Biography
Prof. Gokhan Memik is the
Wissner-Slivka Junior Chair Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Department of Northwestern University. He received the B.S. degree in Computer
Engineering in 1998 from Bogazici University and PhD in Electrical Engineering
from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003 under the direction
of William H. Mangione-Smith. He
was associated with Bimtek, a startup company providing internet solutions
between 1997 and 2000, and BlueFront Defenses, a startup company that designs
hardware-based network security solutions, between 2000 and 2002, and held
summer internships at HP Labs in 2000 and 2002.
His research area is
computer architecture. He is the
author of 2 book chapters and over 70 journal and refereed conference
publications. Papers co-authored
by him have been nominated for a best paper award at DAC (2005) and MICRO
(2008) and won the Best Student Paper Award at Supercomputing (2007). He is also the co-author of NetBench
and MineBench, two widely used benchmarking suites for networking and data
mining applications, respectively.
He has served in several program committees, was the co-chair for the
Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR) held in
conjunction with ISCA between 2004 and 2006, and the program co-chair of 2007
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40).
Gokhan Memik is the
recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008), Department of
Energy Early CAREER PI Award (2005), Searle Teaching Excellence Fellowship
(2004), Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), and Henry Samueli
Fellowship (2001).