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Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
17956
World Ranking
2322
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to multiprocessor and memory architecture design and evaluation.
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multiprocessor architecture and memory systems
  • 2007 - ACM Senior Member
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Babak Falsafi is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics that include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Interconnection Networks and Systems, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, and Radiation Effects in Electronics.

Babak Falsafi has an extensive publication record with recent papers including:

  • Effective Interplay between Sparsity and Quantization: From Theory to Practice, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • What's Missing in Agile Hardware Design? Verification!, 2023, Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Scale-out Systolic Arrays, 2022, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • Exploiting Errors for Efficiency, 2020, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Efficient Nearest-Neighbor Data Sharing in GPUs, 2020, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization

Frequent co-authors in Babak Falsafi's publications include Mario Drumond, Yunho Oh, Djordje Jevdjic, Canberk Sönmez, and Mohammad Sadrosadati.

The scientist has published predominantly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and IEEE Micro.

Babak Falsafi has received several recognitions throughout their career, including:

  • ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to multiprocessor and memory architecture design and evaluation
  • IEEE Fellow (2012) for contributions to multiprocessor architecture and memory systems
  • ACM Senior Member (2007)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2004)

Best Publications

  • Clearing the clouds: a study of emerging scale-out workloads on modern hardware

    Michael Ferdman;Almutaz Adileh;Onur Kocberber;Stavros Volos

  • Gated-V/sub dd/: a circuit technique to reduce leakage in deep-submicron cache memories

    Michael Powell;Se-Hyun Yang;Babak Falsafi;Kaushik Roy

  • SMARTS: accelerating microarchitecture simulation via rigorous statistical sampling

    Roland E. Wunderlich;Thomas F. Wenisch;Babak Falsafi;James C. Hoe

  • Reactive NUCA: near-optimal block placement and replication in distributed caches

    Nikos Hardavellas;Michael Ferdman;Babak Falsafi;Anastasia Ailamaki

  • SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation

    T.F. Wenisch;R.E. Wunderlich;M. Ferdman;A. Ailamaki

  • Dead-block prediction & dead-block correlating prefetchers

    An-Chow Lai;Cem Fide;Babak Falsafi

  • Toward Dark Silicon in Servers

    N. Hardavellas;M. Ferdman;B. Falsafi;A. Ailamaki

  • Fine-grain access control for distributed shared memory

    Ioannis Schoinas;Babak Falsafi;Alvin R. Lebeck;Steven K. Reinhardt

  • Reducing set-associative cache energy via way-prediction and selective direct-mapping

    Michael D. Powell;Amit Agarwal;T. N. Vijaykumar;Babak Falsafi

  • Multi-bit Error Tolerant Caches Using Two-Dimensional Error Coding

    Jangwoo Kim;Nikos Hardavellas;Ken Mai;Babak Falsafi

  • An integrated circuit/architecture approach to reducing leakage in deep-submicron high-performance I-caches

    S. Yang;M.D. Powell;B. Falsafi;K. Roy

  • Spatial Memory Streaming

    Stephen Somogyi;Thomas F. Wenisch;Anastassia Ailamaki;Babak Falsafi

  • Dual use of superscalar datapath for transient-fault detection and recovery

    Joydeep Ray;James C. Hoe;Babak Falsafi

  • Shore-MT: a scalable storage manager for the multicore era

    Ryan Johnson;Ippokratis Pandis;Nikos Hardavellas;Anastasia Ailamaki

  • Scale-out processors

    Pejman Lotfi-Kamran;Boris Grot;Michael Ferdman;Stavros Volos

  • Meet the walkers: accelerating index traversals for in-memory databases

    Onur Kocberber;Boris Grot;Javier Picorel;Babak Falsafi

  • Die-stacked DRAM caches for servers: hit ratio, latency, or bandwidth? have it all with footprint cache

    Djordje Jevdjic;Stavros Volos;Babak Falsafi

  • JETTY: filtering snoops for reduced energy consumption in SMP servers

    A. Moshovos;G. Memik;B. Falsafi;A. Choudhary

  • Scheduling threads for constructive cache sharing on CMPs

    Shimin Chen;Phillip B. Gibbons;Michael Kozuch;Vasileios Liaskovitis

  • Spatial memory streaming

    Stephen Somogyi;Thomas F. Wenisch;Michael Ferdman;Babak Falsafi

  • Gated-V/sub dd/: a circuit technique to reduce leakage in deep-submicron cache memories

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Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Hoe
James C. Hoe Carnegie Mellon University
Anastasia Ailamaki
Anastasia Ailamaki École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thomas F. Wenisch
Thomas F. Wenisch University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
T. N. Vijaykumar
T. N. Vijaykumar Purdue University West Lafayette
Andreas Moshovos
Andreas Moshovos University of Toronto
James R. Larus
James R. Larus École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Todd C. Mowry
Todd C. Mowry Carnegie Mellon University
Steven K. Reinhardt
Steven K. Reinhardt Advanced Micro Devices (United States)
Michael Kozuch
Michael Kozuch Intel (United States)
Kaushik Roy
Kaushik Roy Purdue University West Lafayette

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