PASSAT GROUP @ UIUC
	| Home | Projects | People | Publications | Software/Tools | Press | Wiki | Contact	Passat Group at UIUC is looking at Programmable, Adaptable, and Scalable Systems, Architectures, and Technologies. Specifically, we are interested in robust and low power processors and systems with focus on a) scalability: ability to seamlessly exploit multiple levels of concurrency in workloads, b) adaptability: proactive and reactive adjustment to workload types, application requirements, compute conditions, and objective functions, and c) programmability: cooperative information exchange between hardware and software for productivity and efficiency. Our work spans all layers of the computing stack - circuits, architectures, compilers, systems, and applications. A typical member of the PASSAT group is creative, hardworking, motivated, and ambitious. He/she has strong programming skills, with a background in circuits, CAD, or computer architecture. He/she is open to learning new skills and considers hard problems as particularly interesting. Students who do not fit the above profile are, in general, not good fits. The current flagship project of the PASSAT group is computing with stochastic processors (or processors that do not always compute correctly by design). Please refer to the project pages for details. Passat Group is led by Dr Rakesh Kumar. We are always looking for motivated graduate/undergraduate students to join our group. If you are a UIUC graduate/undergraduate student looking for an advisor or if you are someone interested in applying to UIUC for graduate studies, email rakeshk@illinois.edu if you want to do research in computer architecture, CAD/architecture interactions, low power design, or reliability and fault tolerance. See our research/publications pages for a sampling of our research. Please attach your CV as well.