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Abraham Farrell
PhD Candidate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
af28@illinois.edu, afarrell538@gmail.com

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at UIUC. I’m most interested in scalable memory systems for many-core CPUs, but have been involved in a variety of projects with amazing collaborators. As a member of the i-acoma research group, I am fortunate to be advised by Josep Torrellas.

Previously, I graduated from Binghamton University with a BS in Computer Engineering in May 2023. There, I worked with Dmitry Ponomarev at the intersection of computer architecture and security.

In July 2026, I will be leaving UIUC with an MS in Computer Science to join Arm’s CPU Performance team in Raleigh, NC.

Please see my CV here.

Publications

[5]Dorado: Clustered Hardware Cache Coherence for 1,000+ Cores.
Proceedings of the 53rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2026
Jovan Stojkovic, Abraham Farrell, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Zhangxiaowen Gong, Christopher Hughes, Josep Torrellas
[4]Performance-Driven Composite Prefetching with Bandits
4th Data Prefetching Championship (DPC4), 2026
Charles Block, Pedro Palacios, Abraham Farrell, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Josep Torrellas
[3]AccelFlow: Orchestrating an On-Package Ensemble of Fine-Grained Accelerators for Microservices
Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2026
Jovan Stojkovic, Abraham Farrell, Zhangxiaowen Gong, Christopher J. Hughes, Josep Torrellas
[2]The Memory Processing Unit: A Generalized Interface for End-to-End In-Memory Execution
Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2026
Minh S. Q. Truong, Yiqiu Sun, Dawei Xiong, Amol Shah, Alexander Glass, Abraham Farrell, James A. Bain, L. Richard Carley, Saugata Ghose
[1]TEE-SHirT: Scalable Leakage-Free Cache Hierarchies for TEEs
Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024
Kerem Arikan, Abraham Farrell, Williams Zhang Cen, Jack McMahon, Barry Williams, Yu David Liu, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev