Dr. Tom Conte

Biography

Tom Conte holds a joint appointment at the Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the founding director of the Center for Research in Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH). His main research areas include computer architecture, compiler optimization, with an emphasis on manycore architectures, microprocessor architectures, back-end compiler code generation, and architectural performance evaluation of embedded computer system architectures. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2008, Dr. Conte served as director of the Center for Embedded Systems Research at North Carolina State University, a position he held starting in 1995. In 2015, Dr. Conte became the President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and has been recognized as a fellow of IEEE. He co-led the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative in 2011. Dr. Conte received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1986, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and 1992, respectively.

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