Onur Mutlu

Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He previously held the William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University. His  research interests are in computer architecture, computing systems, hardware security, memory & storage systems, and bioinformatics, with a major focus on designing fundamentally energy-efficient, high-performance, and robust computing systems. Many techniques he, with his group and collaborators, has invented over the years have largely influenced industry and have been employed in commercial microprocessors and memory & storage systems used by billions of people. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin and BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He started the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), and held product, research and visiting positions at Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, VMware, Google, and Stanford University. He received various honors for his impactful research, including the 2024 IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing (for the seminal RowHammer work), 2021 IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture Conference Test of Time Award (for the pioneering Runahead Execution work), 2022 Persistent Impact Prize of the Non-Volatile Memory Systems Workshop, 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, 2020 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, 2019 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award and dozens of best paper or “Top Pick” paper recognitions at various leading computer systems, architecture, and security venues. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and an elected member of the Academy of Europe. He enjoys teaching, mentoring, and enabling & democratizing access to high-quality research and education. He has supervised 23 PhD graduates, many of whom received major dissertation awards, 14 postdoctoral trainees, and more than 60 Master’s and Bachelor’s students. His computer architecture and digital logic design course lectures and materials are freely available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/OnurMutluLectures & https://www.youtube.com/@CMUCompArch), and his research group (https://safari.ethz.ch/) makes a wide variety of software and hardware artifacts freely available online (https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI). For more information, please see his webpage at https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/.