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Caroline Trippel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research primarily focuses on high assurance computer architectures, emphasizing correctness, security, and reliability as core design goals. Before joining Stanford, she served as a Research Scientist at Facebook's FAIR SysML group. Trippel’s work leverages formal methods, particularly automated reasoning, to design and verify hardware systems. She has significantly contributed to the RISC-V ISA, particularly in developing a memory consistency model and creating formal analysis methods for microarchitecture. Her research has been recognized with several honors, including multiple IEEE Top Picks distinctions, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award. She actively seeks motivated graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to join her lab and is involved in several academic courses, including Digital Systems Architecture and Formal Methods for Computer Systems.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Teaching and conducting research in computer science and electrical engineering.
Facebook FAIR SysML group • Menlo Park, CA
Conducted research in systems machine learning.
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