I am a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. I do research in the area of Computer Architecture -- for more information, see my research interests and publications page.

I direct the High Performance Processor Architecture and Compilation lab.

• Biographical and Contact Information
• Research Interests and Publications
• And for something a little different, my Astrophotography Page

I work with the following top-notch graduate students at UCSD:

• Hosein Yavarzadeh
• Archit Agarwal
• Luyi Li
• Janet Vorobyeva
• Nagendra Jamadagni

I have also advised these students, who have each graduated:
• Dr. Kazem Taram
• Dr. Craig Disselkoen
• Dr. Ashish Venkat
• Dr. Andreas Prodromou
• Dr. Manish Arora
• Dr. Alex Breslow (AMD Research)
• Dr. Hung-Wei Tseng (UC Riverside)
• Dr. Md. Kamruzzaman (Google)
• Dr. Vasileios Kontorinis (Google)
• Dr. Leo Porter (UCSD)
• Dr. Matt DeVuyst (Microsoft)
• Dr. Jeff Brown (Google)
• Dr. Rakesh Kumar (UIUC)
• Dr. Weifeng Zhang (Alibaba Group)
• Dr. Eric Tune (Google)
• Dr. Jamison Collins (Intel)
• Dr. John Seng (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
• Dr. Allan Snavely (San Diego Supercomputer Center and UCSD, tragically deceased)
• Minxuan Zhou
• Sam Wasmundt
• Harsha Basavaraj
• Sriskanda Shamasunder (Facebook)
• Nik Strikos (Google)
• Subhra Mazumdar (Oracle)
• Anthony Choi
• Allen Chu
• Subhradyuti Sarkar
• Diego Puppin (University of Pisa student at time)
• Paula Obendorf
• Ramon Matas (UPC student)
• Guillem Sole (UPC student)
I've also had some great postdocs, including Samira Ajorpaz Mirgagher, Houman Homayoun, and Steve Wallace.

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at tullsen (a) cs dot ucsd dot edu