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
Mujahid Al Rafi (Fall 2021-)
Research interest:
Secure DNN Computing
BS from CSE @ BUET
Undergrad Students
Kevin Espinoza (Independent Research in Spring 2023)
Associated Researchers
Ryan Zelek (NVIDIA)
Welcome Party in Fall 2021
Alumni
Master Graduates
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 Independent Research
Yash Sharma (Fall 2021)
Yingshi Liu (Summer 2021)
Aman Kaur (Summer 2021)
Aishwaria Rangasamy (REU Summer Intern 2022)
Xavier Ybarra (REU Summer Intern 2022)