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Meet the Participants
Meet the Participants
August Ning
August Ning
EPFL
August Ning is a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL working with Prof. Babak Falsafi, PARSA, and EcoCloud. His research interests span computer architecture under emerging and pressing constraints such as datacenter design and operation, sustainability, economic trends, and AI/computing policy. August received his PhD from Princeton University where he was advised by Prof. David Wentzlaff and supported by Princeton’s Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship and the NSF GRFP.
Ryan Wong
Ryan Wong
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ryan Wong is a final-year Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working under Prof. Saugata Ghose. His research interests are in the broad area of computer architecture, with particular emphasis in memory and storage systems, as well as accelerators for machine learning, scientific computing/SciML, and database systems. He has been named an MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Star and a Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher and recognized with a University of Rochester Hopeman Fellowship and a University of Illinois Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship. He received his B.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Chemistry, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering all from the University of Rochester.
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos
ETH Zurich
Konstantinos recently defended his PhD dissertation at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu in the SAFARI Research Group. Before joining ETH, he received his Master’s diploma at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also spent some time as a visiting student at the Huawei Zurich Research Center and Microsoft Research Cambridge. His research lies at the intersection of hardware, software, and operating systems with a focus on high performance, energy efficiency, and programmability. Lately, he is exploring system and architecture design for Physical AI applications. His works have been published in top-tier conferences such as MICRO, ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA and DSN. His work has been recognized with Best Paper Awards at MICRO 2022, HiPEAC 2023, ISCA 2024, and Distinguished Artifact Awards at MICRO 2023 and HPCA 2026. He also recently joined SIGMICRO's MICRO Hall of Fame.
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi
ETH Zurich
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi is a postdoc at ETH Zurich, where she recently defended her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Onur Mutlu. Her research spans the computing stack to tackle computational challenges in healthcare, life sciences, and beyond. She is especially excited about designing high-performance, energy-efficient, low-cost, secure, and privacy-preserving computing systems for (i) widespread adoption of data-intensive applications in healthcare and life sciences, and (ii) enabling new solutions that were out of reach before, both in these domains and in other critical domains, such as AI/ML. Her research has been published in major computer architecture and bioinformatics venues, and has received several recognitions, including an upcoming induction into the ISCA Hall of Fame (2026), an ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowship (supporting her visiting research period at Stanford University), selection as one of 20 young researchers to present at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2026, and PACT SRC 2024 ACM Grand Finalist.
Suhas Vittal
Suhas Vittal
Georgia Tech
Suhas Vittal is a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech. His research interests primarily tackle architectural challenges in quantum computing with specific contributions improving performance and reliability through improvements in the control processor, decoding subsystem, and QEC architecture. His research has also been recognized with an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, a IEEE Top Picks Honorable Mention in 2023, and a Best Paper Award at QCE 2025.
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