Onur Mutlu
Turkish computer scientist (born 1978)
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Onur Mutlu (born 1978) is a computer scientist and professor of computer architecture at ETH Zurich.[1] He previously held the William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] His research focuses on computer architecture, memory systems, hardware security, bioinformatics and efficient computing systems. He leads the SAFARI Research Group at ETH Zurich.[3] He was born in Turkey, he took his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and his postgraduate degree and PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.[4]
Mutlu is known for research on memory system design and reliability, including work on the RowHammer phenomenon in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).[5] His group's research on the RowHammer vulnerability was the first to demonstrate that repeatedly accessing certain rows in DRAM can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, revealing a widespread hardware failure mechanism, with implications for system security and reliability.[6] As of March 2026[update] he had an h-index of 139, and 473 cited publications.[7]
Awards and honors
Mutlu has received numerous honors for his research.[8] In 2017, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems".[9] In 2018, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for "contributions to computer architecture research and practice" and elected as a member of the Academy of Europe.[10][11]