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Lisa Wills

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
D304 LSRC, 308 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708
D304 LSRC, 308 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2019 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2019 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

In the News


Published October 15, 2019
New Faculty, Bold Thinking

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Recent Publications


LLM.265: Video Codecs are Secretly Tensor Codecs

Conference Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture Micro · October 17, 2025 As the parameter size of large language models (LLMs) continues to expand, the need for a large memory footprint and high communication bandwidth have become significant bottlenecks for the training and inference of LLMs. To mitigate these bottlenecks, var ... Full text Cite

BigLittleMCA: A Spatially-Optimal Tiled Hardware Accelerator for MCMC Image Processing

Journal Article ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · September 17, 2025 Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithms offer a general framework for performing interpretable inference but have high overheads due to the computational complexity of the sampling process and the large number of samples required to produce an accurate ... Full text Cite

Assassyn: A Unified Abstraction for Architectural Simulation and Implementation

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · June 21, 2025 The continuous growth of on-chip transistors driven by technology scaling urges architecture developers to design and implement novel architectures to effectively utilize the excessive on-chip resources. Due to the challenges of programming in register-tra ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2027

CAREER: Effectuating Hardware-Accelerated Systems with Domain-Specific Primitives

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026

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Education, Training & Certifications


Columbia University · 2014 Ph.D.