Faculty Profile - Thomas M. Conte
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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.
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Last revised on December 14, 2011.

