Steve Zekany

Steve Zekany

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Michigan

Biography

Update July 2022: I am currently a Member of Technical Staff at AMD Research.

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.

I have an interest in community service which led me to run a local scout troop for about 10 years. Also, I’ve been interested in problems such as reduction of global poverty, increased biosecurity, and reduction of nuclear risks. These interests recently led me to Effective Altruism and the idea of donating my time and money to effective charities.

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