Shubu Mukherjee

Shubu Mukherjee

Portrait of Shubu Mukherjee, smiling
Born	Kolkata, India
Nationality	American
Known for	architecture design for soft errors, processor architecture
Awards	Maurice Wilkes award, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Institutions	currently SiFive, Inc.; formerly Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Intel, Cavium, and Marvell
Doctoral advisor	Mark D. Hill

Shubu Mukherjee (born November 10, 1968) is a pioneer in computer architecture design and analysis techniques. He is also known as Shubhendu S. Mukherjee. He is currently the Vice President of Architecture in SiFive, Inc. and serves in the RISC-V Technical Steering Committee.[1]

Mukherjee was the 2009 recipient of the Maurice Wilkes award,[2] an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) award for pioneering contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. He received the 2022 ACM SIGMICRO MICRO Test of Time Award,[3] which recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture, each of whom have had significant impact in the field. He is also a Fellow of ACM[4] and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[5]

Mukherjee received his Ph.D degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Mark D. Hill.[6] His first job immediately after graduation was with the Alpha Architecture group in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he worked for ten days before Compaq acquired DEC.[7] Mukherjee moved to Intel when the Alpha Architecture group was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2001.[8]

In Intel, in conjunction with Joel Emer, Steven Reinhardt, and others, Mukherjee published one of his well-known papers on architectural vulnerability,[9] which shows how to reason about and design for soft errors in semiconductor chips from cosmic radiation and alpha particles. Subsequently, Mukherjee’s work on soft errors led to Mukherjee’s book on the same topic titled “Architecture Design for Soft Errors."[10]

Mukherjee has worked on most aspects of computer chip design, including as an Alpha architect for on-chip networks and coherence protocols,[11] lead architect for ARM-based processor cores used in OCTEON 9x family of processors, reliability architect, and performance architect.[12] Mukherjee has over 50 publications and 100 patents in the field of computer architecture.[13]

References

1. "Technical Steering Committee – RISC-V International". Retrieved 2024-06-05.
2. "Intel's Mukherjee Wins ACM Award for Advancing Reliability of Computer Architecture Design". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
3. "ACM SIGMICRO: Test of Time Award". www.sigmicro.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
4. "Shubu Mukherjee". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
5. "IEEE Fellows Directory - Member Profile". services27.ieee.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
6. "Home Page of Prof. Mark D. Hill". pages.cs.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
7. "Compaq to buy DEC - Jan. 26, 1998". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
8. "Compaq to swap Alpha for Intel". Computerworld. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
9. Mukherjee, S.S.; Weaver, C.; Emer, J.; Reinhardt, S.K.; Austin, T. (2003). "A systematic methodology to compute the architectural vulnerability factors for a high-performance microprocessor". 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference. Proceedings (Cat. No.03CH37449). IEEE Comput. Soc. pp. 29–40. doi:10.1109/MICRO.2003.1253181. ISBN 978-0-7695-2043-8.
10. Mukherjee, Shubu (August 29, 2011). Architecture Design for Soft Errors. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9780080558325.
11. Mukherjee, S.S.; Bannon, P.; Lang, S.; Spink, A.; Webb, D. (2001). "The Alpha 21364 network architecture". HOT 9 Interconnects. Symposium on High Performance Interconnects. IEEE Comput. Soc. pp. 113–117. doi:10.1109/HIS.2001.946702. ISBN 978-0-7695-1357-7.
12. Emer, Joel; Ahuja, Pritpal; Borch, Eric; Klauser, Artur; Luk, Chi-Keung; Manne, Srilatha; Mukherjee, Shubhendu S.; Patil, Harish; Wallace, Steven; Binkert, Nathan; Espasa, Roger; Juan, Toni (2002-02-01). "Asim: A Performance Model Framework". Computer. 35 (2): 68–76. doi:10.1109/2.982918. ISSN 0018-9162.
13. "Shubu Mukherjee". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-06-05.