Ruchira Sasanka

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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uiuc.edu
(217) 244-0426

Research Interests

Computer architecture: Chip multiprocessors (CMP) and Simultaneously multithreaded (SMT) processors, energy efficiency of SMT and CMP processors, hardware adaptations for energy efficiency, hardware support for media and networking workloads. A member of the RSIM Architecture group and currently working on the ALP project.

Education

B.Sc. (Engineering) University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Department of Computer Science & Engineering) (1998)
M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of Computer Science) (2002)
Currently a PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publications

R. Sasanka, M. Li, S. V. Adve, Y.-K. Chen, E. Debes. ALP: Efficient Support for All Levels of Parallelism for Complex Media Applications. Submitted for publication.
M. Li, R. Sasanka, S. V. Adve, Y. -K. Chen, and E. Debes. The ALPBench Benchmark Suite for Multimedia Applications, UIUC CS Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2603, July 2005. pdf
Ruchira Sasanka, Sarita Adve, Eric Debes and Yen-Kuang Chen. The Energy Efficiency of CMP and SMT Architectures for Multimedia Workloads. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '04) June 2004. pdf (UIUC Tech Report: pdf)
Ruchira Sasanka, Christopher Hughes and Sarita Adve. Joint Local and Global Adaptation for Energy. In Proc. of 10th Intl. Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2002. pdf ps
Sarita V. Adve et al. The Illinois GRACE Project: Global Resource Adaptation through CoopEration, Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Healing, Adaptive, and self-MANaged Systems (held at the 16th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing), 2002. ps
Sardha Wijesoma, Ruchira Sasanka et al. An ANN Based Music Score Interpreter. IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, 1998.

Honors and Awards

Intel Fellowship (2003), First class honors (1998)