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Daniel J. Sorin

Sorin

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Daniel Sorin is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research interests are primarily in computer architecture and dependability.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Bass Fellow
  • Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 403 Wilkinson Building, Durham, NC 27708
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5439
  • Email Address: sorin@ee.duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002
  • M.S. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998
  • B.S. Duke University, 1996

Research Interests

Computer architecture, designing microarchitectures so that they are easier to verify, improving computer system fault tolerance, developing memory systems for multicore processors, and designing special-purpose accelerators

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Program Chair of HiPEAC 2017. HiPEAC. 2017
  • Co-chair of selection committee for IEEE Micro's Top Picks 2016. IEEE Micro. 2016
  • Associate Editor in Chief. Computer Architecture Letters. 2015
  • IEEE Micro Top Pick. IEEE Micro. 2015
  • Best Paper Award. 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture. 2014
  • IEEE Micro Top Pick. IEEE Micro. 2011
  • Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award. Pratt School of Engineering. 2011
  • ACM Senior Member. Association for Computing Machinery. 2009
  • Eta Kappa Nu. Unknown. 2008
  • Intel Graduate Fellowship. Unknown. 2008
  • NSF Early CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2008
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Award. University of Wisconsin. 2008
  • Phi Beta Kappa. Unknown. 2008
  • Tau Beta Pi. Unknown. 2008
  • Top of 2004 - Nanocomputing Research. Technology Research News. 2008
  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2005

Courses Taught

  • COMPSCI 250D: Computer Architecture
  • COMPSCI 391: Independent Study
  • ECE 250D: Computer Architecture
  • ECE 552: Advanced Computer Architecture I
  • ECE 554: Fault-Tolerant and Testable Computer Systems
  • EGR 491: Projects in Engineering

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Oswald, N; Nagarajan, V; Sorin, DJ; Gavrielatos, V; Olausson, T; Carr, R, HeteroGen: Automatic Synthesis of Heterogeneous Cache Coherence Protocols, Proceedings International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, vol 2022-April (2022), pp. 756-771 [10.1109/HPCA53966.2022.00061] [abs].
  • Mehrabi, A; Sorin, DJ; Lee, BC, Spatiotemporal Strategies for Long-Term FPGA Resource Management, Proceedings 2022 Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Ispass 2022 (2022), pp. 198-209 [10.1109/ISPASS55109.2022.00026] [abs].
  • Sorin, DJ, Reconfigurable Hardware in Postsilicon Microarchitecture, Computer, vol 54 no. 3 (2021), pp. 4-5 [10.1109/MC.2020.3047006] [abs].
  • Mehrabi, A; Lee, D; Chatterjee, N; Sorin, DJ; Lee, BC; O'Connor, M, Learning Sparse Matrix Row Permutations for Efficient SpMM on GPU Architectures, Proceedings 2021 Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Ispass 2021 (2021), pp. 48-58 [10.1109/ISPASS51385.2021.00016] [abs].
  • Mehrabi, A; Manocha, A; Lee, BC; Sorin, DJ, Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Accelerator Synthesis, Acm Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, vol 18 no. 1 (2021) [10.1145/3427377] [abs].