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Sagar Karandikar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Jean Hing Wong Foundation Faculty Fellow and focuses his research on hardware/software co-design for hyperscale cloud data centers, power-critical, and rapidly evolving applications in AI/ML and scalable data processing. His group's expertise encompasses hardware accelerator design, server system-on-chip design, and full-stack system optimization methodologies that support agile, open-source, and AI/ML-infused hardware development. He is part of the SpeciaLIzed Computing Ecosystems (SLICE) Lab at Berkeley. Karandikar's work has earned several recognitions, including the ISCA@50 25-year Retrospective selection, IEEE Micro Top Picks selection, and notable awards such as the MICRO Distinguished Artifact Award. He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed to commercially available chips. In 2025, he received the ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award for his advancements in agile hardware/software co-design tools for hyperscalar architectures. Additionally, he has received the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding graduate research at UC Berkeley and the UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.
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