Majd F. Sakr

PhD, 2003 Electrical Engineering Department University of Pittsburgh

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Research Interests:

Computer microarchitecture and compiler optimizations targeting multimedia applications. Embedded systems, reconfigurable systems, and VLSI design.

Papers:

M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, R. Bodik, D.M. Chiarulli, "Optimize, Target, Fetch and Execute: General Purpose Exectution of Multimedia Applications," in the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, 2002. Mihai Budiu, Majd Sakr, Kip Walker and Seth Copen Goldstein, "BitValue Inference: Detecting and Exploiting Narrow Bitwidth Computations," Proceedings of Euro-Par 2000 Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1900 by Springer Verlag June 2000. M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Employing Optical Channels", in Optics in Computing '98, Pierre Chavel, David A. B. Miller, Hugo Thienpont, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3490, pp. 564-7 (1998). M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Architectures Exploiting High Bandwidth Optical Channels", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), April, 1998. M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns with Learning Models", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), ed. D. Fisher, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 305-312, July 1997. M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Performance of On-Line Learning Methods in Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns",Technical Report UMIACS-TR-96-59 and CS-TR-3676 Institute for Advanced Computational Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, September, 1996. M.F. Sakr, C.L. Giles, S.P. Levitan, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, D.M. Chiarulli, "On-Line Prediction of Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 1564, June (1996). Best Paper Award M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, "Predictive Control of Opto-Electronic Reconfigurable Interconnection Networks Using Neural Networks", 2nd International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, (ed.) E. Schenfeld, pp. 326-335, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October (1995).

Cycling:

Cycling in Pittsburgh.
Team NECI climbs the highest peak in the east.
"Hillier Than Thou" (can handle) revisited.
Another cycling trip with the guys around the Delaware Water Gap area in NJ.
Team NEC breaks all the records at Le Tour De L'ile in Montreal!

Majd F. Sakr / PittCad Group /

	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, R. Bodik, D.M. Chiarulli, "Optimize, Target, Fetch and Execute: General Purpose Exectution of Multimedia Applications," in the SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, 2002.
	Mihai Budiu, Majd Sakr, Kip Walker and Seth Copen Goldstein, "BitValue Inference: Detecting and Exploiting Narrow Bitwidth Computations," Proceedings of Euro-Par 2000 Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1900 by Springer Verlag June 2000.
	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Employing Optical Channels", in Optics in Computing '98, Pierre Chavel, David A. B. Miller, Hugo Thienpont, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3490, pp. 564-7 (1998).
	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, "Reconfigurable Processor Architectures Exploiting High Bandwidth Optical Channels", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), April, 1998.
	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns with Learning Models", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), ed. D. Fisher, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 305-312, July 1997.
	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, C.L. Giles, "Performance of On-Line Learning Methods in Predicting Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns",Technical Report UMIACS-TR-96-59 and CS-TR-3676 Institute for Advanced Computational Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, September, 1996.
	M.F. Sakr, C.L. Giles, S.P. Levitan, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, D.M. Chiarulli, "On-Line Prediction of Multiprocessor Memory Access Patterns", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 1564, June (1996). Best Paper Award
	M.F. Sakr, S.P. Levitan, C.L. Giles, D.M. Chiarulli, B.G. Horne, M. Maggini, "Predictive Control of Opto-Electronic Reconfigurable Interconnection Networks Using Neural Networks", 2nd International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, (ed.) E. Schenfeld, pp. 326-335, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, October (1995).