Alumnus Named Microsoft New Faculty Fellow
September 25, 2009
By: Cheri Helregel
University of Illinois computer science alumnus Luis Ceze has been selected to receive the 2009 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Award. Ceze conducted research under the advisement of UPCRC Illinois faculty, Josep Torrellas. Their collective work contributed to foundational research for current UPCRC Illinois projects as well as the current Bulk Multicore Architecture Project. Their paper, "The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Improved Programmability," will be featured in the December 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM.
Luis Ceze is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. His research focuses on improving programmability and reliability of multicore systems. His research spans computer architecture, compilers, operating systems, and programming languages. One of his group's key projects is to completely remove nondeterminism from multiprocessor systems, potentially changing the way we debug, test, and deploy multithreaded code. In addition, his group is designing systems that automatically avoid software bugs in the field, and is rethinking the role of memory in modern computer systems to better match programmability and scalability challenges.
Josep Torrellas is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Illinois department of computer science. His research focuses on parallel and sequential computer architecture, processor-memory integration, thread-level speculation, low power design, and reliability. Torrellas leads the i-acoma architecture group whose main focus is designing The Bulk Multicore Architecture - a UPCRC Illinois research project.
About UPCRC Illinois
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC Illinois) at the University of Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC Illinois is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.
Tom Hord, Illinois College of Engineering, and Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Illinois, contributed to this article.