David Kaeli
COE Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program Director, Data Science
Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering
Affiliated Faculty, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Office
- 333 Dana Research Center
- 617.373.5413
Research Focus
Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization
About
David Kaeli received a BS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He is presently a COE Distinguished Professor on the ECE faculty at Northeastern University, Boston, MA where he directs the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (NUCAR), which is an AMD Strategic Academic Partner. Prior to joining Northeastern in 1993, Kaeli spent 12 years at IBM, the last 7 at T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Dr. Kaeli is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the ACM. In 1996, he received the NSF CAREER Award. He is a member of the NIEHS-supported P42 PROTECT Center, the NSF CHEST IUCRC, and Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence.
Education
- PhD, Rutgers University, 1992.
Honors & Awards
- 2022 Fellow, Association of Computing Machinery
- 2009 Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Distinguished Scientist, Association of Computing Machinery
- Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering
- Distinguished Professor, HSA Foundation
Leadership Positions
- Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
Research Overview
Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization
Computer Architecture Research Laboratory
The Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research (NUCAR) laboratory carries out cutting-edge research in high performance, reliable and secure computing hardware and software systems. Research spans a range of topics, including hardware accelerators, heterogeneous computing, microarchitecture-level security, hardware reliability, and scalable AI/ML computing frameworks. The lab carries out use-inspired research that has been supported by the NSF, NIH, NIEHS, DARPA, ONR and AFRL, as well as many companies including AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Dell/EMC, Samsung, Analog Devices and Qualcomm. The laboratory plays a role in a number of other centers at Northeastern, including CenSSIS, PROTECT, ALERT and CHEST.
Selected Research Projects
- Securing the Future: Scholarship for Service at Northeastern University
- – co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Designing an Improved Information Infrastructure for Better Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
- – co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Acquisition of a Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Cluster to Support Exploration at Scale
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Porting and Accelerating High Performance Computing Applications to the AMD ROCm Runtime Environment
– Principal Investigator, AMD - A Framework of Simultaneous Acceleration and Storage Reduction on Deep Neural Networks Using Structured Matrices
– Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Exploring Analysis of Environment and Health Through Multiple Alternative Clustering
– Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - DARPA HIVE
– Principal Investigator, Defense Advanced Research Agency
Research Centers and Institutes
- Member
NIEHS-supported PROTECT Research Center - Member
Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI - Member
NSF CHEST IUCRC
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- K. Shivdikar, Y. Bao, R. Agrawal, M. Shen, G. Jonatan, E. Mora, A. Ingare, N. Livesay, J. L. Abellán, J. Kim, A. Joshi, and D. Kaeli, “GME: GPU-based Microarchitectural Extensions to Accelerate Homomorphic Encryption,” Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ’23), 2023, 670–684. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613424.3614279
- T. Baruah, Y. Sun, A. Dincer, S. Mojumder, J. Abellan, Y. U., A. Josh, N. Rubin, J. Kim, D. Kaeli, “Griffin: Hardware-Software Support for Efficient Page Migration in Multi-GPU Systems,” Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2020, 596-609.
- F. Previlon, C. Kalra, D. Tiwari, D. Kaeli, “Characterizing and Exploiting Soft Error Vulnerability Phase Behavior in GPU Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2020.
- Z.H. Liang, Y. Fei, D. Kaeli, “Exploiting Bank Conflict based Side-channel Timing Leakage of GPUs,” 16(4), 2019, 1-24.
- Y. Sun, T. Baruah, S. A. Mojumder, S. Dong, X. Gong, S. Treadway, Y. Bao, S. Hance, C. McCardwell, V. Zhao, H. Barclay, A.K. Ziabari, Z. Chen, R. Ubal, J.L. Abellán, J. Kim, A. Joshi, D. Kaeli, MGPUSim: Enabling Multi-GPU Performance Modeling and Optimization, Proceedings of the 46th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA ‘19), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2019, 197-209
Jul 24, 2024
PhD Spotlight: Julian Gutierrez, PhD’24, Computer Engineering
Julian Gutierrez, PhD’24, computer engineering, focused research on the development of a new class of high-performance algorithms used in Global Navigation Satellite Systems. After graduating, he joined as a computer research engineer at the Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch at NASA Langley Research Center.
Jul 09, 2024
$4.8M NSF Renewal CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Grant
Khoury/ECE Associate Professor Wil Robertson, ECE Distinguished Professor David Kaeli, and Affiliated Faculty Guevara Noubir were awarded a $4.8 million NSF renewal CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program grant for “Securing the Future: Scholarship for Service at Northeastern University.”
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Oct 27, 2023
Electrical Engineer’s Path From the Dominican Republic to Northeastern University
Cesar Manuel De Oleo, E’26, electrical engineering, participated in the Undergraduate Program for Leaders In Future Transformation (UPLIFT) program. As a first-year student, he participated in research on parallel computing. He has learned buildup of C programming, algorithms, libraries, and programming in CUDA and help his research.
Aug 07, 2023
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU Pathways) Completes 10-Week Boston Program
MIE Professor Ibrahim Zeid and STEM Executive Director Claire Duggan led a 10-week NSF-funded REU program called “REU Pathways,” which mentors community college students in engineering research.
Jul 24, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Enabling Data Privacy With GPU-Accelerated Encryption
ECE Professor David Kaeli, in collaboration with Ajay Joshi from Boston University, was awarded a $1.2 million NSF grant for “Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing.”
Apr 13, 2023
Northeastern To Have Strong Presence at ACM CHI 2023
Researchers from Khoury College, the College of Engineering, and the College of Arts, Media and Design are presenting their research at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg, Germany, the most prestigious human–computer interaction conference in the world.
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation To Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
Aug 25, 2022
Addressing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
MIE Associate Professor Jacqueline Griffin, ECE Professor David Kaeli, MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun, and affiliate faculty members Stacy Marsella and Casper Harteveld were awarded a $750k NSF grant for “Designing an Improved Information Infrastructure for Better Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains.”
May 23, 2022
Computer Engineering PhD Wins Best Poster at CF22
Computer engineering student Nicolas Agostini, PhD’23, advised by ECE Professor David Kaeli, won the best poster award at the 19th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF22) for his poster on “SODA-OPT an MLIR based flow for co-design and high-level synthesis.”