Calvin Lin
    Professor of Computer Science
    University of Texas, Austin
 
   
 
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  Honors and Awards: Teaching

  • William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, 2019-2020

  • USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Central Region, 2018

  • President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2015

  • Provost's Senior Teaching Fellow, 2015

  • UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2013

  • Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013

  • USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Central Region, 2013

  • University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, 2011

  • USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Region, 2010

  • College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2003


    •  Honors and Awards: Research

  • 2023 CGO Test of Time Award
    for "Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with B. Hardekopf, International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), 2011.

  • IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023
    "Mockingjay: Effective Mimicry of Belady's MIN Policy," with I Shah and A. Jain, IEEE Micro "Top picks from Microarchitecture Conferences issue" 2023,

  • Best Paper Award Finalist
    28th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). "Effective Mimicry of Belady's MIN Policy,"
    with I. Shah and A. Jain, 2022

  • Micro Top Picks 2022 Honorable Mention
    International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), "A Hierarchical Neural Model of Data Prefetching,"
    with Z. Shi, A. Jain, K. Swersky, M. Hashemi, and P. Raganathan, 2021

  • Winner 2nd Championship Value Prediction (Unlimited Category)
    "Combining Branch History and Value History For Improved Value Prediction,"
    with C. Sakhuja, A. Subramanian, P. Joshi, and A. Jain, 2019

  • 2019 HPCA Test of Time Award
    for "Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons," with D. Jiménez, Proceedings of the 7th Int'l Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture. January, 2001. pp. 197--206.

  • Winner 2nd Cache Replacement Competition
    "Hawkeye: Leveraging Belady's Algorithm for Improved Cache Replacement,"
    with A. Jain, 2017

  • Micro Top Picks 2017 Honorable Mention
    43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), "Leveraging Belady's Algorithm for Improved Cache Replacement,"
    with A. Jain, 2016

  • Best Paper Award Finalist
    46th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). "Linearizing Irregular Memory Accesses for Improved Correlated Prefetching,"
    with A. Jain, 2013

  • Best Paper Award
    Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EPGV). "Dynamic Scheduling for Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Ray Tracing," with P. Navratil, H. Childs, and D. Fussell. May, 2012.

  • Best Paper Award
    International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). "Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with B. Hardekopf, 2011.

  • Best Paper Award Finalist
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). "A Comprehensive Approach to DRAM Power Management," with Ibrahim Hur, February 2008, pp. 305--316.

  • UT Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2009
    Ben Hardekopf (advisee)

  • Best Paper Award
    Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). "The Ant and the Grasshopper: Fast and Accurate Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with Ben Hardekopf, 2007.

  • IBM Faculty Partnership Award
    2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06

  • Best Paper Award Finalist
    39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). "Memory Prefetching Using Adaptive Stream Detection," with Ibrahim Hur, 2006

  • IEEE Micro Top Picks
    "Adaptive History-Based Memory Schedulers for Modern Microprocessors," with Ibrahim Hur, IEEE Micro "Top picks from Microarchitecture Conferences issue" 26(1), January/February 2006, pp. 22--29.

  • Best Paper Award
    37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). 2004. "Adaptive History-Based Memory Schedulers," with Ibrahim Hur.

  • Faculty Fellow
    2000-2001, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012

  • NSF CAREER Award
    2000-2004


    •   Last updated: February 28, 2022