Shubu Mukherjee

Shubu Mukherjee
Born	Kolkata, India
Known for	Architecture design for soft errors, processor architecture
Title	Shubu Mukherjee
Awards	Maurice Wilkes Award, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Institutions	SiFive, Compaq, Intel, Cavium, and Marvell
Academic advisors	Mark D. Hill

Shubu Mukherjee (born November 10, 1968), also known as Shubhendu S. Mukherjee., is a pioneer in computer architecture design and analysis techniques. 

Education

Mukherjee received his Ph.D degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Mark D. Hill. ^[1]

Career

His first job immediately after graduation was with the Alpha Architecture group in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he worked for ten days before Compaq acquired DEC. ^[2]  Mukherjee moved to Intel when the Alpha Architecture group was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2001. ^[3]

In Intel, in conjunction with Joel Emer, Steven Reinhardt, and others, Mukherjee published one of his well-known papers on architectural vulnerability, ^[4] which shows how to reason about and design for soft errors in semiconductor chips from cosmic radiation and alpha particles. Subsequently, Mukherjee’s work on soft errors led to Mukherjee’s book on the same topic titled "Architecture Design for Soft Errors." ^[5]

Mukherjee has worked on most aspects of computer chip design, including as an alpha architect for on-chip networks and coherence protocols, ^[6] lead architect for ARM-based processor cores used in OCTEON 9x family of processors, reliability architect, and performance architect. ^[7]  Mukherjee has over 50 publications and 100 patents in the field of computer architecture. ^[8]

He has served as Vice President of Architecture in SiFive, Inc. and in the RISC-V Technical Steering Committee. ^[9]

Awards and honors

Mukherjee was the 2009 recipient of the Maurice Wilkes award, ^[10] an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) award for pioneering contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. He received the 2022 ACM SIGMICRO MICRO Test of Time Award. ^[11]

He is an ACM Fellow ^[12] and IEEE Fellow. ^[13]

References

1. "Home Page of Prof. Mark D. Hill". pages.cs.wisc.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
2. "Compaq to buy DEC - Jan. 26, 1998". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
3. "Compaq to swap Alpha for Intel". Computerworld. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
4. Mukherjee, S.S.; Weaver, C.; Emer, J.; Reinhardt, S.K.; Austin, T. (2003). "A systematic methodology to compute the architectural vulnerability factors for a high-performance microprocessor". 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference. Proceedings (Cat. No.03CH37449). IEEE Comput. Soc. pp. 29–40. doi:10.1109/MICRO.2003.1253181. ISBN   978-0-7695-2043-8.
5. Mukherjee, Shubu (29 August 2011). Architecture Design for Soft Errors. Elsevier Science. ISBN   9780080558325.
6. Mukherjee, S.S.; Bannon, P.; Lang, S.; Spink, A.; Webb, D. (2001). "The Alpha 21364 network architecture". HOT 9 Interconnects. Symposium on High Performance Interconnects. IEEE Comput. Soc. pp. 113–117. doi:10.1109/HIS.2001.946702. ISBN   978-0-7695-1357-7.
7. Emer, Joel; Ahuja, Pritpal; Borch, Eric; Klauser, Artur; Luk, Chi-Keung; Manne, Srilatha; Mukherjee, Shubhendu S.; Patil, Harish; Wallace, Steven; Binkert, Nathan; Espasa, Roger; Juan, Toni (1 February 2002). "Asim: A Performance Model Framework" . Computer. 35 (2): 68–76. Bibcode:2002Compr..35b..68E. doi:10.1109/2.982918. ISSN   0018-9162.
8. "Shubu Mukherjee". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
9. "Technical Steering Committee – RISC-V International" . Retrieved 5 June 2024.
10. "Intel's Mukherjee Wins ACM Award for Advancing Reliability of Computer Architecture Design". www.acm.org. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
11. "ACM SIGMICRO: Test of Time Award". www.sigmicro.org. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
12. "Shubu Mukherjee". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
13. "IEEE Fellows Directory - Member Profile". services27.ieee.org. Retrieved 5 June 2024.