Presenter

J. Ramanujam received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1983, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from The Ohio State University in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He is currently the John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU). In addition, he holds a joint faculty appointment with the LSU Center for Computation and Technology. His research interests are in compilers and runtime systems for high-performance computing, domain-specific languages and compilers for parallel computing, embedded systems, and high-level hardware synthesis. He has participated in several NSF-funded projects including the Tensor Contraction Engine and the Pluto project for automatic parallelization. Additional details can be found at http://www.ece.lsu.edu/jxr/