Associate Research Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Porter Hall B29
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA-15213
Phone: +1 412 268 8297
Fax: +1 412 268 3890
E-mail:  franzf at ece.cmu.edu

Faculty Assistant: Claire Bauerle
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Biography

Franz Franchetti is an Associate Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive system).

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 (www.spiral.net), his research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. 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 Faculty Senator for the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon. He is CTO and co-founder of SpiralGen, a Pittsburgh, PA company commercializing the technology developed in the Spiral project.

Franz has been playing the electric guitar on-stage in various rock bands since 1993. Watch him perform live or visit Wr. Neustadt’s newcomer festival SCHMU, where he performed and served as stage engineer. He is leading the Western Pennsylvania chapter of Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASCiNA). Please contact Prof. Franchetti if you are an Austrian academic in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Selected Publications

F. Franchetti, Y. Voronenko, S. Chellappa, J. M. F. Moura, and M. Püschel
Discrete Fourier Transform on Multicores: Algorithms and Automatic Implementation
In IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on “Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores”, 2009.

F. Franchetti, F. de Mesmay, Daniel McFarlin, and M. Püschel
Operator Language: A Program Generation Framework for Fast Kernels
Proceedings of IFIP Working Conference on Domain Specific Languages (DSL WC), 2009.
Best Paper Award.

D. McFarlin, F. Franchetti, M. Püschel and J.M.F. Moura
High Performance Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation On Commodity Architectures
Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009.

P. A. Milder, F. Franchetti, J. C. Hoe, and M. Püschel
Formal Datapath Representation and Manipulation for Implementing DSP Transforms
Proceedings of Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2008.

F. Franchetti, Y. Voronenko, M. Püschel
Formal Loop Merging for Signal Transforms
Proc. Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2005, pages 315-326.

M. Püschel, J. Moura, J. Johnson, D. Padua, M. Veloso, B. Singer, J. Xiong, F. Franchetti, A. Gacic, Y. Voronenko,
K. Chen, R. W. Johnson, N. Rizzolo
SPIRAL: Code Generation for DSP Transforms
Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on "Program Generation, Optimization, and Adaptation," Vol. 93, No. 2, 2005, pages 232-275.

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