Dr. Franz Franchetti

Biography

Franz Franchetti is the Kavčić-Moura Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and his Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2006, he was part of the team that won the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award), and in 2010, the team won the HPC Challenge Class II Award for the most productive system. In 2013, he received the College of Engineering Dean’s Early Career Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon. His research primarily focuses on automatic performance tuning, program generation for emerging parallel platforms, and algorithm/hardware co-synthesis, targeting multicore CPUs, clusters, high-performance computing (HPC), GPUs, FPGAs, and more. He has been involved in leading several DARPA projects and is currently the associate dean of research in the College of Engineering and director of the Engineering Research Accelerator at Carnegie Mellon. Franchetti is also a co-founder and CTO of Spiral Gen, Inc., a startup that commercializes Spiral technology. In addition, he serves as the honorary consul of the Republic of Austria in Pittsburgh and is actively engaged in the local Austrian scientific community.

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