CPU Microarchitecture Research Consultant
gmail: sainsworth614
I am currently a Research Consultant working in Computer Architecture, Microarchitectural Security and Microarchitectural Fault Resilience.
I'm also a Visitor at the University of Edinburgh, where I was previously a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Systems and Hardware Security, and where I currently supervise two students: Haocheng Xiao (Microarchitectural Security, with Nigel Topham) and Jackson Woodruff (Heterogeneous Compilation, with Michael O'Boyle).
Formerly, I was a Postdoc (2018-2020), PhD Student(2014-2018) and Undergrad (2011-2014) at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge, where I currently collaborate with Postdocs Hugo Jiang and Minli Liao, and PhD students Mahwish Arif and Peter Zhang (all with Timothy M. Jones). I also supervise the Churchill students in Computer Architecture, Security and Software Engineering, and Economics, Law and Ethics each year.
My research interests currently include architectural and compiler techniques for:
I created the course Security Engineering for UG4/UG5/MSc students at Edinburgh, with Ross Anderson, with videos of the lectures available free to all. This gives students the opportunity to understand the ways real systems are attacked and defended, with a broad-church perspective from psychology and economics all the way down to computer architecture and transistors. Like, share and subscribe below:
I've also been a lecturer for Parallel Architectures and Introduction to Computer Systems.