Jason Lowe-power
Technical Lead, System Level Performance Simulation
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Lowe-power is a technical lead and academic whose 14+ year career bridges computer architecture research and production-scale performance simulation. As a Google Technical Lead and an Associate Professor at UC Davis, he designs system-level hardware and software to boost performance and scalability for data-intensive applications, translating academic ideas into practical tools. He is a core contributor to the prominent gem5 simulator, improving memory-system correctness and checkpointing—work that reflects his focus on rigorous, end-to-end system validation. Trained with a PhD from Wisconsin–Madison and a BS from Georgia Tech, he leads an interdisciplinary research group to architect the next wave of computing beyond Moore’s Law while mentoring the next generation of architects.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
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memory-management10
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
architectures10
cprogramming-language10
architecture10
performance-optimization9
multiprocessing6
risc-v6
bare-metal6
python6
pthreads6
gem56
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gem5/gem5
Aug 2012 - Oct 2022
The official repository for the gem5 computer-system architecture simulator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:1065 reviews, 177 commits, 171 PRs in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason made several contributions to the core functionality of the gem5 computer-system architecture simulator. They added assertions for error checking, particularly within the memory system, specifically regarding bad elements in netdest. Furthermore, the user modified the system configuration by adding parameters to MemoryControl and updating the code for the memory system. They also addressed bugs regarding incorrect data copy operations within the common data block, improving checkpointing functionality.
storedsimulationupstreamsimulatorgem5-simulator
jlpteaching/gem5-assignment-template
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
A template repository to be used with gem5 assignments.
Contributions:10 reviews, 9 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 2 months
templategem5rubycoercion
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