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8955
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Karin Strauss is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily explores the intersection of molecular biology and data storage technologies, with a focus on DNA as a medium for information retention and computing.

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues, including:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Probing the physical limits of reliable DNA data retrieval, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Synthetic DNA applications in information technology, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Quantifying molecular bias in DNA data storage, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Scaling DNA data storage with nanoscale electrode wells, 2021, Science Advances
  • Molecular-level similarity search brings computing to DNA data storage, 2021, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include Luís Ceze, Jeff Nivala, Karen Zhang, Kathryn J Doroschak, and Melissa Queen.

Research topics covered by Karin Strauss prominently feature:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • DNA and Biological Computing
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Social Psychology
  • Paleontology
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

Karin Strauss was recognized as an ACM Senior Member in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Random access in large-scale DNA data storage

    Lee Organick;Siena Dumas Ang;Yuan Jyue Chen;Randolph Lopez

  • An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer

    N.R. Adiga;G. Almasi;G.S. Almasi;Y. Aridor

  • Approximate Storage in Solid-State Memories

    Adrian Sampson;Jacob Nelson;Karin Strauss;Luis Ceze

  • Molecular digital data storage using DNA

    Luis Ceze;Jeff Nivala;Karin Strauss;Karin Strauss

  • Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Specialized Hardware

    Kalin Ovtcharov;Olatunji Ruwase;Joo-Young Kim;Jeremy Fowers

  • Use ECP, not ECC, for hard failures in resistive memories

    Stuart Schechter;Gabriel H. Loh;Karin Strauss;Doug Burger

  • A DNA-Based Archival Storage System

    James Bornholt;Randolph Lopez;Douglas Carmean;Luis Ceze

  • A DNA-Based Archival Storage System

    James Bornholt;Randolph Lopez;Douglas M. Carmean;Luis Ceze

  • POSH: a TLS compiler that exploits program structure

    Wei Liu;James Tuck;Luis Ceze;Wonsun Ahn

  • Progressive authentication: deciding when to authenticate on mobile phones

    Oriana Riva;Chuan Qin;Karin Strauss;Dimitrios Lymberopoulos

  • Approximate storage in solid-state memories

    Adrian Sampson;Jacob Nelson;Karin Strauss;Luis Ceze

  • Demonstration of End-to-End Automation of DNA Data Storage

    Christopher N. Takahashi;Bichlien H. Nguyen;Bichlien H. Nguyen;Karin Strauss;Karin Strauss;Luis Ceze

  • Atom-Aid: Detecting and Surviving Atomicity Violations

    Brandon Lucia;Joseph Devietti;Karin Strauss;Luis Ceze

  • DNA assembly for nanopore data storage readout.

    Randolph Lopez;Yuan Jyue Chen;Siena Dumas Ang;Sergey Yekhanin

  • An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer

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  • High density DNA data storage library via dehydration with digital microfluidic retrieval.

    Sharon Newman;Ashley P. Stephenson;Max Willsey;Bichlien H. Nguyen;Bichlien H. Nguyen

  • Pocket cloudlets

    Emmanouil Koukoumidis;Dimitrios Lymberopoulos;Karin Strauss;Jie Liu

  • Self-calibrating Online Wearout Detection

    Jason Blome;Shuguang Feng;Shantanu Gupta;Scott Mahlke

  • Tasking with out-of-order spawn in TLS chip multiprocessors: microarchitecture and compilation

    Jose Renau;James Tuck;Wei Liu;Luis Ceze

  • A High Memory Bandwidth FPGA Accelerator for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

    Jeremy Fowers;Kalin Ovtcharov;Karin Strauss;Eric S. Chung

  • Conflict exceptions: simplifying concurrent language semantics with precise hardware exceptions for data-races

    Brandon Lucia;Luis Ceze;Karin Strauss;Shaz Qadeer

  • Atomic In-place Updates for Non-volatile Main Memories with Kamino-Tx

    Amirsaman Memaripour;Anirudh Badam;Amar Phanishayee;Yanqi Zhou

  • Uncorq: Unconstrained Snoop Request Delivery in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors

    Karin Strauss;Xiaowei Shen;Josep Torrellas

  • Goldilocks and the two mobile devices: going beyond all-or-nothing access to a device's applications

    Eiji Hayashi;Oriana Riva;Karin Strauss;A. J. Bernheim Brush

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Ceze
Luis Ceze University of Washington
Sergey Yekhanin
Sergey Yekhanin Microsoft (United States)
Georg Seelig
Georg Seelig University of Washington
Josep Torrellas
Josep Torrellas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
José E. Moreira
José E. Moreira IBM (United States)
Doug Burger
Doug Burger Microsoft (United States)
Mark S. Manasse
Mark S. Manasse Microsoft (United States)
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta Google (United States)
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos Microsoft (United States)

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