Calvin Lin
Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas, Austin
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Teaching
CS178H
Turing Scholars Program
CS380P
CS395T
Students
Jia Chen
Curtis Dunham
Akanksha Jain
Renee St. Amant
Apollo Ellis (MS 2011)
Paul Navratíl (PhD 2010)
Karthik Murthy (MS 2010)
Alison Norman (PhD 2010)
Walter Chang (PhD 2010)
Ben Hardekopf (PhD 2009)
Teck B. Tok (PhD 2007)
Adam Brown (MS 2007)
Ibrahim Hur (PhD 2006)
Sam Guyer (PhD 2003)
Rich Cardone (PhD 2002)
Daniel Jiménez (PhD 2002)
Kent Spaulding (MS 1998)
Frank Kuehndel (MS 1998)
Publications
Honors and Awards: Teaching
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2013
Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching, 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
Best Paper Award
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, 2013,
"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, 2011,
"Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with B. Hardekopf, 2011.
Best Paper Award Finalist
"A Comprehensive Approach to DRAM Power Management," with Ibrahim Hur, 2008
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture,
February 2008, pp. 305--316.
UT Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2009
Ben Hardekopf (advisee)
Best Paper Award
Programming Language Design and Implementation.
"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.
"Memory Prefetching Using Adaptive Stream Detection," with Ibrahim Hur.
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,
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: July 23, 2013
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