Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri

I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Carnegie Mellon University. My Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Akshitha Sriraman. My work bridges software systems, system optimization, and computer architecture to enable efficient hyperscale web services while improving user experience across all user demographic groups.
Before starting my Ph.D. at the Carnegie Mellon University, I was a graduate student at Penn State University, where I got my M.Sc. under the supervision of Dr. Aasheesh Kolli with a focus on computer architecture and persistent memories.
I also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Google in summer 2021 and 2022.

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Publications

[ISCA] Thermometer: Profile-guided BTB Replacement for Data Center Applications
Shixin Song, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Akshitha Sriraman, Niranjan K Soundararajan, Sreenivas Subramoney, Daniel A Jiménez, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci.
International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2022.
[DATE] Achieving Crash Consistency by Employing Persistent L1 Cache
Akshay Krishna Ramanathan, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Yi Xiao, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Proceedings of Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, March 2022.
[MICRO] (Almost) Fence-less Persist Ordering
Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Seyed Armin Vakil Ghahani, Aasheesh Kolli.
International Symposium on Microarchitecture, October 2020.
[YArch] Delivering Correct and Fast Persistency Guarantees
Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Aasheesh Kolli.
The First Young Architect Workshop, co-located with HPCA, February 2019.
[arXiv] Making Belady-Inspired Replacement Policies More Effective Using Expected Hit Count
Seyed Armin Vakil Ghahani, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Mohammad Bakhshalipour, Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad.
arXiv preprint, August 2018.
[CAL] Cache Replacement Policy Based on Expected Hit Count
Seyed Armin Vakil Ghahani, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi-Namin, Mohammad Bakhshalipour, Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad.
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, October 2017.
[CRC2] Cache Replacement Policy Based on Expected Hit Count
Seyed Armin Vakil Ghahani, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi-Namin, Mohammad Bakhshalipour, Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad
The 2nd Cache Replacement Championship, co-located with ISCA, June 2017.