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} 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

 

·      Editorial Board Member, CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing, (2020- )

·      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

 

·      Program Co-Chair, Int’l Conf. on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT), Tianjin, PRC, 2019

·      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.

 

Advisory Boards and Committees:

 

·      Advanced Research Advisory Committee (ARAC), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan (2017 – 2019)

·      Technical Advisory Board, Intel Microprocessor Research Laboratory, Santa Clara, CA. (2001-2004)

·      Election Committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (1997)

·      Advisory committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1992)

·      Advisory committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (1992)

 

Conference Program Committee Membership (Past 10 Years)

 

·      Year 2020 – CGO, LCTES

·      Year 2019 – IPDPS, PACT

·      Year 2018 – IPDPS, PACT, REV-A

·      Year 2017 – REV-A, COMPSAC

·      Year 2016 – PACT, ICS, MICRO Top Picks, IPDPS

·      Year 2015 – IPDPS, APPT

·      Year 2014 – PACT, NPC

·      Year 2013 – HPCA, APPT

·      Year 2012 – Open64, HotSWUp, ASAP, IPDPS

·      Year 2011 – MICRO, APLAS, PACT