Courtney Golden
Welcome! I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), working under the direction of Professor Daniel Sanchez and Professor Joel Emer. My research centers on computer architecture, where I work at the intersection of hardware and software to improve performance and energy efficiency. I am currently interested in accelerating sparse and irregular applications in machine learning and scientific computing.
I received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, where I was advised by Professor Christopher Batten. At MIT, I am fortunate to be a Jacobs Presidential Fellowship recipient and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
Publications
- Quartz: A Reconfigurable, Distributed-Memory Accelerator for Sparse Applications. 2025 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Seoul, South Korea, 2025.
- Characterizing and Optimizing Realistic Workloads on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Device. 2025 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Seoul, South Korea, 2025.
- Azul: An Accelerator for Sparse Iterative Solvers Leveraging Distributed On-Chip Memory. 2024 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Austin, TX, 2024.
- Supporting a Virtual Vector Instruction Set on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Accelerator. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 29–32, Jan.–June 2024.
- Accelerating Seed Location Filtering in DNA Read Mapping Using a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Architecture. arXiv, 2024.
- EVE: Ephemeral Vector Engines. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2023.
- big.VLITTLE: On-Demand Data-Parallel Acceleration for Mobile Systems on Chip. 2022 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Chicago, IL, USA, 2022.
Industry Experience
Service
- 2024-present Undergraduate Research Supervisor — MIT CSAIL.
- 2024 Community Service Director — MIT Graduate Women in EECS.