Franz Franchetti
Assistant Research Professor – 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 focuses 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. As member of the Spiral research team, his research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. Moreover, he is investigating the applicability of these techniques across domains: signal- and image processing, numerical linear algebra, communication and compression, and most recently the stability of power grids. In other collaborative research threads Dr. Franchetti is investigating the applicability of domain-specific transformations within standard compilers, and hardware/software co-design based on high-level hardware and algorithm descriptions, as well as the possibility of application-specific logic within memory. Dr. Franchetti is Thrust Leader of the Security Thrust in Carnegie Mellon’s SRC Smart Grid Research Center and co-founder of SpiralGen, a Pittsburgh, PA company commercializing the technology developed in the Spiral project.
In the News
- Austrian Consulate Visits Pittsburgh Campus
- Franchetti, Voronenko Part of Winning HPC Challenge Team
- Faculty, Staff, Students Celebrate Semester's End at ECE Day
- Professor Franchetti Receives NVDIA Professor Partnership
- Negi Receives Government Stimulus Funds for Power Grid Research
- McFarlin Wins Second Best Paper Award
- ECE Group Wins Best Paper at Domain Specific Languages Conference
- 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