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Faculty Profile - Thomas M. Conte

Professor
Computer Systems and Software, and VLSI Systems and Digital Design

Phone: 404.385.7657
Office: Klaus 2334

Biography

Tom Conte holds a joint appointment in the Schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his bachelors degree in EE from the University of Delaware in 1986; and, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign in 1988 and 1992, respectively.

Dr. Conte's research is in the areas of computer architecture and compiler optimization, including manycore architectures, microprocessor architectures, back-end compiler code generation, architectural performance evaluation and embedded computer system architectures. He is the IEEE Computer Society Vice President for Publications, past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Awards Committee, past chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO), the past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture (TC-uARCH), and also a fellow of the IEEE. He is the editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization, and was the editor in chief of the Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism from 1997-2001 and 2002-2005. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, and the IEEE Computer and IEEE Micro magazines.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Computer architecture
  • Compiler optimization
Distinctions
  • IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core Member award
  • IEEE Fellow (citation: “for contributions to computer architecture, compiler code generation and performance evaluation”)
  • Young Alumni Achievement Award, Dept. of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 1996

Last revised on December 14, 2011.