Hayden Coffey

University of Wisconsin–Madison –

Advised by Dr. Michael Swift at SCAIL, with a focus on heterogeneous memory systems and ML for systems. Lead author on regional memory tiering policies (DIMES ’26) and co-lead on ZRay, a portable compiler-assisted memory traffic profiler (IISWC ’26).

National Science Foundation

Semiconductor Research Corporation –

Advanced Micro Devices –

Worked remotely with the Pensando GPU Network Architecture team.

Advanced Micro Devices –

Worked in Santa Clara, California with the Pensando GPU Network Architecture team on a congestion control implementation on ASIC.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

Worked under the direction of Dr. Michael R. Jantz in the CORSys group on a system that utilizes a modified Zswap program to automatically mark, compress, and manage cold data.

Science Applications International Corporation –

Worked in Huntsville, Alabama, building software models and paradigms in Java on the Core team, letting other teams’ work combine into a single system. Received a secret security clearance.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

Worked under the direction of Dr. Austin Z. Henley and collaborated with Oregon State University on an Electron-based IDE written in TypeScript. Visually represented software projects with files viewed as cards that could be moved/stacked alongside annotations used to detail project designs.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

Assisted in research on the protein CDC42 and yeast cell division under the direction of Dr. Maitreyi Das.

University of Wisconsin–Madison –

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

University of Wisconsin–Madison –

Expected 2027. Advised by Dr. Michael Swift. Minor in Astronomy.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

GPA 3.97/4.00. Advised by Dr. Michael Jantz.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville –

Summa cum laude, GPA 3.95/4.00. Minor in Mathematics.