His recent research contribution includes the first work on trace-centric processors. The speaker's industry experience includes over a year with the processor design group of Cray Research, Inc. in 1991-1992. Sriram obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1991 for a thesis on the characterization of the Cray Y-MP processor. He is currently researching hardware and software runtime schemes for further exploiting instruction-level parallelism in high-performance processors.