Dr. Evan Speight

Biography

Evan Speight is a Professor of Practice in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He focuses on incorporating real-world experiences and innovative pedagogical techniques into the ECE curriculum. As a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Radyalis, a medical software company, he has made significant contributions to quality assurance validation for radiation treatment plans used in cancer patient care. Evan holds 46 patents and has authored over 30 papers, mainly in the fields of computer architecture, interconnection networks, cache hierarchy design, and fast Monte Carlo simulation. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 and completed his MS and Ph.D. at Rice University in 1997 with a specialization in software and distributed shared memory. After graduation, he joined the faculty at Cornell University from 1999 to 2003, where he taught various advanced courses and was awarded the outstanding undergraduate teaching award in 2002. In 2003, he moved to the IBM Austin Research Lab to work on the PERCS project, which was a DARPA-funded initiative that produced the world's fastest supercomputer. During his time at IBM, he contributed to detailed architectural simulation models, designed the cache hierarchy for the POWER7 chip, and developed several patents related to a fully-connected PERCS interconnection network. After leaving IBM, he co-founded Radyalis, where he and his team leverage their extensive experience to advance high-performance computing solutions within the medical space.

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