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Franz Franchetti is a Kavčić-Moura Professor and the Associate Dean for Research at the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) in Technical Mathematics and his Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He leads research in automatic performance tuning and program generation targeted towards emerging parallel platforms, focusing on multicore CPUs, high-performance computing systems, GPUs, FPGAs, and 3D integrated circuit chip design. Notably, he has been a part of award-winning teams, including the Gordon Bell Prize and the HPC Challenge Class II Award. Franchetti has conducted significant research involving domain-specific transformations in standard compilers and has led several DARPA projects. He is also involved in the commercial sector as the CTO and Co-Founder of Spiral Gen, Inc., a startup that commercializes related technologies. His professional engagement includes leadership within academic organizations and collaborations with federal research agencies.
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