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Jos&eaute; F. Martínez

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José F. Martínez
Associate Professor, ECE
Visiting Associate Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University

A314 Hamerschlag Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
+1 (412) 268-4003

Assistant: Karen Crane
314 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
+1 (607) 255-4643

Office Hours: N/A

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José Martínez is associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and graduate field member of computer science at Cornell, and leads the M3 Architecture Research Group. His research work has earned several awards; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers; a HPCA Best Paper Award; a NSF CAREER Award; and two IBM Faculty Awards. On the teaching side, he has ben recognized with a 2005 Kenneth A. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching Award, and as a 2007 Merrill Presidential Teacher. He also organizes the Computer Engineering Lecture Series.

Prof. Martínez graduated in computer science and engineering in 1996 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, and earned MS (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A two-time recepient of the Spanish government's National Award for Academic Excellence, he held a four-year graduate fellowship from the Bank of Spain. While a graduate student at the UIUC, he was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

He is a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell, as well as the ACM, the IEEE, and the SHPE professional societies. Prof. Martínez is also associate editor of ACM Trans. on Computer Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), and of ACM Computing Surveys.

Publications

A list of selected publications can be found here.

Program Committee Service

ISCA '10, MICRO '09 (Co-chair), IISWC '09, ISCA '09, HiPEAC '09 IISWC '08, DATE '08, MICRO '07, PACT '07, HiPC '07, SC '07, IPDPS '07, ISCA '06, DATE '06, MICRO '05, PACT '04, HPCA '04, ICPP '03.

Ph.D. Students

Saugata Ghose
Nevin Kırman
Derek Lockhart
Janani Mukundan
Meyrem Kırman, Ph.D. '09
Engin İpek, Ph.D. '08
Jian Li, Ph.D. '06

Undergraduate Students

Sean Chen, class of '11
Tiffany Low, class of '11
Daniel Mejía, class of '10
Jiho "Ray" Choi, BS '08 (became grad student, Cornell)
Hyun Goo Kang, BS '08 (joined Google)
Kon-Hyong "Kenny" Kim, BS '08 (joined Korean army)
Cherie Kwan, BS '08 (joined Google)
Noah Sturcken, BS '08 (became grad student, Columbia)
Andrew Tibbits, BS '07 (became grad student, Stanford)
Carole-Jean Wu, BS '06 (became grad student, Princeton)

Academic Genealogy (for the curious)

José Martínez, Ph.D. 2002, UIUC
Josep Torrellas, Ph.D. 1992, Stanford
John Hennessy, Ph.D. 1977, SUNY Stony Brook
Dick Kieburtz, Ph.D. 1961, U. Washington
Akira Ishimaru, Ph.D. 1958, U. Washington
Gedaliah Held, Ph.D. 1954, U.C. Berkeley
Samuel Silver, Ph.D. 1940, MIT
John Slater, Ph.D. 1923, Harvard
Percy Bridgman, Ph.D. 1908, Harvard
Wallace Sabine, A.M. 1888, Harvard
John Trowbridge, S.D. 1873, Harvard
Joseph Lovering, A.B. 1833, Harvard
Benjamin Peirce, A.B. 1829, Harvard
Nathaniel Bowditch, M.A. 1802 (Honorary), Harvard