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Franz Franchetti is the Associate Dean for Research and a Kavčić-Moura Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) and Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degrees in Technical and Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His research focuses on automatic performance tuning and program generation on emerging parallel platforms and algorithm/hardware co-synthesis, particularly targeting multicore CPUs, high-performance computing systems, and FPGAs. Franchetti has led various DARPA projects and served as Co-Principal Investigator on the DOE ExaScale Project XStack. He has been recognized as a key figure in high-performance computing, winning awards such as the Gordon Bell Prize. He plays an active role in the Austrian academic community in North America as the immediate past president of ASciNA, and has previously worked with the Smart Grid Research Center at Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, he is known for his involvement in music, performing on stage with rock bands.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Oversees research initiatives within the College of Engineering.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Professorship focused on advanced research in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Engineering Research Accelerator • Pittsburgh, PA
Leads the Engineering Research Accelerator to foster research development.
Security Thrust, Carnegie Mellon’s SRC Smart Grid Research Center • Pittsburgh, PA
Guided research on security in smart grid technology.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.