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Mike Sullivan

Mike Sullivan is a senior research scientist in the Architecture Research Group, working out of Austin, TX. His main research interest is the design of efficient, secure, and dependable large-scale computer systems. Specifically, he has studied system-level reliability modeling with cross-layer coordination, strong memory system protection, low-cost pipeline protection, and efficient and reliable application-specific acceleration. He received a PhD in computer architecture from the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Mattan Erez and Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr., and holds previous master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science, computer engineering and mathematics from George Mason University.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Computer Architecture
Resilience and Safety
Main Field of Interest
Computer Architecture
Google Scholar
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Publications

2023

Unity ECC: Unified Memory Protection Against Bit and Chip Errors
Dongwhee Kim, Jaeyoon Lee, Wonyeong Jung, Michael B. Sullivan, Jungrae Kim
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage an…
Implicit Memory Tagging: No-Overhead Memory Safety Using Alias-Free Tagged ECC
Michael B. Sullivan, Mohamed Tarek Ibn Ziad, Aamer Jaleel, Stephen W. Keckler
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)

2022

SEC-BADAEC: An Efficient ECC With No Vacancy for Strong Memory Protection
Yuseok Song, Sangjae Park, Michael B. Sullivan, Jungrae Kim
IEEE Access
Zhuyi: Perception Processing Rate Estimation for Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Siva Hari, Michał Filipiuk, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vasu Singh, Steve Keckler
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
Exploiting Temporal Data Diversity for Detecting Safety-critical Faults in AV Compute Systems
Saurabh Jha, Shengkun Cui, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Zhuyi: Perception Processing Rate Estimation for Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Siva Hari, Michał Filipiuk, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vasu Singh, Steve Keckler
arXiv
Saving PAM4 Bus Energy with SMOREs: Sparse Multi-level Opportunistic Restricted Encodings
Mike O'Connor, Donghyuk Lee, Niladrish Chatterjee, Michael B. Sullivan, Steve Keckler
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
Characterizing and Mitigating Soft Errors in GPU DRAM
Michael B. Sullivan, Nirmal R. Saxena, Mike O'Connor, Donghyuk Lee, Paul Racunas, Saurabh Hukerikar, Timothy Tsai, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Stephen W. Keckler
IEEE Micro (Issue: Top Picks of the 2021 Computer Architecture Conferences)

2021

Suraksha: A Framework to Analyze the Safety Implications of Perception Design Choices in AVs
Hengyu Zhao, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Steve Keckler, Jishen Zhao
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Optimizing Selective Protection for CNN Resilience
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Characterizing and Mitigating Soft Errors in GPU DRAM
Michael B. Sullivan, Nirmal Saxena, Mike O'Connor, Donghyuk Lee, Paul Racunas, Saurabh Hukerikar, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Steve Keckler
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture
NVBitFI: Dynamic Fault Injection for GPUs
Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Oreste Villa, Steve Keckler
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Suraksha: A Quantitative AV Safety Evaluation Framework to Analyze Safety Implications of Perception Design Choices
Hengyu Zhao, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Steve Keckler, Jishen Zhao
Workshop on Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles (SSIV)
Making Convolutions Resilient via Algorithm-Based Error Detection Techniques
Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Reduced Precision DWC: An Efficient Hardening Strategy for Mixed-Precision Architectures
Fernando F. dos Santos, Marcelo Brandalero, Michael B. Sullivan, Pedro M. Basso, Michael Hubner, Luigi Carro, Paolo Rech
IEEE Transactions on Computers

