David Kaeli
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Office
- 333 Dana Research Center
- 617.373.5413
Lab
- 140 The Fenway
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
- 2025 Faculty Research Team Award – iSUPER Impact Engine
- 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
Jan 31, 2025
2024 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. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Jan 30, 2025
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Jan 28, 2025
First Cohort of NSF NRT Student Trainees Share Value of Interdisciplinary Research
The first cohort of trainees of the NSF NRT Platforms for Exchange and Allocation of Resources grant share the value of the program’s interdisciplinary research, stipends, curriculum, seminars, and faculty mentorship. Applications are now open to be a trainee for the fall 2025 semester.
Nov 19, 2024
ECE Student Nominated for Churchill Scholarship
Maya De Los Santos, E’25, electrical and computer engineering, was nominated for the Churchill Scholarship, which provides funding to American students for a year of master’s study at Churchill College, which is part of the University of Cambridge.
Nov 15, 2024
Northeastern Nominates 6 COE Students for Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Alex Bender, E’20, MS’20, Matthew Coughlin, E’25, Maya De Los Santos, E’25, Jose Meza Llamosas, E’25, Dominic Pizzarella, E’25, and Daniel Sneyers Pont, E’21, MS’21, were six of eight nominated by Northeastern for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Nov 14, 2024
ECE Student Nominated for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships
Maya De Los Santos, E’25, electrical and computer engineering, was nominated for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships by Northeastern University.
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.