Michela Becchi
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Building II (EB2) 2020
[email protected]Bio
My research interests lie broadly at the intersection between computer architecture, systems software, and applications. In particular, my current research activities spawn different directions: design of programming models, compiler and runtime techniques for heterogeneous systems containing coprocessor devices; acceleration of bioinformatics, pattern recognition, and data analytics algorithms on parallel architectures; and high-speed implementation of networking applications (e.g., deep packet inspection). I am interested in any kind of parallel hardware: multi-core CPUs, GPUs and other many-core devices, network processors, field programmable gate arrays, and clusters of computers. I enjoy working at the boundary between hardware and software.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Engineering Washington University in St. Louis 2009
Master's Computer Engineering Washington University in St. Louis 2009
Bachelor's Computer Engineering Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2000
Publications
- Exploring Sparse Matrix Multiplication Kernels on the Cerebras CS-3 , arXiv (Cornell University) (2026)
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Graph Neural Networks Training at Different Scales , IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (2025)
- DIMPLES: Distributed Influence Maximization for Pandemic pLanning on Exascale Systems , ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) (2025)
- Exploring Lossy Compression of Activation Data for Emerging AI Accelerators: A Case Study on the Graphcore IPU , IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (2025)
- A Portable, Fast, DCT-based Compressor for AI Accelerators , ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) (2024)
- A Transducers-based Programming Framework for Efficient Data Transformation , International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (2024)
- FuseIM: Fusing Probabilistic Traversals for Influence Maximization on Exascale Systems , ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) (2024)
- Picasso: Memory-Efficient Graph Coloring Using Palettes With Applications in Quantum Computing , Proceedings - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (2024)
- Significantly Improving Fixed-Ratio Compression Framework for Resource-limited Applications , Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (2024)
- A Code Transformation to Improve the Efficiency of OpenCL Code on FPGA through Pipes , ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF) (2023)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- 2016 - University of Missouri System President Award for Early Career Excellence
- 2015 - NSF CAREER Award
- 2015 - University of Missouri, College of Engineering, Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award
- 2013 - University of Missouri, College of Engineering, Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
- 2012, 2011 - Best Paper Award - ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC)