About

Hello! I’m Olivia. I’m a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computer Science working with Professor Ryan Kastner at UC San Diego. My research focuses on using hardware-software co-design to create efficient, fault-tolerant computer architectures for machine learning. My work is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Before coming to UCSD, I received my BS in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where I worked with Professor Yanjing Li on mitigating cache side-channel attacks while maintaining cache performance and Professor Andrew A. Chien on integrating SSD latency predictors into cloud systems via hardware accelerators.

My interests include but are not limited to:

• Computer architecture
• Hardware accelerators
• Hardware-software co-design
• Resilient neural networks
• Hardware security
• Side-channel attacks
• Shakespeare
• Theater
• Movies
• Film adaptations of books
• Medium specificity
• Novels
• Piano
• Classical music
• Opera
• Tennis
• Running
• Tetris
• Traveling
• Taking walks

Talk to me about any of the above, and we will make good conversation!