Pen-Chung Yew

 

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

4-192 Keller Hall

200 Union Street, SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Contact: <yew> {at} cs [dot] umn [dot] edu

 

Education

Ph.D.  1981

   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science.

M.S.   1977

   University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Computer Engineering

B.S.   1972

   National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering

 

 

 

Professional Experiences

  • Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (1994-present)
  • Director, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2008-2011)
  • Head, Department of Computer science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2000-2005)
  • Associate Head, Department of Computer science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (1995-1996, 1999-2000)
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (1994-2000)
  • Associate Director, Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (1992-1994).
  • Director, Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program, Division of Microelectronic Information Processing Systems, National Science Foundation. (1991-1992)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (1991-1994)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (1987-1991)
  • Senior Computer Engineer, Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (1984-1992)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (1981-1984)

 

Academic Awards and Honors

 

  • EMC Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC (2008-2011, 2013-2016)
  • William Norris Land-Grant Chair Professor, University of Minnesota (2000-2005)
  • IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Award (2005)
  • IEEE Fellow (1998)
  • International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) - Best Paper Award (2008)
  • International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) - Best Paper Award (2007)
  • International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPDPS) - Best Paper Award (2000)
  • IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (1990-1993)

 

Editorship

 

  • Editor, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Academia Sinica (2009-2011)
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002-2005)
  • Guest Co-Editor of a special issue on Parallel and Distributed Systems for Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Academic Sinica (2000)
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (1993-1997)
  • Subject Area Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Academic Press, Inc. (1989-1995).
  • Guest Editor of a special issue on Compilers and Languages for Parallel and Distributed Computers for IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Feb. 1999
  • Guest Editor of a special issue on Memory Organization in Parallel Computers for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (1995)
  • Guest Editor of a special issue on Parallel Languages and Compilers for IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (1991)
  • Guest Editor of a special issue on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (1991).

 

Conference Chairmanship

 

  • General Co-Chair, Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Minneapolis, MN, 2014
  • Program Co-Chair, 1st Asia-Pacific Programming Languages and Compilers Workshop (APPLC), Beijing, 2012
  • General Co-Chair, Int'l Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compiler Techniques (PACT), Minneapolis, MN, 2012
  • Program Co-Chair, Symp. on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT), Shanghai, PRC, 2011
  • Program Chair, ACM SIGPLAN 16th Annual Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (Ppopp) San Antonio, TX, 2011
  • Program Chair, 39th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), San Diego, CA  (2010)
  • General Chair, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Minneapolis, MN (2006)
  • Program co-chairman, Asian-Pacific Computer Systems Architectures Conference (ACSAC), Beijing, PRC, (2004)
  • Program co-chairman, Int'l Conf. on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-8), Boston, MA (2002)
  • Program Vice-Chair, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), San Francisco, (2001)
  • Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Interaction Between Compilers and Computer Architectures (INTERACT-1 through INTERACT-6), 1997-2002.
  • Program Vice-Chair, Int'l Conf on High Performance Computing (HiPC), India (1999)
  • Program Co-Chair, Int'l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Taiwan (1998)
  • Program Co-Chair, 10th Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computers (LCPC-10), Minneapolis, MN (1997)
  • Program Chair, International Conf. on Supercomputing (ICS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1996)
  • Program Chair of the Architecture and Algorithm Track, Int'l Conf. on Computer Design (ICCD), Austin, TX (1996)
  • Program Vice Chair, International Conf. on Supercomputing (ICS), Barcelona, Spain (1995)
  • General Co-Chair, Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Chicago, IL (1994)
  • Program Co-Chair, Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), St. Charles, Illinois (1990)

 

Conference Steering Committee Membership

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  • Int’l Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2014-2016
  • Int'l Conf on Parallel architectures and Compiler Techniques (PACT), 2012-2015
  • ACM SIGPLAN 18th Annual Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (Ppopp), 2012-2015
  • Workshop on Asia-Pacific Programing Languages and Compilers (APPLC), 2013
  • Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC), 2005-2008.

 

Conference Program Committee Membership (Past 10 Years)

 

·      Year 2015 – IPDPS, APPT

·      Year 2014 – PACT, NPC

·      Year 2013 – HPCA, APPT

·      Year 2012 – Open64, HotSWUp, ASAP, IPDPS

·      Year 2011 – MICRO, APLAS, PACT

·      Year 2010 – PACT, Frontier, ASAP

·      Year 2009 – ASAP, APPT, Open64

·      Year 2008 – ISCA, ISPASS, ASAP, ACSAC, Open64, EPHAM

·      Year 2007 – PACT, ASAP, SAC

·      Year 2006 – HPCA, ASAP, APDCM