ECE Alum Aamer Jaleel (Ph.D. ’06) Elevated to IEEE Fellow

ECE Alum Aamer Jaleel has been elevated to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2025. His citation reads for contributions to High-Performance Cache Design and Memory-Aware Scheduling. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from ECE in 2000 and then continued with ECE to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Currently, Jaleel is a Principal Research Scientist in the Architecture Research Group (ARG) at NVIDIA Research in Massachusetts. His research focuses on memory systems, heterogeneous architectures, workload scheduling, performance modeling, workload characterizations, and security. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Jaleel was a Principal Engineer in the Versatile Systems and Simulation Advanced Development (VSSAD) group at Intel.

Jaleel’s work has been recognized for significantly advancing memory system design in commercial systems. The results of his cache research have been implemented in modern multi-core processors, becoming the standard by which newer cache management proposals are compared.

Education has remained a priority for him, and he has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Harvard University. He received a Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from Harvard.

Over twenty patents have been issued to Jaleel, with several other pending. He has received multiple IEEE Top Picks awards, memorable paper recognition at 2023 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-50), and multiple Best Paper nominations. He is a Hall of Fame member of ISCA, the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), and the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). He has served on the organizing committees of several major conferences, including the position of Co-Chair for the International Symposium of Microarchitecture (MICRO) and was awarded the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for contributions to the Pin x86 Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Framework.

As an ECE student, Jaleel was an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow and won the 2001 George Corcoran Award for Excellence in Teaching.

“I am deeply honored to have been elevated to IEEE Fellow. This achievement would not have been possible without the support of my collaborators, mentors, family, and the education I received at the University of Maryland”, says Jaleel. “I cherish many memories from University of Maryland where I dedicated nearly a decade pursuing my Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees. I am very grateful to my advisor, Dr. Bruce Jacob, and Dr. Donald Yeung, who mentored me throughout my academic journey.”

Published December 17, 2024