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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Timothy Sherwood is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research publications span multiple domains within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on hardware, architecture, and artificial intelligence.

Their recent published papers include the following works:

  • "Agile Hardware Development and Instrumentation With PyRTL," 2020, IEEE Micro
  • "Temporal Computing With Superconductors," 2021, IEEE Micro
  • "A Systematic View of Model Leakage Risks in Deep Neural Network Systems," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • "Analysis and Mitigations of Reverse Engineering Attacks on Local Feature Descriptors," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Loop Rerolling for Hardware Decompilation," 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sherwood include:

  • Georgios Tzimpragos
  • Jennifer Volk
  • Alex Wynn
  • Evan Golden
  • Deeksha Dangwal

They have contributed regularly to several publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • IEEE Micro
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Timothy Sherwood's research fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, the subfields they focus on cover:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Their main research topics are structured around:

  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Semiconductor Materials and Devices
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

In 2014, Timothy Sherwood was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

  • Automatically characterizing large scale program behavior

    Timothy Sherwood;Erez Perelman;Greg Hamerly;Brad Calder

  • Basic Block Distribution Analysis to Find Periodic Behavior and Simulation Points in Applications

    Timothy Sherwood;Erez Perelman;Brad Calder

  • Phase tracking and prediction

    Timothy Sherwood;Suleyman Sair;Brad Calder

  • Deterministic memory-efficient string matching algorithms for intrusion detection

    N. Tuck;T. Sherwood;B. Calder;G. Varghese

  • Active pages: a computation model for intelligent memory

    Mark Oskin;Frederic T. Chong;Timothy Sherwood

  • A High Throughput String Matching Architecture for Intrusion Detection and Prevention

    Lin Tan;Timothy Sherwood

  • Using SimPoint for accurate and efficient simulation

    Erez Perelman;Greg Hamerly;Michael Van Biesbrouck;Timothy Sherwood

  • Discovering and exploiting program phases

    T. Sherwood;E. Perelman;G. Hamerly;S. Sair

  • Complete information flow tracking from the gates up

    Mohit Tiwari;Hassan M.G. Wassel;Bita Mazloom;Shashidhar Mysore

  • A thermally-aware performance analysis of vertically integrated (3-D) processor-memory hierarchy

    Gian Luca Loi;Banit Agrawal;Navin Srivastava;Sheng-Chih Lin

  • Time Varying Behavior of Programs

    Timothy Sherwood;Brad Calder

  • Predictor-directed stream buffers

    Timothy Sherwood;Suleyman Sair;Brad Calder

  • Modeling TCAM power for next generation network devices

    B. Agrawal;T. Sherwood

  • Reducing cache misses using hardware and software page placement

    Timothy Sherwood;Brad Calder;Joel Emer

  • Sapper: a language for hardware-level security policy enforcement

    Xun Li;Vineeth Kashyap;Jason K. Oberg;Mohit Tiwari

  • SurfNoC: a low latency and provably non-interfering approach to secure networks-on-chip

    Hassan M. G. Wassel;Ying Gao;Jason K. Oberg;Ted Huffmire

  • Moats and Drawbridges: An Isolation Primitive for Reconfigurable Hardware Based Systems

    T. Huffmire;B. Brotherton;Gang Wang;T. Sherwood

  • Crafting a usable microkernel, processor, and I/O system with strict and provable information flow security

    Mohit Tiwari;Jason K. Oberg;Xun Li;Jonathan Valamehr

  • Bitwidth cognizant architecture synthesis of custom hardware accelerators

    S. Mahlke;R. Ravindran;M. Schlansker;R. Schreiber

  • Caisson: a hardware description language for secure information flow

    Xun Li;Mohit Tiwari;Jason K. Oberg;Vineeth Kashyap

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryan Kastner
Ryan Kastner University of California, San Diego
Brad Calder
Brad Calder Google (United States)
Frederic T. Chong
Frederic T. Chong University of Chicago
Dmitri B. Strukov
Dmitri B. Strukov University of California, Santa Barbara
Wei Hu
Wei Hu Nanjing University
Glenn Reinman
Glenn Reinman University of California, Los Angeles
Yuan Xie
Yuan Xie Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
George Varghese
George Varghese University of California, Los Angeles
Kaustav Banerjee
Kaustav Banerjee University of California, Santa Barbara
Lin Tan
Lin Tan Purdue University West Lafayette

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