Yasuko Eckert is a Computer Architecture Researcher at AMD since November 2011, with previous experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Microarchitecture Research Intern at Sun Microsystems. Prior roles include serving as an Embedded Systems Engineer at Sony and an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin. Yasuko Eckert holds a PhD and MS in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, obtained between 2006 and 2011, and a BS in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin, completed in 2004.