Heidi Pan

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PhD Candidate, Computer Architecture, MIT

Advisor:     Krste Asanović
Groups:     SCALE (MIT) | ParLab (UCB)
Office:       582 Soda (Currently at UC Berkeley as an Exchange Scholar)

About Me:  Education | Research | Teaching | Industry | Social Entrep

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2002
Winner, Charles and Jennifer Johnson Award for Best M.Eng. Thesis in Computer Science, MIT, 2002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2001

Research Projects

Lithe: Liquid Thread Environment

project description
pdf "Lithe: Enabling Efficient Composition of Parallel Libraries "
Heidi Pan, Benjamin Hindman, and Krste Asanović (HotPar 2009)

Pin (Intel)

project description
pdf "Controlling Program Execution through Binary Instrumentation "
Heidi Pan, Krste Asanović, Robert Cohn, and Chi-Keung Luk (WBIA/PACT 2005)
tool download

Memory Timestamp Record

project description
pdf "Accelerating Multiprocessor Simulation with a Memory Timestamp Record "
Kenneth Barr, Heidi Pan, Michael Zhang, and Krste Asanović (ISPASS 2005)

Heads and Tails

project description
pdf "High-Performance Variable-Length Instruction Encodings "
Heidi Pan (M.Eng. Thesis 2002)
pdf "Heads and Tails: A Variable-Length Instruction Format Supporting Parallel Fetch and Decode "
Heidi Pan and Krste Asanović (CASES 2001)

Seedling Projects

InfiniCore: Explored an architectural design that supports dynamic partitioning and active messages.
Software-Controlled Coherence: Explored a software-controlled cache coherence design for InfiniT
that supports unbounded nested transactions (taxonomy) and code-specific coherence policies.
The InfiniT Stored-Processor Abstract Machine: Explored a new highly parallel architectural paradigm,
which provides an easy-to-reason-about parallel execution model, fast context switching, and
hierarchical protection domains. (project description)
Scalable Directory: Explored a scalable trie directory design that supports both fine-grained and
coarse-grained sharing with minimal storage requirements and access latencies. (taxonomy)

Teaching Experience

MIT 6.823 Computer System Architecture: Teaching Assistant, Spring 2003

Industry Experience

Intel VSSAD Group: Intern, Summer 2005
Synopsys HDL Compiler Group: Intern, Summers 1999 & 2000

Social Entrepreneurship

I am minoring in social entrepreneurship as part of my PhD program.

Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Spring 2007
How Citizens can Change the World Study Group, Harvard KSG Institute of Politics, Fall 2006