Charles (Chase) Block
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 with several fantastic groups. These include firmware development for Amazon’s Scout, PostgreSQL at Microsoft Azure, CPU verification at Intel, and CPU microarchitecture at Apple. When I was in undergrad, I was heavily involved with the University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team (a part of Longhorn Racing) and did bioelectronics research with UT Austin’s Lu Group.
You can see my full CV here.
news
| May 07, 2025 | Our work on developing cost models for emerging hardware using transfer learning, called COGNATE (led by Chamika Sudusinghe) has been accepted to ICML 2025! |
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| 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! |