Wen-mei Hwu
Wen-mei Hwu | |
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Alma mater | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Doctoral advisor | Yale Patt |
Wen-mei Hwu (
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
.
Biography
Dr. Hwu's completed in 1987 a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under Yale Patt.[2] Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were the predecessors of the form of out-of-order execution that became commercially successful with the Intel
compiler optimization and computer architecture, he received the 1993 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, the 1994 Xerox Award for Faculty Research, the 1994 University Scholar Award of the University of Illinois, the 1997 Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, the 1998 ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the 1999 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the 2001 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. He served as the Franklin Woeltge Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2004. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM
.
Current Research Affiliations
- Wen-mei Hwu NVIDIA Research
- IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research
- Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- IMPACT Research Group at the Coordinated Science Lab
- Concurrent Theme for the Gigascale Systems Research Center
- CUDA Center of Excellence at Illinois
See also
- Wen-mei Hwu's Homepage
- Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda
- Parallel@Illinois
- Electrical and Computing Engineering at Illinois
- First Virtual School on Computational Science and Engineering: GPUs and Multicores - led by Wen-mei Hwu and David Kirk (Summer 2008)
- University of Illinois NVIDIA CUDA Course taught by Wen-mei Hwu and David Kirk (9 March 2007)
- Wen-mei Hwu: Chief Technology Officer, MulticoreWare Inc.
References
- ^ Humber, Andrew (30 June 2008). "NVIDIA Appoints First CUDA Center of Excellence". NVIDIA. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Wen-Mei Hwu". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 23 June 2022.