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Franyell Silfa

Short Biography

I am a researcher in the ARCO (ARchitectures and COmpilers) research group in the Computer Architecture Department, UPC BarcelonaTech. I received a BS and ME in Computer Engineering from the USU and Ph.D. in Computer Architecture from the UPC. My thesis was done under the supervision of Dr. Jose Maria Arnau and Prof. Antonio González.

My research focuses on energy-efficient hardware architectures for cognitive computing. I work on novel techniques to improve the energy efficiency of Domain Specific Accelerators and CPUs (edge and High-performance) for deep learning applications.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Conferences:

  • "Exploiting Kernel Compression on BNNs". Franyell Silfa, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez. To appear in DATE 2023, April 2023.

  • "E-BATCH: Energy-Efficient and High-Throughput RNN Batching". Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau, and Antonio Gonzlez. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC), June 2022.

  • "Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection". Franyell Silfa, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), December 2020.

  • "Neuron-Level Fuzzy Memoization in RNNs". Franyell Silfa, Gem Dot, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez. In Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2019.

  • "E-PUR: An Energy-Efficient Processing Unit for Recurrent Neural Networks". Franyell Silfa, Gem Dot, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), November 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Journals:

  • "E-BATCH: Energy-Efficient and High-Throughput RNN Batching". Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau, and Antonio Gonzlez. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. (TACO), March,2022.

  • "A Multi-Functional Penta-Needle Thermo-Dielectric Sensor for Porous Media Sensing". W. Sheng, K. Rumana, M. Sakai, F. Silfa and S. B. Jones. IEEE Sensors Journal, May 15, 2016.