Akanksha Jain

Computer architect at large

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Excited to announce a machine-learning based data prefetching competition that will be part of the ML for Architecture workshop at ISCA 2021.

https://t.co/EJVElVXiD6

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@jonathan_beard @Google Welcome @jonathan_beard

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@Prashxnt_Nair I just go to the ice cream aisle, and we always find each other there.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

How to find (and operate in) your Zone of Genius:

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@vj_chidambaram @AkshithaSriram1 @TweetAtAKK This is based on archaic assumptions about what a non-tenured job looks like. Workplace culture is evolving. Every industry job I've had, I've been asked for feedback on my boss. Not in academia. It's possible to build a culture of openness without offering life-long job security

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@TweetAtAKK @mmcthrow @vj_chidambaram We can agree to disagree there. Maybe I'll change my mind in a few years. I think blue sky research is an idea that academics like to believe they are all collectively doing, but very few actually do.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@AkshithaSriram1 @danwilhelm @vj_chidambaram Exactly. Grad students are not guinea pigs to indulge a tenured prof's idea of long-term risky research.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@vj_chidambaram @TweetAtAKK I am finding it a lot easier to think about a longer horizon and not publish for a while outside academia :) Not convinced that tenure is necessary to enable long-term research. Maybe evaluation mechanisms that are scoped longer term, not life-long job security.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@mmcthrow @vj_chidambaram I don't buy the "tenure enables risky research" argument. Plenty of risky research comes out of industry too. Doing risky research is enabled by funding and balancing your research portfolio, not life-long job security. Grad students also have careers to prepare for.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@TweetAtAKK @vj_chidambaram I am not worried about people slacking off but rather overfitting their career goals to meet tenure reqs. Tenure apps could be the root cause behind this paper count frenzy we see in academia, which to be honest, has done more harm than good.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Congratulations, @djimeneth! So well-deserved. The neural branch predictor was the first paper I read in grad school, and it really inspired me to do computer architecture research.

[Samira Khan @samiramanabi]

Congratulations to @djimeneth for the IEEE Computer Society 2021 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award!

https://t.co/iN0DmuTS9X

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Excellent thread by @vj_chidambaram!

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

So I recently moved to California, and apparently a lock and key is too old fashioned for Silicon Valley. You need to install an app, verify your identity and scan your phone 10 different ways to get in any apartment.

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@andrew_mccrabb It's worse with exclamation marks and question marks...

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@LAM_Barrett Torchy's

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Literally my thought process every weekend...

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Houseguests https://t.co/m2ZSGrWao7 https://t.co/WaC7oJdfnU

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

@ThaleiaDimitra Thanks @ThaleiaDimitra for your questions and feedback!

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Next up is the super awesome @chris_deli who is going to talk about "Leveraging ML to Improve the Design of Large-Scale Cloud Systems"

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Happening now! @tim_kraska is talking about Instance-Optimized Data Systems.

https://t.co/M9vNIFPQvj

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajain]

Congrats to Alberto Ros (University of Murcia) for winning the ML-DPC and to Andrew, Ali, Mehdi, Mieszko and Prashant (UBC) for second place! 🥳🏆🎊

We had so much fun organizing this competition and hope to be back for a second round!

[Amir Yazdan @ayzddzya]

Congratulations to the best paper award winners!
"Synthesizing Low-Power Approximate Hardware with Large-Scale Search" at MLArchSys workshop 2021 @parasjain #SafeenHuda @martin_maas @Azaliamirh @mejoeyg #IonStoica
#isca #mlarchsys