Babak is the founding director of the EcoCloud research center and leads PARSA at EPFL. He has made numerous contributions to computer system design and evaluation. His recent work on workload-optimized server processors lays the foundation for Cavium ThunderX. He is a recipient of a number of distinctions including a Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a fellow of ACM and IEEE.
What's Hot? Post-Moore Datacenter Architecture, HotInfra 2023.
Integration, Specialization and Approximation: the "ISA" of Post-Moore Servers, HPCA Keynote, 2022.
Post-Moore AI Infrastructure, Facebook SysML Talk, 2021.
Post-Moore Server Architecture, ICS Keynote, 2020 (Video on YouTube!).
Silicon Heterogeneity in the Cloud, DATE, 2019.
Server Architecture for the Post-Moore Era, HotDC Keynote, 2017.
The Clouds Have Taken Over, But Algorithms are Here to Save the Day, ALGOCLOUD Keynote, 2017.
Public Clouds will Subsume (Most of) HPC, HPC Summit, 2017.
Memory-Centric Server Architecture, Talks at Columbia, Edinburgh, HKUST and Georgia Tech, 2016.
