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Franz Franchetti

Systems Scientist – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 2005 –

Contact Information
Department	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office	B29 Porter Hall
Telephone	(412)-268-8297
Fax	(412)-268-3890
Email	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

• 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