Biography
Prof. Gokhan Memik is an Associate
Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of
Northwestern University. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering in
1998 from Bogazici University and PhD in Electrical
Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003 under
the direction of William H. Mangione-Smith. He was
associated with Bimtek, a startup company providing
internet solutions between 1997 and 2000, and BlueFront
Defenses, a startup company that designs hardware-based network security
solutions, between 2000 and 2002, and held summer internships at HP Labs in
2000 and 2002.
His research
area is computer architecture. He is the author of 2 book chapters and over 100
refereed journal/conference publications. Papers co-authored by him have been
nominated for a best paper award at DAC (2005) and MICRO (2008) and won the
Best Student Paper Award at Supercomputing (2007). Some of his works have
influenced commercial processor implementations. He is also the co-author of NetBench and MineBench, two
widely used benchmarking suites for networking and data mining applications,
respectively. He has served in several program committees, was the co-chair for
the Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR) held in
conjunction with ISCA between 2004 and 2006, and the program co-chair of 2007
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40). He is an associate
editor for International Journal on Reconfigurable Computing.
Gokhan Memik is the
recipient of the Wissner-Slivka Junior Chair
(2006-2009), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008-2013), Department
of Energy Early CAREER PI Award (2005-2008), Searle Teaching Excellence
Fellowship (2004-2005), Henry Samueli Excellence in
Teaching Award (2002), and Henry Samueli Fellowship
(2001-2002).