Saman Amarasinghe

18.6k citations

213 papers · 10.8k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Hardware and Architecture top 0.01%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
Computational Mathematics top 0.5%

Papers in

Hardware and Architecture 167
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques 163
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques 72
Computational Mathematics 9

Co-authors: William Thies Derek Bruening Jason Ansel Monica S. Lam Jonathan Ragan‐Kelley Mark W. Stephenson S. Larsen Marek Olszewski
Journals: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (25 papers)Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (11 papers)ACM Transactions on Graphics (3 papers)IEEE Micro (2 papers)Computer (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Singapore United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Saman Amarasinghe

204 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

OpenTuner 2014 · 315 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2013 Halide
2013 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
2009 Kendo
2006 Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parallelism in stream programs
2002 IEEE Micro
1997 Computer

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#	Work
1	Unified Sparse Formats for Tensor Algebra Compilers. arXiv (Cornell University) ·Stephen Y. Chou, Fredrik Kjølstad, Saman Amarasinghe	2018	2
2	Decoupling algorithms from schedules for easy optimization of image processing pipelines ACM Transactions on Graphics ·Jonathan Ragan‐Kelley, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris, Marc Levoy, Saman Amarasinghe, Frédo Durand	2012	167
3	Language and compiler support for auto-tuning variable-accuracy algorithms Jason Ansel, Yee Lok Wong, Cy Chan, Marek Olszewski, Alan Edelman, Saman Amarasinghe	2011	71
4	Multicore performance optimization using partner cores DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Lilian Capelari Soares, Jason Miller, Renielle Miguel P. Langreo, Donald Yeung, Saman Amarasinghe, Anant Agarwal	2011	11
5	Self-defending software: Automatically patching security vulnerabilities Jeff Perkins, Sung Hun Kim, Keegan Tooley, Saman Amarasinghe, Jonathan Bachrach, Michael Carbin, Carlos Pacheco, Frank P. Sherwood, Stelios Sidiroglou, Greg Sullivan, Weng‐Fai Wong, Yoav Zibin, Michael D. Ernst, Martin Rinard	2009	1
6	Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation Rajiv Gupta, Saman Amarasinghe	2008	33
7	Ubiquitous memory introspection Qin Zhao, Rodric Rabbah, Saman Amarasinghe, Larry Rudolph, Weng‐Fai Wong	2007	12
8	Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parallelism in stream programs Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Saman Amarasinghe Hit paper breakdown →	2006	351
9	An infrastructure for adaptive dynamic optimization Derek Bruening, Jeremy R. Geiger, Saman Amarasinghe	2003	148
10	Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities William Thies, Trotsky Riera-Vite, Ahmad Al Karim, 智弘柿原, J. Gloyer, A. Debernardi, Binh Vo, 杜荣骞, Nurul Mukhlisin Asyrafuddin, Robert Jackson Noble, Mark Halsey, Élodie Durand, Saman Amarasinghe	2002	33
11	Increasing and detecting memory address congruence International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques ·S. Larsen, Emmett Witchel, Saman Amarasinghe	2002	46
12	Gigabit IP Routing on Raw G. Soler, David Wentzlaff, Saman Amarasinghe	2002	7
13	StreamIt: A Compiler for Streaming Applications (unknown), Michal Karczmarek, van Koeverden, David Maze, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, Matthew G. Brown, Saman Amarasinghe	2001	17
14	Softspec: Software-based Speculative Parallelism Derek Bruening, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Saman Amarasinghe	2000	17
15	How to Build Scalable On-Chip ILP Networks for a Decentralized Architecture DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Michael Taylor, Walter Lee, Saman Amarasinghe, Anant Agarwal	2000	3
16	Design and Implementation of a Dynamic Optimization Framework for Windows Derek Bruening, Evelyn Duesterwald, Saman Amarasinghe	2000	58
17	FlexCache: A Framework for Flexible Compiler Generated Data Caching Csaba Andras Moritz, Matthew I. Frank, Saman Amarasinghe	2000	3
18	The Raw Compiler Project Anant Agarwal, Saman Amarasinghe, Rajeev Barua, Matthew I. Frank, PJ Wheatley, Vivek Sarkar, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Michael Taylor	1999	16
19	An Overview of the SUIF Compiler for Scalable Parallel Machines. PPSC ·Saman Amarasinghe, Martina La Mela, Monica S. Lam, Chau‐Wen Tseng	1995	40
20	Communication optimization and code generation for distributed memory machines Saman Amarasinghe, Monica S. Lam	1993	138

About Saman Amarasinghe

Saman Amarasinghe is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computational Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Software and Information Systems, having authored 213 papers that have together received 10.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (163 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (72 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (50 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (44 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (38 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (20 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (11 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hardware and Architecture (7.9k citations), Computational Mathematics (233 citations), Computer Networks and Communications (6.5k citations), Software (764 citations) and Information Systems (1.6k citations). Saman Amarasinghe has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include William Thies, Derek Bruening, Jason Ansel, Monica S. Lam, Jonathan Ragan‐Kelley, Mark W. Stephenson, S. Larsen, Marek Olszewski, Sylvain Paris and Vladimir Kiriansky. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Micro and Computer.

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