Hiren Patel

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

Hiren Patel is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to the University of Waterloo, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Ptolemy group. He received his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. His research is in the design, analysis, and implementation of computer hardware and software. He leads the Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems Research group, which currently focuses on real-time embedded systems, computer architecture, hardware architectures for machine learning and artificial intelligence, and security.

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Recent Publications

RISC-V Vectorization Coverage for HPC: A TSVC-Based Analysis
Hung-Ming Lai, Pei-Hung Lin, Maya B. Gokhale, Ivy Bo Peng, Hiren Patel, Jenq-Kuen Lee
SC-W , 2025
Optimal Split Point Placement for Predictable GPU Wavefront Splitting
Artem Klashtorny, Mahesh Tripunitara, Hiren Patel
TECS , 2025
ARM SVE Unleashed: Performance and Insights Across HPC Applications on Nvidia Grace
Ruimin Shi, Gabin Schieffer, Maya B. Gokhale, Pei-Hung Lin, Hiren Patel, Ivy Bo Peng
Euro-Par , 2025
Consistency-aware and Predictable Memory Processing for Safety-critical Out-of-order Multicores
Zhuanhao Wu, Hiren Patel
RTAS , 2025
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Research Projects

Predictable Cache Coherence Hardware cache coherence for real-time and mixed-criticality multicores, with analyzable worst-case latency.
Predictable GPUs for Safety-critical Systems GPU micro-architecture and compiler support that make worst-case execution time analyzable.
Predictable Shared Last-level Caches Shared last-level caches for safety-critical multicores that add capacity without inflating worst-case latency.
RISC-V RVV · ARM SVE
Vector Extensions for High-performance Computing How well compilers and HPC applications use scalable vector extensions such as RISC-V RVV and ARM SVE.

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