Saugata Ghose
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Education
- Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2014
- M.S., Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2014
- B.S., Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2007
- B.S., Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2007
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, January 2021 - present
- Affiliate Faculty, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2022 - present
- Affiliate Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, June 2021 - present
- Special Faculty Systems Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2016 - December 2020
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2014 - August 2016
Graduate Research Opportunities
I am looking for motivated graduate students who are interested in joining me at Illinois, so if that sounds like you, please contact me!
Research Interests
- Data-centric computer architectures and systems
- Processing-in-memory (PIM)
- Memory and storage systems
- Computing platforms for smart cities, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and genomics
Research Areas
Recent Courses Taught
- CS 199 233 - Supplementary Proj for CS 233
- CS 233 - Computer Architecture
- CS 233 - Computer Architecture Honors
- CS 433 (CSE 422) - Computer System Organization
- CS 498 ME1 (CS 498 ME2, CS 598 SG) - Arch. for Mobile & Edge Comp.
- CS 534 - Adv Topics in Comp Arch
- ECE 590 CAP (CS 591 CAP) - Arch./Compilers/Parallel Comp.
News Notes
- 3/10/2026
CS professor Saugata Ghose was inducted into the ISCA Hall of Fame for reaching the eight-paper threshold.
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture noted these papers: Improving memory scheduling via processor-side load criticality information (2013), FLIN: Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives (2018), CROW: a low-cost substrate for improving DRAM performance, energy efficiency, and reliability (2019), CoNDA: efficient cache coherence support for near-data accelerators (2019), The Virtual Block Interface: A Flexible Alternative to the Conventional Virtual Memory Framework (2020), CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations (2021), SeGraM: a universal hardware accelerator for genomic sequence-to-graph and sequence-to-sequence mapping (2022), and ANVIL: An In-Storage Accelerator for Name-Value Data Stores (2025).
- 2/10/2025
CS professor Saugata Ghose was inducted into the HPCA Hall of Fame. The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture presents the award to researchers who have presented eight or more papers in the symposium.