Statement for Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

My experience as a graduate student spans several areas in computer architecture and VLSI, including circuit analysis, physical design, logic design, verification, processor microarchitecture, and application studies. My dissertation research focuses on the design of the TRIPS architecture and its polymorphous capabilities. In the TRIPS chip implementation project, I led the microarchitecture specification, hardware verification, and physical design, and through this experience developed an extensive set of skills spanning a wide spectrum of computer system design. In this statement, I summarize the contributions of my dissertation research, describe my role in the implementation of the TRIPS chip, and outline my plans for future research.