Franz Franchetti - Short CV

Appointments

2021 -	Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering at the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2021 -	Director, Engineering Research Accelerator at the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2021 -	Kavčić-Moura Professor of ECE at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2017 - 2021	Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2016 - 2017	Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2015 -	Faculty Director of IT Services at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2012 - 2016	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)
2003-2004	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)


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Business Involvement

2009 -

CTO (since 2011) and Co-Founder, SpiralGen


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Education

2003	Dr. techn. (PhD, Computational Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology)
2000	Dipl.-Ing. (MS, Technical Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology)
1994	HTL Matura (engineering high school diploma) in Mechanical Engineering and Automation, HTBLuVA Wiener Neustadt, Austria


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Awards-

2024	Outstanding Short Student Paper Award (HPEC 2024) together with S. Rao (lead student), A. Prakash
2024	1st Place in ACM Student Research Competition (PACT 2024) together with S. Fu (lead student) and N. Zhang
2024	Best Poster Runner-up (PRISM Annual Review 2024, Systems & Software track) together with S. Fu (lead student) and N. Zhang
2023	Outstanding Short Paper Award (HPEC 2023) together with P. Brinich, N. Zhang, A. Ebel, and J. Johnson
2023	2nd Place in ACM Student Research Competition (CGO 2023) together with N. Zhang (lead student)
2021	Outstanding Student Paper Award (HPEC 2021) S. Mionis (lead student), J. Larkin (CMU SEI)
2020	Best Poster Award, Supercomputing (SC 2020) together with S. Mionis (lead student), J. Larkin (CMU SEI)
2020	Outstanding Student Paper Award (HPEC 2020) together with S. Rao (lead student), A. Kutuluru, P. Brower, S. McMillan (CMU SEI)
2018	Best Paper Finalist (HPEC 2018) together with V. Ruzicka
2018	Student Innovation Award (HPEC 2018) together with F. Sadi, J. Sweeney, S. McMillan, T. M. Low, J. C. Hoe, and L. Pileggi
2018	MIT GraphChallenge Finalists (HPEC 2018) • together with J. Zhang • together withT. M. Low, D. G. Spampinato, A. Kutuluru, U. Sridhar, D. T. Popovici, and S. McMillan
2014	ACM TODAES Best Paper Award (DAC 2014) together with P. Milder, J. Hoe, and M. Püschel
2014	Best Paper Award (HPEC 2014) together with B. Akin, and J. Hoe
2013	CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship Franz Franchetti
2010	HPC Challenge Class II Award (Most Productive System) Member of the winning team, led by Gheorghe Almasi (IBM Research) [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
2006	Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) Member of the winning team, led by Francois Gygi
2006	Best Paper Award (ISPA 2006)
2001	Austrian Computer Society Award (OCG-Forderpreis) Best M.Sc Thesis in Computer Science 2, awarded in 2001
1999	Siemens Innovation Award (Innovationspreis)


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Patents

2022	High Performance Merge Sort with Scalable Parallelization and Full-Throughput Reduction F. Sadi, L. Pileggi, F. Franchetti U.S. Patent 11249720 February 15, 2022.
2016	3DIC memory chips including computational logic-in-memory for performing accelerated data processing F. Franchetti, Q. Zhu, L. T. Pileggi U.S. Patent 9286216 March 15, 2016


