Group Associates
Group Associates are senior researchers or postdocs from the EFCL research groups acting as a dedicated points of contact for the EFCL management team, participating in EFCL-related research, and engaging fully in EFCL activities.
Dr. Maciej Besta
Maciej works in the areas of high-performance irregular computations and interconnects at the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at ETH Zurich. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2021. He won, among others, the competition for the Best Student of Poland (2012), the first Google Fellowship in Parallel Computing (2013), the ACM/IEEE-CS High-Performance Computing Fellowship (2015), and the ETH Medal for outstanding doctoral thesis (2021). He received Best Paper awards and Best Student Paper awards at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2013, 2014, and 2019, at ACM HPDC 2015 and 2016, ACM Research Highlights 2018, and several more best paper nominations.
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Dr. Yawei Li
Yawei is a Lecturer at ETH Zürich. His research focus is on efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence algorithms and systems with applications to vision, language, and biosignals. In particular, he is interested in the following topics: Foundation model for biosignals, Efficient deep neural network design (vision), Model quantization and pruning (vision and language), Model deployment on RISC-V cores (vision and language), DNN on embedded systems (biosignal, vision)
Dr. Mohammad Sadrosadati
Mohammad Sadrosadati received Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. H. Sarbazi-Azad. He spent one year, from April 2017 to April 2018, as an academic guest at ETH Zurich hosted by Prof. O. Mutlu during his Ph.D. program. He is currently a senior researcher and lecturer in the SAFARI research group at ETH Zurich. His research interests are in the areas of heterogeneous computing, processing-in-memory, memory systems, and interconnection networks. Due to his achievements and impact on improving the energy efficiency of GPUs, he won the Khwarizmi Youth Award, one of the most prestigious awards, as the first laureate in 2020, to honor and embolden him to keep taking even bigger steps in his research career.