Babak Falsafi is a Professor in the School of Computer and=20 Communication Sciences at EPFL, and an Adjunct Professor of=20 Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He is the Microarchitecture thrust leader for the = FCRP=20 Center for Circuit and System Solutions and directs the Parallel Systems = Architecture Laboratory (PARSA) at EPFL. His research targets = architectural=20 support for parallel programming, resilient systems, architectures to = break the=20 memory wall, and analytic and simulation tools for computer system=20 performance evaluation. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2000, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards between 2001 and 2004, and = an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. He is a senior member of = IEEE and ACM.