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SIGMICRO Service Award/Dissertation Award/Early Career Award Winners for 2025

November 18, 2025

SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
SIGMICRO Early Career Award

Congratulations to this year's SIGMICRO awardees for their sustained service, groundbreaking dissertations, and impactful early-career scholarship! The 2025 honorees are:

  • Scott Mahlke, 2025 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    Recognized for decades of service and for leading efforts to make and keep MICRO a top-tier conference.
  • Mohammad Bakhshalipour, 2025 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Recognized for bridging real-time robotics and computer architecture.
  • Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, 2025 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Recognized for enabling efficient and scalable DRAM read disturbance mitigation via new experimental insights into modern DRAM chips.
  • Esha Choukse, 2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
    Recognized for foundational contributions to hardware memory compression and to sustainable, efficient datacenter systems.

Please join us in celebrating the remarkable accomplishments of these community members. Learn more about SIGMICRO's awards on our awards page.