Onur Mutlu

Onur Mutlu (born November 6, 1978) is a Turkish-American computer scientist and professor of computer architecture at ETH Zurich, where he leads the SAFARI Research Group, known for research on computer architecture and particularly for demonstrating the RowHammer phenomenon in DRAM, in which repeatedly accessing certain memory rows can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, revealing a widespread hardware security vulnerability. He previously held the William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Microsoft Research, Intel, Google, VMware and AMD. Mutlu earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and his master's and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.