Tom Conte
Thomas Martin Conte is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing; and, since 2011, also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society in 2015.
Biography
Conte received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1986 from the University of Delaware, his Master of Science in electrical engineering in 1988 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He started his career as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. In 1995, Conte moved to North Carolina State University, where he was an assistant professor, then an associate professor, and finally a full professor of electrical and computer engineering. During the summer of 2008 Conte moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and took his current position as a joint full professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Somewhere in there he took a leave of absence to DSP startup BOPS, inc. to serve as Chief Microarchitect and manager of their compiler group.In 2004, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign awarded Conte its Young Alumni Achievement Award.
Conte currently directs several Ph.D. students in topics ranging from compiler design to advanced microarchitectures. His research is or has been supported by DARPA, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Sun, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.
Conte is best known for his contributions to the fields of compiler code generation, computer architecture and computer performance evaluation.