David R. Kaeli, Professor
318 Dana Research Center
Phone: (617) 373-5413
Fax: (617) 373-8970
kaeli@ece.neu.edu
Dr. Kaeli received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers
University in 1992. He received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from
Syracuse University in 1985 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
Rutgers University in 1981.
For the 2001-2002 academic year he spent a year as a Visiting Professor
at the
Departament of d'Arquitectura de Computadors
at the
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.
Research:
Dr. Kaeli is the Director of the Northeastern University Computer
Architecture Research Laboratory
(NUCAR).
He is the co-leader of the Northeastern University
Institute for Information Assurance
(IIA) .
He is a Research Thrust Leader for the NSF
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
(CenSSIS) .
He is also a member of the
Northeastern University
Institute for Complex Scientific Software
(ICSS).
His research looks at the performance and design
of high-performance computer systems and software.
Current research topics include:
profile-guided compilation, high-ILP microarchitectures,
GPGPUs,
architectural features for security,
IO performance and modeling,
power modeling,
database systems,
branch prediction studies, workload characterization, memory hierarchy
design, embedded systems design, digital signal processors and software testing.
He frequently provides tutorials on the
subjects of Profiling and Instrumentation
and Trace-Driven Simulation .
Prof. Kaeli is a member of both IEEE and ACM, is presently the chair of
the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture,
the vice-chair of
IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture,
is ACM SIGMICRO Treasurer,
has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers, and
and presently serves as an Associate Editor of
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and the Journal of Instruction Level
Parallelism.
He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi honor societies.
Teaching:
In addition to his research activities, he teaches
courses in Computer Architecture and Peformance
Analysis.
Selected Publications:
Personal:
In addition to his love for teaching and research, Prof. Kaeli also
enjoys
trout fishing
and
soccer.