Franz Franchetti - Short CV

2010	HPC Challenge Class II Award (Most Productive System) Member of the winning team, led by Gheorghe Almasi (IBM Research) [ECE news] [presentation]
2009	Best Paper Award (HPEC 2009) together with D. McFarlin, and M. Puschel
2009	Best Paper Award (DSL WC 2009) together with D. McFarlin, F. de Mesmay, and M. Puschel
2008	Best Paper Award (HPEC 2008) together with Y. Voronenko, F. de Mesmay, and M. Puschel
2008	City of Wiener Neustadt Culture Prize (awarded in Science) Young Scientist Category (Forderpreis), 2 awarded in 2008 [ECE news]
2006	Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) Member of the winning team, led by Francois Gygi [ECE news]
2006	Best Paper Award (ISPA 2006) [ECE news]
2001	Austrian Computer Society Award (OCG-Forderpreis) Best M.Sc Thesis in Computer Science 2, awarded in 2001
1999	Siemens Innovation Award (Innovationspreis)

2012	Energy Efficient High Performance through Application-Specific Processor/Program Co-Synthesis F. Franchetti (PI), Moura, J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi DARPA PERFECT
2012	High Assurance Spiral: Scalable and Portable Domain-Specific Control System Synthesis F. Franchetti (PI), Moura, Kar, Platzer, Veloso, Padua, Johnson DARPA HACMS
2012	Trusted (CMOS) System-on-Chip Design with Self-Healing Piezoelectric MEMS Pileggi (PI), Fedder, F. Franchetti, Piazza IARPA
2011	Identifying and Removing Barriers to Autovectorization NSF EAGER
2011	Spiral: Code Synthesis for Higher-Level Application Domain Specific Code Patterns Intel EGC grant
2011	HotBench: An Optimization Workbench for Hotspots NSF SHF Small
2011	Zero Knowledge Control in Smart Grids SRC SGRC Seed Project
2010	PACT 2010 Student Travel Grants as PACT Finance Chair NSF
2010	Spiral for SCC Intel Early Equipment Access
2010	Pushing the Limits to Computing: Managing Resources in a Reliable and Efficient Way in Large-Scale Electric Power Grids M. Ilic (PI), F. Franchetti, G. Hug, R. Negi SRC ERI (CMU SGRC)
2010	Application-Specific Logic In Memory (Year 2) F. Franchetti (PI), J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi, Mark Horowitz SRC (C2S2)
2010	Automatic Program Generation for High Performance Data Dependent Applications J. M. F. Moura (PI), F. Franchetti ONR
2010	Generating IPP Library Functionality for Larrabee using SPIRAL (Renewal) Intel Grant
2010 2009	Nvidia Professor Partnership Nvidia Grant Generating IPP Library Functionality for Larrabee using SPIRAL (Renewal) Together with M. Puschel Intel Grant
2009	A Computing Framework for Distributed Decision Making to Ensure Robustness of Complex Man-Made Network Systems: The Case of the Electric Power Networks Rohit Negi (PI) F. Franchetti, Marija Ilic,Ole Mengshoel NSF CPS
2009	Application-Specific Logic In Memory F. Franchetti (PI), J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi, Mark Horowitz SRC (C2S2)
2009	From SPIRAL to Silicon: Synthesis of Ultra-High-Performance SAR in End-of-Roadmap CMOS J. C. Hoe (PI), F. Franchetti, L. Pileggi SRC (C2S2)
2009 2009	Computer Generation of Multicore Software for Software-Defined Radio J. M. F. Moura (PI), F. Franchetti, M. Puschel ONR STTR (with SpiralGen) Automatic Program Generation for Data-Dependent Applications J. M. F. Moura (PI), F. Franchetti, M. Puschel ONR
2008	Generating IPP Library Functionality for Larrabee using SPIRAL Together with M. Puschel Intel Grant
2007	FFT Generation for the Cell Processor Together with M. Puschel Mercury Computer Systems Inc.
2007	Intelligent HW-SW Compilers for Signal Processing Applications (Phase II) J. M. F. Moura (PI), F. Franchetti, J. C. Hoe, J. R. Johnson, D. A. Padua, M. Puschel, M. M. Veloso DARPA DSO
2007	Program Generation for Parallel Platforms Together with M. Puschel Supported by NSF, CPA
2006	Towards Production Quality Library Generation Using SPIRAL Together with J. M. F. Moura and M. Puschel Intel Equipment Grant
2006	Spiral: Automatic Performance Tuning Using Chapel Together with H. P. Zima Supported by the JPL SURP Office.
2004 - 2005	Advanced Code Generation in Digital Signal Processing Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship J2322 Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

2012 -	Associate Research Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2008 - 2012	Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2005 - 2008	Systems Scientist (special faculty member) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2004 - 2005	Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship J2322)
2003	Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Project 5 of the SFB AURORA)
2000 - 2003	Research Assistant at the Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Project 5 of the SFB AURORA)

2003	Dr. techn. (PhD, Computational Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology)
2000	Dipl.-Ing. (MS, Technical Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology)


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