2020

GPU-Trident: Efficient Modeling of Error Propagation in GPU Programs
Abdul Rehman Anwer, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storag…
AV-FUZZER: Finding Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems
Guangpeng Li, Yiran Li, Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Best Paper award
HarDNN: Fine-Grained Vulnerability Evaluation and Protection for Convolutional Neural Networks
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
SRC TECHCON
Making Convolutions Resilient via Algorithm-Based Error Detection Techniques
Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
arXiv
Buddy Compression: Enabling Larger Memory for Deep Learning and HPC Workloads on GPUs
Esha Chouske, Michael B. Sullivan, Mike O'Connor, Mattan Erez, Jeff Pool, David Nellans, Steve Keckler
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
Estimating Silent Data Corruption Rates Using a Two-Level Model
Siva Hari, Paolo Rech, Timothy Tsai, Mark Stephenson, Arslan Zulfiqar, Michael B. Sullivan, Philip Shirvani, Paul Racunas, Joel Emer, Steve Keckler
arXiv
Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNs
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
Workshop on Secure and Resilient Autonomy
HarDNN: Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNs
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
arXiv

2019

ML-based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection
Saurabh Jha, Subho S. Banerjee, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
arXiv
Kayotee: A Fault Injection-based System to Assess the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles to Faults and Errors
Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
arXiv
GPU Snapshot: Checkpoint Offloading for GPU-Dense Systems
Kyushick Lee, Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler, Mattan Erez
International Conference on Supercomputing
On the Trend of Resilience for GPU-Dense Systems
Kyushick Lee, Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler, Mattan Erez
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Supplemental (DSN-…
Best of SELSE (Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects)
ML-based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection
Saurabh Jha, Subho Banerjee, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Buddy Compression: Enabling Larger Memory for Deep Learning and HPC Workloads on GPUs
Esha Choukse, Michael B. Sullivan, Mike O'Connor, Mattan Erez, Jeff Pool, David Nellans, Stephen W. Keckler
arXiv
On the Trend of Resilience for GPU-Dense Systems
Kyushick Lee, Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler, Mattan Erez
IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE)
Award paper
Towards Analytically Evaluating the Error Resilience of GPU Programs
Abdul Rehman Anwer, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai
IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE)

2018

Optimizing Software-Directed Instruction Replication for GPU Error Detection
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage a…
Evaluating and Accelerating High-Fidelity Error Injection for HPC
Chun-Kai Chang, Sangkug Lym, Nicholas Kelly, Michael B. Sullivan, Mattan Erez
The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage…
Kayotee: A Fault Injection-based System to Assess the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles to Faults and Errors
Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
Third IEEE International Workshop on Automotive Reliability & Test
SwapCodes: Error Codes for Hardware-Software Cooperative GPU Pipeline Error Detection
Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Brian Zimmer, Timothy Tsai, Stephen W. Keckler
The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
CRUM: Checkpoint-Restart Support for CUDA's Unified Memory
Rohan Garg, Apoorve Mohan, Michael B. Sullivan, Gene Cooperman
The International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE CLUSTER)
Modeling Soft Error Propagation in Programs
Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Hamartia: A Fast and Accurate Error Injection Framework
Chun-Kai Chang, Sangkug Lym, Nicholas Kelly, Michael B. Sullivan, Mattan Erez
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-…
DUO: Exposing On-chip Redundancy to Rank-Level ECC for High Reliability
Seong-Lyong Gong, Jungrae Kim, Michael B. Sullivan, Howard David, Mattan Erez
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

2017

Understanding Error Propagation in Deep Learning Neural Network (DNN) Accelerators and Applications
Guanpeng Li, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Karthik Pattabiraman, Joel Emer, Steve Keckler
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storag…

2016

Bit-Plane Compression: Transforming Data for Better Compression in Many-core Architectures
Jungrae Kim, Michael B. Sullivan, Esha Choukse, Mattan Erez
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
All-Inclusive ECC: Thorough End-to-End Protection for Reliable Computer Memory
Jungrae Kim, Michael B. Sullivan, Sangkug Lym, Mattan Erez
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
An Analytical Model for Hardened Latch Selection and Exploration
Michael B. Sullivan, Brian Zimmer, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic--System Effects (SELSE)