Regular biography
Babak Falsafi is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His research focuses on advanced multiprocessor architecture, parallelism, and concurrency in software, as well as machine learning systems and datacenter design. He teaches courses such as Advanced Multiprocessor Architecture, Parallelism and Concurrency in Software, and Topics in Machine Learning Systems. Falsafi supervises PhD students and has directed and co-directed multiple theses at EPFL. His work is supported by his profile page and contact information available at https://parsa.epfl.ch/~falsafi.
Scholar-generated biography
Babak Falsafi is a Professor of Computer Science at EPFL, specializing in Computer Architecture, Datacenter Systems, and Post-Moore Servers. His research focuses on optimizing hardware and system-level performance for emerging workloads, including scale-out applications and energy-efficient designs. Falsafi's work explores advanced techniques for cache management, leakage reduction, and simulation acceleration. He has contributed to innovations in distributed caching, speculative execution, and multi-core memory systems. His publications address challenges in modern computing, such as dark silicon, memory hierarchies, and fault tolerance. His research emphasizes scalable solutions for datacenter and server architectures.