MoCA Lab
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" - Alan Kay
MoCA (Merced Computer Architecture) is a research lab of CSE department at UC Merced led by Dr. Hyeran Jeon. Our mission is to design energy-efficient, reliable and secure computer architectures and systems. The scope is not limited to micro-architecture level because performance and energy efficiency can be achieved from the smarter interaction between software and hardware. As phasing into the domain-specific computing era, we are also exploring various emerging workloads (e.g., machine learning applications) to better support these new types of workloads in both software and hardware levels. Overall, the research motto of MoCA is greatly linked with the above quote of Alan Kay. MoCA is associated with HPCSA.
PhD Students
Research interest:
Multi-GPU Architecture
MS from HPC @ University of Edinburgh
Summer intern @ Alibaba Group
Master Students
Dhawal Modi (Spring 2024 ~)
Xinwei Zhou (Spring 2024 ~)
Undergraduate Students
Research interest:
Power-efficient Autonomous Robots
CSE Undergrad @ UC Merced
UROC Scholar
Paul Stratton (Spring 2024 ~)
Visiting Scholars
Umer Shahid UET Lahore/10xEngineers (Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
Collaborators
Ryan Zelek NVIDIA
Bilar Zafar 10xEngineers
Lunch gatherings in Fall 2023
Lunch gatherings in Fall 2023
Welcome Party in Fall 2021
Alumni
Graduate Students
Hoa Nguyen first appointment @ MathWorks
Nigel Bernard first appointment @ Intuit
Shivam Tyagi first appointment @ Amazon
Danny Santoso first appointment @ SuperMicro
Deeksha Prakash Kankalale first appointment @ Samsung
Priyanka Subramanyam first appointment @ Lam Research
Prashanth Iyengar first appointment @ IGATE Global Solutions
Chethan Keshava first appointment @ Intel
Aajna Karki first appointment @ Western Digital
Spoorthi Mysore Shivakumar first appointment @ Microsemi Corporation
Meera Ramesh first appointment @ NVIDIA
Bhushan Muthiyan first appointment @ Wave Computing
Sindhuja Elango first appointment @ Synopsys
Shilpa Srinivasan first appointment @ Intel
Swetha Ravi first appointment @ Wave Computing
Undergrad Students
Yash Sharma (Fall 2021)
Yingshi Liu (Summer 2021)
Aman Kaur (Summer 2021)
Aishwaria Rangasamy (REU Summer Intern 2022)
Xavier Ybarra (REU Summer Intern 2022)
Kevin Espinoza (Spring 2023)
K-12 Students
Jun Choe (Carlmont High, Summer 2023)