Jason's research focuses on increasing the energy efficiency and performance of end-to-end applications like analytic database operations used by Amazon, Google, Target, etc. One important aspect of this research is adding hardware mechanisms to systems that enable all programmers to use emerging hardware accelerators like GPUs. Additionally, Jason is a leader of the open-source architectural simulator, gem5, used by over 1500 academic papers. Jason received his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Summer 2017. He was awarded the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Cisco Computer Sciences Award in 2014 and 2015.