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About Me:

Murali Annavaram has been a faculty member in the Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California from 2007. He currently holds the Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair. His research focuses on energy efficiency and reliability of computing platforms. On the mobile platform end, his research focuses on energy efficient sensor management for body area sensor networks for continuous and real-time health monitoring. He also has an active research group focused on computer systems architecture exploring reliability challenges in the future CMOS technologies. Murali received NSF CAREER award in 2010 and an IBM Faculty Partnership award in 2009. He is also passionate about his teaching. He received the Stevens Institute's Innovation Inside curriculum award for jointly developing a mobile systems design course.

Prior to his appointment at USC, he was a senior research scientist at the Intel Microprocessor Research Labs from 2001 to 2007 working on energy efficient server design and 3D stacking architectures. In 2007 he was a visiting researcher at the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto working on virtual trip line based traffic sensing. His work on Energy Per Instruction Throttling at Intel is implemented in Intel Core i7 processor to turbo boost performance at a fixed power budget. His work on Virtual-Trip-Lines at Nokia formed the foundation for Nokia Traffic Works product that provides real time traffic sensing using mobile phones. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2001. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Murali Annavaram

Murali Annavaram
Assistant Professor
Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair
Ming Hsieh Department of EE
USC
Tel#: 213 740 3299
Email: annavara@myuniversity.edu

Noteworthy News

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities: If you are undergraduate student at USC send me an email if you are interested in working in my lab. We guarantee a fun filled rewarding research experience
  • ISQED2012 Paper Accepted: Our paper titled "A Case for 3D Stacked Analog Circuits in High-Speed Sensing Systems" was accepted for publication at ISQED 2012 (ISQED2012.pdf)
  • HPCA2012 Paper Accepted: Our paper titled "MACAU: A Markovian Model for Relaibility Evaluations of Caches Under WearAware:" was accepted for publication at HPCA 2012 (HPCA2012.pdf).
  • IISWC 2011 Paper : Our paper titled "Analyzing the Effect of Compiler Optimizations on Application Reliability" was published at IISWC 2011. (IISWC2011.pdf)
  • DSN 2011 Paper : Our paper titled "WearAware: Cross-layer Resilience Using Wearout Aware Design Flow" was published at DSN 2011. (DSN2011.pdf)
  • ISCA 2011 Paper : Our paper titled "CPPC Correctable Parity Protected Cache" was accepted for publication at ISCA 2011. (ISCA2011.pdf)
  • SIGMETRICS 2011 Paper : Our paper titled "Soft Error Benchmarking of L2 Caches with PARMA" was published  at SIGMETRICS 2011. Sigmetrics2011.pdf.
  • HPCA 2011 Paper: Our paper jointly with IBM titled "Guarded Power Gating in a Multi-Core Setting" was published  at HPCA 2011. HPCA2011.pdf
  • NSF CAREER AWARD 2010 awarded for my research proposal titled: "From Nonstop-Monitoring to Nano-ISA: An Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Framework for Processor Reliability". More details here.
  • The application of mobile devices in health care is an area that we started exploring recently. Our team received a coveted NIH supplemental grant for two years to build a complete mobile end-to-end system, called KNOWME,  that allows doctors to monitor the behavior of pediatric obesity subjects. We are now in the process of developing software in preparation for the field trials. We published several papers on this research. Please see the health related publications under my Research tab. This work is also funded by Qualcomm and Nokia. Please seee knowme.usc.edu for more details of this multi-disciplinary work.

 

My research in PRESS

  1. The KNOWME technology has now been covered by all possible news channels. See http://knowme.usc.edu/news.html for more details.
  2. Course on Mobile Programming: The EE579 course I co-teach with Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari was awarded Steven's Institute's Innovation Inside award. Here is the Steven's new article. Here is what Daily Trojan  has to say.
  3. Mobile Traffic Sensing: I co-developed a traffic monitoring system that uses GPS enabled cell phones to sense traffic conditions in real time. A large scale experiment was performed using this research platform in the San Francisco bay area on Feb 8th 2007. This research platform uses a novel concept of Virtual Trip Lines that I co-developed while working at Nokia prior to joining USC and I continue to collaborate on this project now with Nokia and UC Berkeley. The experiment was widely covered in many leading news media. Here is a select list: