Dr. Matt Sinclair

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Matt Sinclair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also holds affiliate positions in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and the Teaching Academy. Primarily a computer architect, his research spans operating systems and parallel programming. He is passionate about designing tools for studying future heterogeneous computing systems and serves as a member of the gem5 Project Management Committee. He is an instructor at UW-Madison, part of the Excel Initiative, and previously served as a Madison Teaching & Learning Fellow. His research has earned several accolades, including the NSF CAREER award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award nomination. Sinclair completed his PhD in Computer Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Sarita Adve.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

2018-01-01 — Present

University of Wisconsin-Madison • Madison, WI

Leads the Heterogeneous Architectures Lab (HAL) and focuses on the design, programming, and optimization of future computing systems.

Awards

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NSF CAREER Award

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2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination

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Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

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2018 David J. Kuck Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

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ACM SIGARCH - IEEE Computer Society TCCA 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

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Mavis Future Faculty Fellowships

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Feng Chen Memorial Award

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W.J. Poppelbaum Award

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Saburo Muroga Fellowship

Requirements for University of Wisconsin–Madison

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:92
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:125
Overall
Required:125
Prerequisites
Programming experience (Data Structures, Machine Organization) One year college-level calculus
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose
  • CV/Resume
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Unofficial transcripts
Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Computer Sciences