Natalie Enright Jerger

Natalie Enright Jerger is the Director of the Division of Engineering Science and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is currently the Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture and was formerly the Percy Edward Hart Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has received many prestigious awards throughout her career such as the McLean Award from the University of Toronto, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Borg Early Career Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Engineering Institute of Canada and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.

She has served as the program co-chair of the 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), the 7th Network-on-Chip Symposium (NOCS) and the program chair of the 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). In 2017, she co-authored the second edition of On-Chip Networks with Tushar Krishna and Li-Shiuan Peh. Her research is supported by NSERC, Intel, CFI, AMD, Qualcomm, and CRC.

Beyond research, Enright Jerger is also involved in outreach activities for women in computer architecture having served as chair of WICARCH from 2011-2022. She strongly encourages all women working in this area to consider joining.

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