Saturnino Garcia
Ph.D. Student
e-mail: sat @ cs.ucsd
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
About Me

Hi, my name is Sat and I'm a Ph.D. student in the CSE department at UC San Diego where I am a part of the Architecture group. My advisor is Michael Taylor. I was previously advised by Alex Orailoglu. I currently serve as one of the coordinators of the CSE Graduate Student Association and am active with the Jacobs Graduate Student Council.

I received my M.S. in Computer Science in 2007 (from UCSD). Before that, I graduated from Drexel University in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. While there, I worked with Drs. Moshe Kam and Kapil Dandekar. Going even further back, I spent my whole life in a small town in Ohio named Willard. To learn more about my personal interests, check out my personal webpage: elsaturnino.com.

My current research involves design of and programming for multi-core computer architectures. Previously I worked in the area of nanoelectronic architectures and DNA Self-Assmbly. I'm also interested in computer science/engineering education.


Graduate Level Coursework
  • Advanced Compilers (CSE 231)
  • VLSI Test (CSE 244A)
  • Programming Languages (CSE 230)
  • Computer Vision I (CSE 252A)
  • Algorithms (CSE 202)
  • Computability and Complexity (CSE 200)
  • Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE 240B)
  • Advanced Topics in VLSI (ECE 260C)
  • Computer Architecture (CSE 240A)
  • VLSI IC and Systems Design (ECE 260B)
  • Operating Systems (CSE 221)

Teaching

  • Computer Architecture (CSE 240A - Fa06, Fa07)
  • Computer Architecture (CSE 141 - Wi07, Sp07, Su07, Wi08)
  • Computer Architecture Lab (CSE 141L - Sp08, Fa08)
  • Operating Systems (CSE 120 - Su08)
  • Discrete Math (CSE 20 - Su08)
  • Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems (CSE 140 - Su07)
  • Systems II (TDEC 222 at Drexel University)

Publications

  • S. Garcia and A. Orailoglu: Making DNA Self-Assembly Error Proof: Attaining Small Growth Error Rates Through Embedded Information Redundancy. To appear: Proceedings for Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) 2009
  • S. Garcia and A. Orailoglu: Online Test and Fault-Tolerance for Nanoelectronic Programmable Logic Arrays. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nanoelectronic Architectures (NANOARCH) 2008. pp. 8-15
  • G. Anderson, L. Urbano, G. Naik, D. Dorsey, A. Mroczkowski, D. Artz, N. Morizio, A. Burnheimer, K. Malfettone, D. Lapadat, E. Sultanik, S. Garcia, M. Peysakhov, W.C. Regli, M. Kam: A Secure Wireless Agent-based Testbed. IWIA 2004. pp. 19-32