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Karu Sankaralingam is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an entrepreneur and inventor who leads the Vertical Research Group. His extensive work in computer architecture has been recognized by major industry forums, and he has been featured in publications such as IEEE Spectrum and New York Wired. Sankaralingam has published over 100 research papers and graduated 9 PhD students, holding 21 patents and receiving 9 award papers throughout his career. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award in 2018 and the Wisconsin Innovation Award in 2016. He founded the chip startup SimpleMachines in 2017, where he developed chip designs that apply dataflow computing principles. Throughout his career, he has led various chip projects including the Mozart chip and the open-source GPU MIAOW, focusing on dataflow computing, microarchitecture, and compiler design. His research has included pioneering work in constraint-theory based compilation and hybrid dataflow von-Neumann execution models.
University of Wisconsin-Madison • Madison, WI
Teach and lead research in computer architecture and related fields.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences