Founded by Dr. Tao Li in 2005, the mission of the Intelligent Design of Efficient Architectures Laboratory (IDEAL) is to conduct research on the design and optimization of computer systems and emerging techniques and applications interactions with those systems. While the lab bears the word efficiency in its name, and indeed the lab strives to be pragmatic in all of its work, this is not meant to be a limitation on the scope of its research. Rather, it is meant to indicate the focus of IDEAL’s research on implementing frameworks, motivating designs, and classifying emerging applications for optimizations in areas such as key emerging workloads, computer security, performance evaluation, reliability, and more.