I am a researcher in computer architecture. My broader interests include computer systems and digital circuits.
In 2020, I earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. My advisor was Professor Daniel Sanchez.
In 2016, I received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
In 2014, I earned a Bachelor Degree in Microelectronics and a Second Bachelor Degree in Economics from Tsinghua University.
I was an exchange student at University of Southern California in 2013, where I worked with Professor Peter Beerel.
Brief Announcement: Is the Problem-Based Benchmark Suite Fearless with Rust?
Javad Abdi, Guowei Zhang, and Mark C. Jeffrey
In Proceedings of the 35th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA’23), June 2023
[Paper]
A scalable architecture for reprioritizing ordered parallelism
Gilead Posluns, Yan Zhu, Guowei Zhang, and Mark C. Jeffrey
In Proceedings of the 49th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-49), June 2022
[Paper]
Gamma: Leveraging Gustavson’s Algorithm to Accelerate Sparse Matrix Multiplication
Guowei Zhang, Nithya Attaluri, Joel Emer, and Daniel Sanchez
In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-26), April 2021
[Paper]
Extending memory system semantics to accelerate irregular applications
Guowei Zhang
Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, December 2020
[Thesis]
Leveraging Caches to Accelerate Hash Tables and Memoization
Guowei Zhang and Daniel Sanchez
In Proceedings of the 52th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-52), October 2019
[Paper]
Leveraging Hardware Caches for Memoization
Guowei Zhang and Daniel Sanchez
In IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2017
[Paper]
Exploiting Semantic Commutativity in Hardware Speculation
Guowei Zhang, Virginia Chiu, and Daniel Sanchez
In Proceedings of the 49th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-49), October 2016
IEEE Micro’s Top Picks 2016 Honorable Mention
[Paper]
Architectural Support to Exploit Commutativity in Shared-Memory Systems
Guowei Zhang
Master Thesis, MIT, June 2016
William Martin Thesis Award for outstanding Master’s thesis in computer science at MIT
[Thesis]
Exploiting Commutativity to Reduce the Cost of Updates to Shared Data in Cache-Coherent Systems
Guowei Zhang, Webb Horn, and Daniel Sanchez
In Proceedings of the 48th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-48), December 2015
Best Paper Award
[Paper]
Stochastic analysis of Bubble Razor
Guowei Zhang and Peter A. Beerel
In Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE-2014), March 2014
[Paper]