MARTIN BURTSCHER

Research Scientist
Center for Grid and Distributed Computing
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. (2000), Computer Science, CU Boulder
M.S. (1996), Computer Science, ETH Zurich
B.S. (1994), Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Research Areas
Program parallelization, performance optimization, data compression, computer architecture

Publications
Lossless data compression (floating-point compression, program-trace compression)
[TC'08] [DCC'07a] [DCC'07b] [CAN'06] [DCC'06] [TC'05] [CGO'05] [SIGMETRICS'04] [PACT'03]
Parallel computing (automatic parallelization, MPI and SDSM library acceleration)
[LCPC'08] [EUROPAR'05] [PDPTA'05] [SC'04] [PDPTA'02]
Computational brain-injury modeling (bioengineering, visualization, BIC)
[BIOCOMP'08] [MSV'07] [SBC'07] [MSV'06] [SBC'05] [METMBS'05] [SBC'03]
Performance evaluation and optimization (compiler optimizations, processor simulators, energy-efficiency metrics, phase detection)
[ISPASS'08] [IISWC'06] [CF'05] [MICRO'04] [PLDI'02]
Prefetching and caching (multicore architectures, helper threading, 3D architectures)
[TACO'06] [PACT'06] [D&T'05] [PACT'05] [TECHCON'05] [MSP'05]
Load-value prediction (hybrid predictors, energy/complexity efficient design, confidence estimators)
[WISA'06] [CAN'05] [WDDD'05] [VPW'04] [TC'02] [CAN'02] [ICCD'00] [DISS'00] [PACT'99] [JILP'99] [PFDC'98]

Software and Data
Benchmark suites: Lonestar (irregular parallelism), BioPerf (optimized source code)
Sequence mining: CBBT (phase detection), patterns (frequent subsequences)
Floating-point compression: FPC (compression algorithm), data (13 datasets)
Trace compression: TCgen (compressor generator), VPC3 (compression algorithm)
Brain-injury modeling: TBI (model, BIC, animations)

Ph.D. Students
Paruj Ratanaworabhan: Automatic race tolerance
Ilya Ganusov: Multi-core helper threading (graduated in 2007, now at Achronix)

Professional Activities
Associate Editor: JILP
Founder & Chair: VPW2, VPW1
Committee Member: ISCA'09, PPoPP'09, IISWC'08, MSPC'06, IISWC'05, CGO'05, ICS'02
Senior Member: ACM, IEEE, IEEE CS