Chase Block

I am a PhD student working with the i-acoma group in the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My interests are mainly in computer architecture and hardware/software systems development, although I have worked on a variety of other projects in the past. Previously, I studied Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

In the past, I have worked on a range of topics and with several groups, including firmware development for Amazon’s Scout, databases at Microsoft Azure, CPU verification with Intel’s Advanced Architecture Development Group, automotive electronics with the University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team (a part of Longhorn Racing), and bioelectronics with UT Austin’s Lu Group.

news

Apr 04, 2024	I’m excited to be presenting our work on communication in distributed sparse matrix multiplication, called Two-Face, at ASPLOS in San Diego this month! See you there!

selected publications

ASPLOS

Two-Face: Combining Collective and One-Sided Communication for Efficient Distributed SpMM

Charles Block, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Charith Mendis, Ariful Azad, and Josep Torrellas

In The 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, Apr 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{block24twoface,
  author = {Block, Charles and Gerogiannis, Gerasimos and Mendis, Charith and Azad, Ariful and Torrellas, Josep},
  title = {Two-Face: Combining Collective and One-Sided Communication for Efficient Distributed SpMM},
  booktitle = {The 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System},
  month = apr,
  year = {2024},
  series = {ASPLOS '24},
  volume = {2},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3620665.3640427},
  address = {New York, NY, USA}
}