Yiying Zhang Earns First Ever Google Academic Research Award

The inaugural cohort of Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) recipients – a list of 95 globally selected proposals – includes three from the University of California San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

CNS Faculty member Yiying Zhang is included in this list.

Zhang’s proposal, Learned Tiered Memory System: Optimizing Tiered Memory Performance with ML-Based Memory Access Pattern Prediction, was recognized in a category focused on systems and infrastructure problems. The project dovetails neatly with the work she leads in WukLab.

Zhang’s primary research interests include building systems for ML/AI and using ML/AI to solve systems problems. Zhang is also a member of the Systems & Software team for PRISM, the $50.5 million UC San Diego-led Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory center. Her team is working on an ambitious project to make computing orders of magnitude faster and more efficient.

Google Academic Research Awards foster an ecosystem that generates impactful research with real-world applications. In each cycle, the GARA program outlines specific research challenges and opportunities within technology and computing that Google seeks to address through funding and collaborations with academic institutions and researchers.