004. The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $403,291 in funding over the next five years. Solihin will use the award to support his research project entitled “Intelligently Managing the Memory Hierarchy of Future High-Performance Servers.” This research addresses the unique challenges facing high-performance server design in the billion-transistor chip era.

Solihin advocates a synergistic design approach involving computer architecture, compiler and operating systems to tackle the problem of resource management in chip multiprocessor-based servers. His research will focus on the development of an intelligent memory hierarchy that can provide fine-grain inter-thread management of resources, offload critical memory-bound functions from the server and reduce context switch overheads.

His research interests include high-performance parallel computer architecture, architecture support for reliable and secure computer systems, and high-performance computing.

Solihin received bachelor’s degrees in computer science from the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, and in mathematics from the Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia, both in 1995. He received a master’s degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1997. He received another master’s (1999) and a doctorate (2002) in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the faculty at NC State in fall 2002.

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