Education

University of Washington

PhD, Computer Science and Engineering (in progress)

2009–present

Advisors: Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman

Harvey Mudd College

Bachelor of Science with High Distinction, Computer Science

2005–2009

Advisor: Geoff Kuenning

Conference Publications

Architecture Support for Disciplined Approximate Programming. H. Esmaeilzadeh, A. Sampson, L. Ceze, and D. Burger. In ASPLOS 2012.

EnerJ: Approximate Data Types for Safe and General Low-Power Computation. A. Sampson, W. Dietl, E. Fortuna, D. Gnanapragasam, L. Ceze, and D. Grossman. In PLDI 2011.

Composable Specifications for Structured Shared-Memory Communication. B. Wood, A. Sampson, L. Ceze, and D. Grossman. In OOPSLA 2010.

On-line Distributed Traffic Grooming. R. J. Crouser, B. Rice, A. Sampson, and R. Libeskind-Hadas. In ICC 2008.

Workshop Publications

Addressing Dark Silicon Challenges with Disciplined Approximate Computing. H. Esmaeilzadeh, A. Sampson, M. Ringenburg, D. Grossman, L. Ceze and D. Burger. In DaSi 2012 (co-located with ISCA).

Towards Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Computing. H. Esmaeilzadeh, A. Sampson, L. Ceze and D. Burger. In WEED 2012 (co-located with ISCA).

Greedy Coherence. E. Fortuna, B. Lucia, A. Sampson, B. Wood, and L. Ceze. In HPPC 2011 (co-located with MICRO).

Other Publications

Dense Approximate Storage in Phase-Change Memory. Short position paper by Jacob Nelson, Adrian Sampson, and Luis Ceze. Presented in the Ideas & Perspectives session at ASPLOS 2011.

Research Positions

Research Intern

Qualcomm, Inc. — Bay Area R&D

2010

  • Performance and Energy Understanding Tools for the Web

Graduate Researcher

University of Washington

2009–present

  • Energy-Aware Languages and Architectures (PLDI 2011, ASPLOS 2012)
  • Lightweight Bug Avoidance for Parallel Programs
  • Safe Shared-Memory Multiprocessing with Communication Specifications (OOPSLA 2010)

Undergraduate Researcher

Harvey Mudd College — NSF REU Program

2007

  • Algorithms for Optical Networking (ICC 2008)

Academic Honors

Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship (2012–2013)

University of Washington Hacherl Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science and Engineering (2009)

Hertz Foundation Fellowship Finalist (2009)

Harvey Mudd College (2009):

  • High Distinction
  • Honors in Computer Science
  • Honors in Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
  • Computer Science Class of ’94 Award
  • Computer Science Clinic Award
  • William and Margaret Radley Prize in Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, University of Washington:

Tutor, University of Washington, 2009–present: CSE 303 (Software Development), 311 (Foundations of Computing), 322 (Formal Models), 331 (Software Engineering), 351 (The Hardware/Software Interface)

Service

University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering:

  • Prospective Student Committee Co-Chair, 2011; Member, 2010–present
  • Student Survey Coordinator, 2011
  • “Mossy Bits” Creative Arts Journal Editor, 2010–present
  • New Graduate Student Mentor, 2010–present

Paper Reviews: ASPLOS 2011, POPL 2012, PPoPP 2012, PLDI 2012

Adrian Sampson — asampson@cs.washington.edu