Steve Zekany

Steve Zekany

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Michigan

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan where I am co-advised by Tom Wenisch and Ron Dreslinski. My research is primarily on software systems for visual analytics: developing frameworks and techniques at scale to leverage existing computer vision models and kernels. I am currently working on a project funded by the ADA (Applications Driving Architectures) Center, previously having worked on projects funded by Toyota Research Institute and ARM. I interned at ARM, once with the CPU Engineering group (helping design what became the Cortex-A76) and twice with the High Performance Computing Research group.

I am a strong proponent of computer science education for all, having taught at the high school through graduate level. I recently served as a primary instructor for the undergraduate computer architecture course at Michigan (EECS 370), and my paper on teaching out-of-order RISC-V core design as a capstone undergraduate course (EECS 470) was published at SIGCSE ‘21.

Interests
  • Visual Analytics
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Science Education
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016-

    University of Michigan

  • M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016

    University of Michigan

  • B.S. in Physics, 2008

    University of Michigan

Publications