Christopher Batten

PhD Candidate
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Graduate Exchange Scholar
Parallel Computing Laboratory
University of California Berkeley

office : 545-S Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
email : cbatten mit edu
phone : 617-780-6222

I am pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am currently studying as a Graduate Exchange Scholar at the University of California Berkeley where I am finishing my thesis research on vector-thread architectures with Professor Krste Asanovic. My research interests include design methodologies for multi-billion transistor VLSI chips; low-power, high-performance parallel computer architectures; and parallel programming models.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  Pursuing PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  MPhil in Engineering, August 2000
  Winston Churchill Scholar
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  BS in Electrical Engineering, May 1999
  Jefferson Scholar and Rodman Honors Program

Publications

• Building Manycore Processor-to-DRAM Networks with Monolithic Silicon Photonics
  Christopher Batten, Ajay Joshi, Jason Orcutt, Anatoly Khilo, Benjamin Moss, Charles Holzwarth,
  Milos Popovic, Hanqing Li, Henry Smith, Judy Hoyt, Franz Kartner, Rajeev Ram, Vladimir Stojanovic, Krste Asanovic
  16th Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (Hot Interconnects), August 2008.
• Implementing the Scale Vector-Thread Processor
  Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, and Krste Asanovic
  ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2008.
  DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winner
  
• Scale Control Processor Test-Chip
  Christopher Batten, Ronny Krashinsky, and Krste Asanovic
  MIT CSAIL Technical Report, MIT-CSAIL-TR-2007-003 January 2007
  [ PDF]
  
• Cache Refill/Access Decoupling for Vector Machines
  Christopher Batten, Ronny Krashinsky, Steven Gerding, and Krste Asanovic
  37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37)
  Portland, Oregon, December 2004
  [ PDF | PS | Slides PDF | Slides+Notes PDF ]
• The Vector-Thread Architecture (Abridged version of ISCA 2004 paper)
  Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, Mark Hampton, Steven Gerding, Brian Pharris, Jared Casper, and Krste Asanovic
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences
  November-December 2004
  [ IEEE Digital Library ]
• The Vector-Thread Architecture
  Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, Mark Hampton, Steven Gerding, Brian Pharris, Jared Casper, and Krste Asanovic
  31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-31)
  Munich, Germany, June 2004
  [ PDF | PS ]
• A Scalable Cellular Logic Technology Using Zinc-Finger Proteins
  Christopher Batten, Ronny Krashinsky, and Thomas Knight, Jr.
  3rd Workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC-03)
  Munich, Germany, June 2004
  [ PDF | PS | Slides PDF ]
• pStore: A Secure Peer-to-Peer Backup System
  Christopher Batten, Kenneth Barr, Arvind Saraf, and Stanley Trepetin
  LCS Technical Memo 632, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  October 2002
  [ PDF | PS ]
  
• Sharpness Search Algorithms for Automatic Focusing in the Scanning Electron Microscope
  Christopher Batten, David Holburn, Bernie Breton, and Nicholas Caldwell
  Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp112-113
  Best Student Oral Presentation and Winner of Student Scholarship Award
  New York, NY, May 2001
  [ PDF | PS | Slides PDF ]
• Autofocusing and Astigmatism Correction in the Scanning Electron Microscope
  Christopher Batten, MPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge, August 2000
  [ PDF ]
• A Hardware Implementation for Component Failure Handling in Isotach Token Managers
  Christopher Batten, Undergraduate Thesis, University of Virginia, May 1999
  First Place in Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium
  [ PDF ]

Talks and Posters

• The Scale Vector-Thread Processor
  2nd Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping
  San Diego, CA, June 2007
  
• Cache Refill/Access Decoupling for Vector Machines
  Talk for MIT CSAIL Computer Architecture Workshop
  Ashland, MA, September 2004
  [ PDF ]
  
• A Scalable Cellular Logic Technology Using Zinc-Finger Proteins
  Poster for First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
  Cambridge, MA, June 2004
  [ PDF ]
  
• The Scale Vector-Thread Architecture
  Talk for Churchill College Graduate Research Seminar
  Cambridge, UK, March 2004
  [ PDF ]
• The Scale Architecture
  Poster for University of Cambridge Horizon Seminar
  Cambridge, UK, March 2004
  [ PDF ]
  
• Spongepaint: A General Purpose C++ Framework for VLSI Layout
  Talk for Cambridge-MIT Research Workshop
  Cambridge, UK, August 2003
  [ PDF ]

Other Research

• MIT Synthetic Biology Summer Research Program
  Inter-collegiate research competition to build synthetic biological systems
  June - August 2004
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• Kickbot: A Spherical Autonomous Robot
  Christopher Batten and David Wentzlaff
  May 2001
  [ PDF ]
  
• Adaptive Gate-Level Voltage Scaling using Dual-Voltage Domino Logic
  Christopher Batten and Ben Calhoun
  December 2000
  [ PDF | PS ]
  

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for 6.375 Complex Digital Systems
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  [ Spring 2005 & Spring 2006 ]
• Maslab: IAP Robotics Course
  Core organizer for month-long robotics course
  2002 - 2005
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