Presenter

Franz Franchetti is an Associate Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive system). In 2013 he was awarded the CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship by the College of Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Franchetti's research focuses on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms and algorithm/hardware co-synthesis. He targets multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC), graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), FPGA-acceleration for CPUs, and logic-in-memory and 3DIC chip design. Within the Spiral effort, his research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. He leads three DARPA projects in the BRASS, HACMS and PERFECT program and is PI/Co-PI on a number of federal and industry grants. Dr. Franchetti is Faculty Director of Information Technology Services at the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is CTO and Co-Founder of SpiralGen, Inc., a Pittsburgh area startup that commercializes the Spiral technology, and he is the President of the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASCiNA), and leads the ASciNA Western Pennsylvania chapter.