Vertical Research Group

Principal Investigator

Collaborators

Bill Mark, Intel and UT-Austin

Mary Vernon

Cristi Estan

Students

Graduate students

Marc de Kruijf	Venkatraman Govindaraju	Amit Kumar
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Undergraduate students

About the PI

Karu Sankaralingam joined the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in January, 2007. Dr. Sankaralingam earned his Bachelor's degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. During his PhD, he was the lead student designer of the TRIPS chip, a prototype machine built to investigate technology scalable parallelism. The TRIPS chip was built at 130nm technology and contains over 170 million transistors. His dissertation examined polymorphism - A unified approach for extracting Concurrency of different granularities.