10 Facts About Wen-mei Hwu

Wen-mei Hwu is the Walter J Sanders III-AMD Endowed Chair professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Wen-mei Hwu's research is on compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing.

Wen-mei Hwu is a principal investigator for the petascale Blue Waters supercomputer, is co-director of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, and is principal investigator for the first NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence at UIUC.

At the Illinois Coordinated Science Lab, Hwu leads the IMPACT Research Group and is director of the OpenIMPACT project – which has delivered new compiler and computer architecture technologies to the computer industry since 1987.

From 1997 to 1999, Wen-mei Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at Illinois.

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Since 2009, Wen-mei Hwu has served as chief technology officer at MulticoreWare Inc, leading the development of compiler tools for heterogeneous platforms.

In 2020, Wen-mei Hwu retired after serving 33 years in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Currently, Wen-mei Hwu is a Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr Wen-mei Hwu's completed in 1987 a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under Yale Patt.

Wen-mei Hwu served as the Franklin Woeltge Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2004.