introduction

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. I joined Texas State in Fall of 2007 after finishing my Ph.D. at Rice University. I was a member of the parallel compilers group at Rice and was fortunate to have the late Ken Kennedy as my doctoral advisor.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the areas of compilers and computer architecture. My research seeks to develop software technology for increasing programmer productivity, improving application performance and reducing power consumption on both current and next-generation computer systems. Much of my research effort is spent exploring the complex interaction between optimizing compilers and architectural components and exploiting opportunities for performance improvement that arise from this interaction.

I lead the HPC research group at Texas State and also collaborate with several researchers outside the university. I am currently involved in the following projects:

• autotuning for scientific applications
• locality and parallelism on shared-cache multi-core systems
• GPUs for general purpose computation
• compiler-driven superpage allocation