Charles (Chase) Block

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I am a PhD candidate working with the i-acoma group in the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My interests are mainly in computer architecture and hardware/software systems development, although I have worked on a variety of other projects in the past. Previously, I studied Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

In the past, I have worked on a range of topics and with several groups, including firmware development for Amazon’s Scout, databases at Microsoft Azure, CPU verification with Intel’s Advanced Architecture Development Group, automotive electronics with the University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team (a part of Longhorn Racing), and bioelectronics with UT Austin’s Lu Group.

You can see my full CV here.

news

Jun 28, 2024 Our work, titled Taming the Acceleration Tax: Enabling New Opportunities for Fine-Grained, Disaggregated Accelerator-Level Parallelism was just accepted to PACT’24!
Jun 14, 2024 Our work titled Distributed-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Sparse Matrix and Sparse Tall-and-Skinny Matrix Multiplication, led by Isuru Ranawaka, has been accepted to SC’24!
May 01, 2024 The Lu Group at UT Austin just published a work on stretchable pressure sensors in Matter! You can find it here.
Apr 04, 2024 I’m excited to be presenting our work on communication in distributed sparse matrix multiplication, called Two-Face, at ASPLOS in San Diego this month! See you there!

selected publications

  1. Two-Face: Combining Collective and One-Sided Communication for Efficient Distributed SpMM
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2024