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Professor Wen-mei W. Hwu
Sanders III Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Endowed Chair
215 Coordinated Science Laboratory
MC 228
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: (217) 244-8270
Fax: (217) 333-3600
Email: w-hwu at illinois dot edu
Professional Service
Organizations
Consulting Activities
Professional Societies Activities
The University
Campus-level
department-level
Organizations
Consulting Activities
Served as
a corporate consultant
to Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, SUN Microsystems, BOPS, NCR and Hitachi.
Served on the following corporate
Technical Advisory Board
Synfora, 2004-present
3Plus1, 2004-present
Consentry, 2005-present
Ageia, 2005-present
Unversal Network Machines, 2003-present
ST Microelectronic, 2006-present
BOPS, 1999-2001
Served as
an expert witness
for the following cases:
NAZOMI Communications, Inc. vs. ARM Holdings, PLC, ARM Limited, and ARM Inc., United States District Court, Northern District of California, served as an expert witness retained by ARM (respondent), with declarations, depositions, and testimony, 2002-2006.
EMC vs. Hewlett-Packard, served as an expert witness retained by Hewlett-Packard, case settled before trial, 2003
Biax Corporation vs. Phillips Semiconductors, United States International Trade Commission, served as an expert witness retained by Phillips (respondent), with declarations, depositions, and testimony, 2006-2007.
Professional Societies Activities
Co-Guest Editor with Sanjay Patel, IEEE MICRO Special Issue on Accelerator Architectures, June/July, 2008.
Program Chair for the 2008 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Beijing, China, June 2008.
Associate Editor, IEEE Computer Architecture Letter, 2003-present
Program Chair for the 1st Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation and optimization, San Francisco, 2003.
Chair, 2002 ACM SigArch Maurice Wilks Award nominations committee. Member 2001-2003.
Program Chair for the 7th Annual IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Monterrey, Mexico, 2001.
Member of National Jury, 2000 Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award
Chair, 1997 ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award committee. Member, 1995-1998.
General Conference Co-Chair, the 21st Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Chicago, Illinois, 1994.
General and Program Chair, the 25th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Portland, Oregon, 1992.
Program Chair for the 21st Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, San Diego, California, 1988.
Served on the program committees for the following years of ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA):
35th, Beijing, China, 2008
33rd, Boston, 2006
31st, Munich, 2004
28th, Sweden, 2001
25th, Barcelona, Spain, 1998
24th, Denver, Colorado, 1997
22nd, Santa Margherita, Italy, 1995
20th, San Diego, CA, 1993
15th, Hononulu, Hawaii, 1988
Served on the program committees for the following years of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS):
12th, San Jose, 2006
9th, Boston, 2000
8th, Santa Clara, 1998
7th, Boston, 1996.
6th, Santa Clara, 1994.
Served on the program and/or steering committees for the following years of the Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO):
41st, Como, Italy, 2008
40th, Chicago, 2007
39th, Orlando, Florida, 2006
38th, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
37th, Portland, Oregon, 2004
36th, San Diego, 2003
35th, Istanbul, Turkey, 2002
34th, Austin, Texas, 2001
33rd, San Jose, California, 2000
32nd, Haifa, Israel, 1999
31st, Dallas, Texas, 1998
30th, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1997
29th, Paris, France, 1996
28th, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1995
27th, Santa Clara, California, 1994
26th, Austin, Texas, 1993
25th, Portland, Oregon, 1992
24th, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1991
21st, San Diego, California, 1988.
Served on the program committee for the following years of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Toulouse, France, 2000.
Served on the program committee for the following years of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Rhode, Greek, 1999, Kos, Greece, 2008
Served on the program committees for the following years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996.
Served on the steering committee and/or program committee for the ACM/IEEE Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compiler Technology (PACT): Brosv, Romania, 2007.
Served on the steering committee and/or program committee for the EU Centers of Excellence High-Performance and Embedded Architecture Conference (HiPEAC): Barcelona, Spain 2005, Ghent, Belgiun, 2007, Goteborg, Sweden, 2008.
Served on the GPGPU Workshop program committees for 1st, Boston, 2007 and 2nd, Washington D.C. 2009.
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computer Special Issue in Memory of Dr. Bob Rau., October 2005.
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions of Architecture and Code optimization, 2003-present
Associate Editor, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2003-present.
Associate Editor: Journal of Parallel Programming, 1992-2005.
Served as a Minitrack Coordinator for the following years of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences:
25th, Koloa, Hawaii, 1992.
28th, Maui, Hawaii, 1995.
Served on the following NSF Panels: CAREER, Research Initiation Award, and Small Business Innovation Research Program.
Served as a
referee/reviewer
in the last two years for papers/books/proposals submitted to:
IEEE Transactions on Computers,
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computers,
Software - Practice and Experience
International Symposium on Computer Architecture,
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitectures,
International Conference on Parallel Processing,
Prentice-Hall, McGraw Hill, and National Science Foundation.
Fellow of ACM, Member of EKH. Fellow of IEEE.
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The University
Campus-level
Steering Committee member and Thrust leader, Information Trust Institute, 2006-2008.
UIUC Marketing Strategy Committee, 2005-2006
University Scholar Selection Committee, University of Illinois, 2002
Campus Level Promotion and Tenure Committee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2003
Office of Technology Management Advisory Board, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001-present
Office of Technology Management Assistant Directory Search Committee, 2002
Research Technology Management Office Business Plan Committee, 2000-2001
Research Technology Management Office Review Committee, 1999-2000
Chair, Research Technology Management Office Technology Transfer Specialist Search Committee, 2000.
Department-level
ECE Advisory Committee, 2005-2007
CSL Assistant Director Search Committee, 2002
ECE Curriculum Committee, 2001-present
ECE Faculty Search Committee, 1998-present
ECE Long Range Planning Committee, 1999-2001
ECE Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1999-present
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