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Grants

2025-2028	MAGNET: MAthematics, ComputinG, and NETworking for Resource-Efficient Computational Science F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI) This work is supported by DOE Fairbanks/ORNL Base
2024-2027	DURBAN: Enhancing Performance Portability In HPC Software with Artificial Intelligence F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI) This work is supported by DOE
2024-2026	COSMIC: Co-designing Scalable ML-aided in-array Computations T-M. Low (Carnegie Mellon University PI), F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University Co-PI) This work is supported by DARPA
2024-2025	EAGER: LLM Cerberus: Guarding LLMs against Hallucinating When Generating Mathematical Software F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI) This work is supported by NSF
2023-2027	Center for PRocessing with Intelligent Storage and Memory (PRISM) - SRC PRISM/JUMP F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI) This work is supported by SRC
2023-2027	Code Synthesis for the PRISM Architecture F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI) This work is supported by UCSD/SRC
2022-2027	Simulation of the Response of Structural Metals in Molten Salt Environment with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, lead), F. Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University PI), T. M. Low (Carnegie Mellon University Co-PI)
2021-2024	Bluestone: Program Translation and Synthesis for Extremely Heterogeneous Architectures F. Franchetti (PI), T. M. Low This work is supported by U.S. Dept. of Energy, DE-FOA-0002460, X-Stack
2021	NTTX for PALISADE \| Trebuchet \| Duality, Inc. F. Franchetti (PI), T. M. Low, M. Franusich This work is supported by DARPA DPRIVE project HR0011-21-9-0003
2021-2024	Intel/VMWare Crossroads (XRD) J. C. Hoe (Carnegie Mellon University, Lead PI), F. Franchetti (CMU, PI), V. Sekar (CMU, PI), J. Sherry (CMU, PI), V. Betz (U of Toronto, PI), D. Chiou (UT Austin, PI), D. Z. Pan (UT Austin, PI)
2020-2025	Unlocking Interactive AI Development for Rapidly Evolving Research P. A. Buitrago (PI), S. Sanielevici (co-PI), F. Franchetti (co-PI) This work is supported by U.S. National Science Foundation project NSF 19-587
2019	SnowWhite: High-Level Reasoning in Compilers F. Franchetti (PI), M. Franusich, J. C. Hoe, T. M. Low, D. Spampinato This work is supported by DARPA PAPPA project HR0011-20-9-0018
2018-2023	FFTX: A Co-Design Project for Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) F. Franchetti (PI), T. M. Low This work was supported by DOE ECP project 2.3.3.07
2018-2021	Spiral/AIML: Co-optimization for High-Performance, Data-Intensive Computing in Resource-Constrained Environments (SEI-LSI) S. McMillan (PI), F. Franchetti, T. M. Low, J. C. Hoe Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
2018	Energy Efficient High Performance through Application-Specific Processor/Program Co-Synthesis (EXTENSION) F. Franchetti (PI), J. M. F. Moura, J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi This work was supported by DARPA PERFECT project HR00111320007
2018	Building a COTS Benchmark Baseline for Graph Analytics (SEI-LENS) S. McMillan (PI), F. Franchetti Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
2017-2018	Automated Code Generation for Future-Compatible, High-Performance Graph Libraries (SEI-LINE) S. McMillan (PI), F. Franchetti Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
2017	Enhancement of MASSIF (Micromechanical Analysis of Stress-Strain Inhomogeneities with Fourier transforms) for Multiscale Simulations of Alloy Microstructure A. D. Rollett (PI), F. Franchetti ENGILITY Corporation
2016	Smart Grid in a Room Simulator (SGRS) M. Ilic (PI), F. Franchetti NIST
2015	Generating Hyper-Portable Future-Proof Computational Kernels with SPIRAL F. Franchetti (PI), M. Franusich, J. C. Hoe, T. M. Low, J. M. F. Moura, D. Padua This work was supported by DARPA BRASS project FA87501620033
2015	Enhancement of FFT-Based Elastic-Visco-Plastic Code for Multiscale Simulations of Alloy Microstructure A. D. Rollett (PI), F. Franchetti DoD HPC PETTT
2015	Spiral for Blue Waters F. Franchetti (PI), M. Franusich NSF PAID, NCSA Blue Waters
2014	Toward a Systematic Collection and Processing of Data in Support of Dynamic Monitoring and Decision Systems (DYMONDS) Framework for Implementing Smart Grids M. Ilic (PI), F. Franchetti, A. Rowe PITA
2014	Spectral Method for Elasto-Viscoplastic Full-Field Deformation as a Test Bed for Testing New Approaches to High Performance Computing A. D. Rollett and F. Franchetti DOD HPC Modernization Program
2013	Smart Grid in a Room: A Hybrid Test-Bed Facility for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)-Based Standards in Microgrids and Their Interactions with Utility Systems M. Ilic (PI), F. Franchetti, S. Kar, S. Ray NIST
2012	CUDA Center of Excellence Kayvon Fatahalian (PI), Red Whittaker, Ian Lane, Jike Chong, Garth Gibson, Onur Mutlu, Franz Franchetti NVIDIA
2012	Energy Efficient High Performance through Application-Specific Processor/Program Co-Synthesis F. Franchetti (PI), J. M. F. Moura, J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi This work was supported by DARPA PERFECT project HR00111320007
2012	High Assurance Spiral: Scalable and Portable Domain-Specific Control System Synthesis F. Franchetti (PI), J. M. F. Moura, S. Kar, A. Platzer, M. Veloso, D. Padua, J. Johnson This work was supported by DARPA HACMS project FA87501220291 \| In the Press
2012	Trusted (CMOS) System-on-Chip Design with Self-Healing Piezoelectric MEMS L. Pileggi (PI), G. Fedder, F. Franchetti, G. 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	Nvidia Professor Partnership Nvidia Grant
2009	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 R. Negi (PI), F. Franchetti, M. Ilic, O. 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)


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