Megan Wachs

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 827 citations indexed

About

Megan Wachs is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Wachs has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 827 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 3 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Megan Wachs's work include Embedded Systems Design Techniques (9 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (6 papers) and VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques (4 papers). Megan Wachs is often cited by papers focused on Embedded Systems Design Techniques (9 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (6 papers) and VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques (4 papers). Megan Wachs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Portugal. Megan Wachs's co-authors include Mark Horowitz, Stephen Richardson, Omid Azizi, Wajahat Qadeer, Alex Solomatnikov, Rehan Hameed, Christos Kozyrakis, Benjamin C. Lee, Philip Levis and Ofer Shacham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Micro.

In The Last Decade

Megan Wachs

15 papers receiving 792 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips

2010 318 citations Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Wachs United States	12	392	318	295	156	144	17	827
Anju P. Johnson United Kingdom	11	314 0.8×	161 0.5×	294 1.0×	99 0.6×	68 0.5×	27	601
Giuseppe Tagliavini Italy	18	386 1.0×	217 0.7×	503 1.7×	205 1.3×	69 0.5×	53	884
Antonio Pullini Italy	23	711 1.8×	655 2.1×	1.0k 3.4×	227 1.5×	79 0.5×	56	1.6k
Igor Loi Italy	22	645 1.6×	710 2.2×	1.1k 3.8×	204 1.3×	64 0.4×	59	1.6k
Alex Nicolau United States	21	1.2k 3.0×	722 2.3×	628 2.1×	108 0.7×	160 1.1×	96	1.7k
Éric Flamand Italy	13	417 1.1×	330 1.0×	435 1.5×	202 1.3×	27 0.2×	18	872
H. Ekin Sumbul United States	10	184 0.5×	135 0.4×	346 1.2×	88 0.6×	67 0.5×	24	522
Michael Gautschi Switzerland	13	262 0.7×	175 0.6×	441 1.5×	72 0.5×	31 0.2×	24	630
John Granacki United States	9	274 0.7×	217 0.7×	239 0.8×	22 0.1×	133 0.9×	19	539
Taesu Kim South Korea	11	167 0.4×	149 0.5×	326 1.1×	58 0.4×	28 0.2×	33	588

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Wachs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Megan Wachs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Megan Wachs based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Megan Wachs. Megan Wachs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Wachs, Megan, et al.. (2016). Real-time compression of high-bandwidth measurement data of thermographic cameras with high temporal and spatial resolution. 1 indexed citations

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Shacham, Ofer, Amin Firoozshahian, Christos Kozyrakis, et al.. (2015). Smart Memories Polymorphic Chip Multiprocessor.

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Wachs, Megan, et al.. (2012). Removing overhead from high-level interfaces. 783–789.

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Froemke, Robert C., Ioana Carcea, Alison J. Barker, et al.. (2012). Long-term modification of cortical synapses improves sensory perception. Nature Neuroscience. 16(1). 79–88. 158 indexed citations

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Shacham, Ofer, Megan Wachs, Andrew Danowitz, et al.. (2012). Avoiding game over. 623–629. 34 indexed citations

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Hameed, Rehan, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, et al.. (2011). Understanding sources of ineffciency in general-purpose chips. Communications of the ACM. 54(10). 85–93. 24 indexed citations

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Wachs, Megan, et al.. (2011). Bringing up a chip on the cheap. IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 29(6). 57–65. 4 indexed citations

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Shacham, Ofer, Omid Azizi, Megan Wachs, Stephen Richardson, & Mark Horowitz. (2010). Rethinking Digital Design: Why Design Must Change. IEEE Micro. 30(6). 9–24. 59 indexed citations

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Hameed, Rehan, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, et al.. (2010). Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips. 37–47. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hameed, Rehan, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, et al.. (2010). Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 38(3). 37–47. 83 indexed citations

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Solomatnikov, Alex, Amin Firoozshahian, Ofer Shacham, et al.. (2009). Using a configurable processor generator for computer architecture prototyping. 358–369. 9 indexed citations

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Shacham, Ofer, Megan Wachs, Alex Solomatnikov, et al.. (2008). Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems using a relaxed scoreboard. 294–305. 16 indexed citations

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Solomatnikov, Alex, Amin Firoozshahian, Wajahat Qadeer, et al.. (2007). Chip multi-processor generator. Proceedings - ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference. 262–262. 14 indexed citations

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Wachs, Megan, Jung‐Il Choi, Jungwoo Lee, et al.. (2007). Visibility. 73–86. 50 indexed citations

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Choi, Jung‐Il, Jungwoo Lee, Megan Wachs, & Philip Levis. (2007). Opening the sensornet black box. ACM SIGBED Review. 4(3). 13–18. 15 indexed citations

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Lanman, Douglas, et al.. (2006). Spherical Catadioptric Arrays: Construction, Multi-View Geometry, and Calibration. 81–88. 27 indexed citations

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Lanman, Douglas, Megan Wachs, Gabriel Taubin, & Fernando Cukierman. (2006). Reconstructing a 3D Line from a Single Catadioptric Image. 26. 89–96. 15 indexed citations

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