Martha Mercaldi Kim

I have just completed my Ph.D. and will be joining the Computer Science department at Columbia University in January, 2009!

mercaldi at cs dot washington dot edu

I am working, with my advisor Mark Oskin and Todd Austin, on an architecture to enable modular assembly of custom chip designs.

Polymorphic On-Chip Networks, M. Mercaldi Kim, J. D. Davis, M. Oskin, T. Austin. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-35), June 2008. (to appear)
Architectural Implications of Brick and Mortar Silicon Manufacturing, M. Mercaldi Kim, M. Mehrara, M. Oskin, T. Austin. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-34), June 2007.

I am a member of the WaveScalar research team, focused on scheduling and placement of instructions on the execution tiles.

The WaveScalar Architecture , S. Swanson, M. Mercaldi, A. Petersen, A. Putnam, A. Schwerin, K. Michelson, M. Oskin, S. Eggers. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS). Volume 25 Issue 2. May 2007.

Instruction Scheduling for Tiled Dataflow Architectures, M. Mercaldi, S. Swanson, A. Petersen, A. Putnam, A. Schwerin, M. Oskin, S. Eggers, International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-XII), October 2006.
Controlling Control Overhead in Distributed Dataflow Architectures, A. Petersen, S. Swanson, M. Mercaldi, A. Putnam, A. Schwerin, M. Oskin, S. Eggers, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-15), September 2006.
Modeling Instruction Placement on a Spatial Architecture, M. Mercaldi, S. Swanson, A. Petersen, A. Putnam, A. Schwerin, M. Oskin, S. Eggers, ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA-18) , July 2006.
Area-Performance Trade-offs in Tiled Dataflow Architectures, S. Swanson, A. Putnam, M. Mercaldi, K. Michelson, A. Petersen, A. Schwerin, M. Oskin, S. Eggers, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-33), June 2006.

While an intern at IBM from 2001-2002, I contributed to the high-speed XML parsing and validation engine known as XML Screamer.

XML Screamer: An Integrated Approach to High Performance XML Parsing, Validation and Deserialization M. Kostoulas, M. Kostoulas, M. Matsa, N. Mendelsohn, E. Perkins, A. Heifets, M. Mercaldi. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-15). May 2006. Nominated for Best Paper.

In the past I have been a TA for the following courses

I am very grateful for the support of the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship (2005-2007) and the Google Anita Borg Scholarship (2007).

I am a USHPA certified hang glider pilot (with a well documented first solo flight).
I love all French Bulldogs.