Joel D. Coburn

Status

PhD student in the department of computer science and engineering at University of California, San Diego

Contact

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Office: CSE building, room 2150
Address: 9500 Gilman Drive #0404, La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
Phone: 858-534-9895
Email: joel at ucsd dot edu

Research

Current Work

I am co-advised by two awesome professors: Rajesh Gupta and Steve Swanson. Currently, I am working on the evaluation and design of efficient reconfigurable computational fabrics and on peta-scale solid-state storage systems.

Stream Programming and Multicore Architectures

We worked on a project to map the stream programming model to multicore general-purpose processors. We showed that the stream abstraction, with the aid of a software run-time layer, runs efficiently on multiple processor cores. An interesting result of this work is that the architectural features needed for streaming can be implemented in software.

Streamware: Programming General-Purpose Multicore Processors Using Streams, J. Gummaraju, J. Coburn, Y. Turner, M. Rosenblum, to appear at Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2008.
Architectural Support for the Stream Execution Model on General-Purpose Processors, J. Gummaraju, M. Erez, J. Coburn, M. Rosenblum, W. Dally, Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques(PACT), September 2007.

Embedded Systems Design

While a research assistant at NEC Laboratories America, I worked on digital system design techniques with an emphasis on low-power and security. Our projects are summarized in the following publications.

Security-Enhanced Communication Architecture, J. Coburn, S. Ravi, A. Raghunathan, S. Chakradhar, Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), September 2005.
Power Emulation: A New Paradigm for Power Estimation, J. Coburn, S. Ravi, A. Raghunathan, Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2005.
Hardware Accelerated Power Estimation, J. Coburn, S. Ravi, A. Raghunathan, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2005.

Acknowledgements: Thanks to everyone who served as a mentor or collaborator on the above work.

Teaching

In yet another past life, I was a grad student at Stanford. I had the opportunity to TA the following courses.

EE108A: Digital Systems I, the course formerly known as EE121: Digital Design Lab
EE183: Advanced Logic Design Laboratory now replaced by EE109: Digital Design Lab
EE282: Computer Systems Architecture

Fun Stuff

Things to do in San Diego...coming soon

Last modified 5 November 2008
by Joel D. Coburn.