Franz Franchetti
Research Scientist – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 2005 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | B29 Porter Hall |
| Telephone | (412)-268-8297 |
| Fax | (412)-268-3890 |
| franzf@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~franzf/ |
| Assistant | Claire Bauerle |
Research Interests
Dr. Franchetti's research focusses on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms, including multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC), graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and FPGA-acceleration for CPUs. His research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. He is member of the Spiral research team.
In the News
- Computer Generation of Commercial Libraries Becomes a Reality
- Franchetti Awarded 2007 Culture Prize in Science
- Best Paper Awarded to ECE Faculty Members
- Research Team Awarded Gordon Bell Prize
- Carnegie Mellon's Collaborative Research is Driving Force Behind Revolutionary New Tool for Writing Software Codes
Keywords
Automatic performance tuning, digital signal processing transforms, advanced architectures
Education
PhD, 2003
Vienna University of Technology
MS, 2000
Vienna University of Technology