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Babak Falsafi is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences. He founded EcoCloud, an industrial and academic consortium focused on scalable and sustainable information technology. His contributions span computer system design, multiprocessor architecture evaluation, and cloud-native server architecture. Notably, he prototyped Sun Microsystems’ snoop filters that are used in multi-socket x86 servers and contributed to IBM's BlueGene supercomputers. He has worked on performance evaluation methodologies employed by companies like AMD and Google. Falsafi's research addresses critical challenges in server design in a post-Moore context, especially with the growing demand for large-scale cloud services. He has received several accolades, including the NSF CAREER award and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and is a fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.
EPFL • Lausanne
Teaching and conducting research in computer architecture and related fields.
Standard requirements for Engineering and Basic Science Master's programs. Architecture requires an additional portfolio.