- 2013:
* Wen-mei Hwu Keynote at the 2013 SAMOS Conference on July 15, 2013
* Wen-mei Hwu Kenote at the 2013 HiPEAC Conference in Berlin, Germany on January 21, 2013
- 2010:
* IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
* Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- 2009:
* Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Miltimedia and Expo (ICME), "Parallel Computing Revolution in Video Processing", New York City, July 2, 2009
* Keynote speaker, "Many-core Computing - Can compilers and tools do the heavy lifting," IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Rome, Italy, May 2009.
* IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award "for visionary leadership & contributions to exploitation of instruction-level parallel processing," May 28, 2009.
- 2008:
* Keynote speaker, HPC Zurich, "Many-core computing - Current Victories and Coming Battles in Application Development", September 8, 2008.
* Distinguished Lecture Series speaker, Samsung Research, "Many - core GPU Computing - Current Victories and Coming Battles," Seoul, Korea, June 26, 2008.
* Distinguished Lecture Series speaker, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, "Programming Massively Parallel Processors - The CUDA experience," June 21-22, 2008.
* Keynote Speaker, "The Universal Parallelism Vision from Illinois," Intel Programming Systems Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 22, 2008.
* Keynote Speaker, "Many-Core GPU Computing - Current Victories and Coming Battles in Application Development," San Jose, CA, April 1-2, 2008.
* Keynote Speaker, "GPU Computing Research at UIUC," Shanghai Many-Core Workshop, Shanghai, China, March 27-18, 2008.
* Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, Ohio Supercomputing Center and the Ohio State University and the Ohio Supercomputing Center, "Accelerating Science and Engineering Applications with GPU Computing," Columbus, OH, February 19, 2008.
- 2007:
* Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, "GPU Computing - why is it exciting so many application developers," Toronto, Ontario, November 30, 2007.
* Keynote Speaker, "A New GPU Computing and Education Environment for Acceleration Science Discoveries and Engineering Breakthrough," First GPGPU Workshop, Boston, MA, October 2007
- 2006:
*Keynote speaker, "Top Five Reasons Why Sequential Programming Models Could be the Best Way to Program Many-core Systems," the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Microarchitecture, Orlando, Florida, December 11, 2006.
*2006 ISCA Influencial Paper Award for 1991: "IMPACT: An Architectural Framework for Multiple-Instruction-Issue Processors," by P.P. Chang, S.A. Mahlke, W.Y. Chen, N.J. Warter, and W.W. Hwu, in Proceedings at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1991. (2006)
* Keynote speaker, "Top Five Reasons Why Sequential Programming Models Could be the Best Way to Program Many-core Systems," the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Microarchitecture, Orlando, Florida, December 11, 2006.
*2006 ISCA Influencial Paper Award for 1991: "IMPACT: An Architectural Framework for Multiple-Instruction-Issue Processors," by P.P. Chang, S.A. Mahlke, W.Y. Chen, N.J. Warter, and W.W. Hwu, in Proceedings at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1991.
- 2005:
* W.W. Hwu, "Towards Ultra-efficient Computing Platforms," ECE Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, December 5, 2005
* IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Microarchitecture Conferences in 2005 for "Flea-Flicker Multipass Pipelining: An Alternative to the High-Power Out-of-Offense." By R.D. Barnes, S. Ryoo, and W.W. Hwu. (2005)
* W.W. Hwu, "Towards Ultra-efficient Computing Platforms," ECE Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, December 5, 2005
* IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Microarchitecture Conference in 2005 for "Flea-Flicker Multipass Pipelining: An Alternative to the High-Power Out-of-Order Offense," by R.D. Barnes, S. Ryoo, and W.W. Hwu. (2005)
- 2004:
* W.W. Hwu, "Ultra-efficient Computing Platforms: a Grand Challenge," ECE/CREST Distinguished Lecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 28, 2004
* W. W. Hwu, "reaking the Memory Wall for Scalable Microprocessor Platforms," Keynote, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilers, Franc
e, October 1, 2004.
- 2003:
* W. W. Hwu, "Ultra-Efficient Computer Architectures, how do we get there?," Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, October 20, 2003.
- 2002:
* ACM Fellow (elected 2002)
* 2002 ComputerWorld * Medal, Nominated by Hewlett-Packard
* W.W. Hwu, "ROAR: Runtime Optimization Architecture for EPIC Processors," Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, April 3, 2002.
* W.W.Hwu, "Instruction-Level Parallel Processing - The IMPACT Perspective," UCLA Jon Postel Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, March 14, 2002.
* ACM Fellow (elected 2002)
* 2002 ComputerWorld Honors Archive
* Medal, Nominated by Hewelett-Packard, (2002)
- 2001:
* Keynote speaker, "Workload Characterization and Runtime Code Adaptation," the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Workload Charaterization, December 1, 2001, Austin, TX.
* Keynote Speaker, "Workload characterization and Run-time Code Adaptation," Workshop on Workload Characterization, December 1, 2001.
* Tau Beta Pi 2001 Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
* 2001 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker * Eminent Faculty Award, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- 2000:
* Distinguished Lecturer, "EPIC and Beyond, the future of high-end microprocessors," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, March 23, 2000
- 1999:
* Keynote speaker, "EPIC Architecture," All-Spain Parallelism Conference, Murcial, Spain, 1999.
* 1999 ACM Grace M. Hopper Award.
- 1998:
* 1998 ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award
* IEEE Fellow (elected 1998)
- 1997:
* Courant Institute Series Distinguished Lecturer, "Predicated Microprocessor Architectures and their Enabling Compiler Technology," NYU, New York City, October 2, 1997.
* 1997 Pierce Award, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
- 1994:
* Keynote speaker, "VLIW: Is it for Real This Time?" the 27th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Microarchitecture, San Jose, CA,December, 1994.
* Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, "For recognition of excellence in engineering research during the past five academic years."
* 1994 Senior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
* 1994 University Scholar, University of Illinois
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- 1993:
* Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award for 1993 by the National Jury of Award (1993)
- 1991:
* Best paper award for, "Comparing Static and Dynamic Code Scheduling for Multiple-Instruction-Issue Processors," in the Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 18-20, 1991.
- 1988:
* 1988 NSF Research Initiation Award
* Best paper award for "HPSm2: a Refined Single-chip Microengine," presented at the 21st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January, 1988.
- 1986:
* Best paper award for "An HPS Implementation of VAX; Initial Design and Analysis," presented at the 19th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January, 1986.
- 2002:
* 2002 ECE Outstanding Teacher Award. "For sustained excellence in the teaching of Computer Engineering courses and in guiding undergraduate students."
- 2001:
* Advisor's List, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
- 1998:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1998, Spring 1998.
- 1997:
* Advisor's List, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1997
* 1997 Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award.
- 1996:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1996, Spring 1996.
- 1995:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1995.
- 1994:
* Advisor's List, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1994, Spring 1994
- 1993:
* Advisor's List, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1993, Spring 1993
- 1992:
* Advisor's List, College of Engineering, University of Illinois
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1992, Spring 1992
- 1991:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1991, Spring 1991.
- 1990:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 1990, Spring 1990
- 1989:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Spring 1989.
- 1988:
* Inclusion in the incomplete list of teachers Ranks as Excellent, University of Illinois, Spring 1988.