Farzana Ahmed Siddique
CS PhD Candidate @ UVA
She/her
I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, working with Professor Kevin Skadron. My research is in computer architecture, with a current focus on Processing-In-Memory (PIM), mainly, general-purpose PIM architecture design, benchmarking, and simulation frameworks.
I grew up in Bangladesh and completed my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Since then, I have worked on topics ranging from automata processing on FPGA platforms to dynamic graph processing, but I am generally drawn to systems problems that sit at the intersection of performance and programmability.
You can reach out to me at farzana at virginia dot edu.
Education & Experiences
Education
Computer Science
University of Virginia
Computer Science and Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Govt. Hazi Mohd. Mohsin College, Chittagong, Bangladesh
B. M. S. Girls' High School and College, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Courses
- Hardware Security
- Compilers
- Computer Architecture & Design
- Operating Systems
- Algorithms
- Database Systems
Work Experience
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia (UVA)
Meta Platforms Inc.
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia (UVA)
iPay Systems Ltd.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Publications
* indicates equal contribution
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Architectural Modeling and Benchmarking for Digital DRAM PIM
IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2024
Farzana Ahmed Siddique, Deyuan Guo, Zhenxing Fan, Mohammadhosein Gholamrezaei, Morteza Baradaran, Alif Ahmed, Hugo Abbot, Kyle Durrer, Kumaresh Nandagopal, Ethan Ermovick, Khyati Kiyawat, Beenish Gul, Abdullah Mughrabi, Ashish Venkat, Kevin Skadron -
GraphTango: A Hybrid Representation Format for Efficient Streaming Graph Updates and Analysis
International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 52, Issue 3, 2024
Alif Ahmed*, Farzana Ahmed Siddique*, Kevin Skadron -
Deterministic vs. Non-Deterministic Finite Automata in Automata Processing
arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10077, 2022
Farzana Ahmed Siddique, Tommy James Tracy II, Nathan Brunelle, Kevin Skadron -
A Roadmap for Enabling a Future-Proof In-Network Computing Data Plane Ecosystem
arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04563, 2021
Daehyeok Kim, Nikita Lazarev, Tommy Tracy, Farzana Ahmed Siddique, Hun Namkung, James C Hoe, Vyas Sekar, Kevin Skadron, Zhiru Zhang, Srinivasan Seshan -
A Tale of Institutional Education in Bangladesh: Students' Perspective
International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2016
Muhammad Hussain Mahdi*, Nafisa Anzum*, Farzana Ahmed Siddique*, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Kazi Shahidullah, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam
Course Projects
For my hardware security course project, I designed and implemented threat models to attack one of the microarchitectural optimizations called value predictor. The hypotheses for the threat model was, existing value predictors are susceptible to targeted mis-prediction, and therefore can be mapped directly to the Load Value Injection (LVI) type attacks. For the hardware simulator, Gem5 has been used in this project.
Implemented a basic RV32I processor for the Computer Organization and Design course project. The processor uses single issue pipelining. Static branch prediction (predict branch as not taken) has been used to handle control hazard. In order to handle structural hazard, a memory arbiter has been implemented and used. For handling data hazard, a register tracker has been implemented and used. VHDL has been used for the implementation, ModelSim has been used for design simulation and Precision Synthesis for design synthesis.
As a part of my graduate operating systems course, I implemented linux shell functionality using POSIX. I used C++ for the implementation. The shell functionality includes: executing commands, single input/output redirection, and pipelining.
Implemented a parallel, binary reduction algorithm to find the maximum number in a given list. For N numbers, the program uses log2(N) threads to cooperatively determine the maximum number in the list. No new threads have been spawned in each round—threads have been reused in all the rounds. A barrier has been implemented using posix binary semaphore to ensure synchronization among the threads.
Implemented a simplified C API for read-only operations on FAT32 files and directories.
Implemented C APIs to address the issue of communicating with a client which is hiding behind firewall or NAT. Built an external port forwarding mechanism similar to ssh reverse port-forwarding and SOCKS without the encryption overhead. This mechanism circumvents the restrictions of NAT and firewall and establishes the connection with outside port.
A Few Accomplishments
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
The Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, presents awards to the graduate and undergraduate students in different categories. I got the end of the year (2021-2022) award in the category outstanding graduate teaching link.
Student Travel Grant
Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W), USA awarded the travel grant for participating in the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop 2020.
ICCIT Conference Award
Our paper titled A Tale of Institutional Education in Bangladesh: Students' Perspective got the ICCIT, 2016 conference award in the track ITS: Information Technology and Systems.
Most Significant Contributor of The Year
I volunteered as a webmaster for creating the very first webpage of the BWCSE. This helped to present the activities of the BWCSE to the outside world, as a result BWCSE presented me the Most Significant Contributor of The Year, 2014 award link.
Anita Borg Student-Faculty Scholarship
I have received this scholarship during my undergrad in the year 2014. Because of this scholarship I was able to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 2014. This was the very first time an undergrad student from Bangladesh got this scholarship link.
Board Scholarship
I got this scholarship from the Chittagong, Bangladesh Education Board for my outstanding performance in the secondary school board examination.
Junior Scholarship
I got this scholarship from the Chittagong, Bangladesh Education Board for my outstanding performance in the junior school board examination.
Volunteer Works
Computer Science Department Graduate Student Group at UVA
Mentoring a first year PhD student at the CS department of UVA
Association of Bangladeshi Students at UVA
Did photography and videography at the events arranged by Association of Bangladeshi Students at UVA
Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering (BWCSE)
Worked as a mentor for couple of undergrad female students
Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering (BWCSE)
Planned and organized events such as robotics competition, faculty/alumni talks, etc.
Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering (BWCSE)
Designed and developed the webpage for the BWCSE