José F. Martínez
Lee Teng-hui Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Brief bio
I am the Lee Teng-hui Professor and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. I have been very fortunate to work with some extraordinary people, and as a result my research has received a number of awards over the years; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers; a HPCA Best Paper award, as well as MICRO and HPCA Best Paper nominations; a NSF CAREER Award; two IBM Faculty Awards; two Qualcomm Faculty Awards; and a Distinguished Educator Award by the University of Illinois’ Computer Science Department (my graduate alma mater).
On the teaching side, I have been recognized with two Kenneth A. Goldman ’71 and one Dorothy and Fred Chau MS’74 College of Engineering teaching awards; a Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Teaching Excellence; thrice as the most influential college educator of a Merrill Presidential Scholar (Andrew Tibbits ’07, Gulnar Mirza ’16, and Angela Jin ’21); and as the student-elected 2011 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering.
I am an IEEE Fellow and the elected Vice Chair of ACM SIGARCH. I was a member of the steering committees of ISCA and MICRO (both 2020-2023). In 2017 I was Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Transactions Operating Committee, in charge of overseeing all of the Society’s journal publications; before that, I served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (2013-2016). I was Program Co-chair (with David August) of MICRO 2009, Program Chair of HPCA 2016, and General Co-chair (with José Duato) of ISCA 2020 and 2021.
I graduated in Computer Science & Engineering (“Licenciado en Informática de Sistemas”) 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. I received two national awards for academic excellence from Spain’s Ministry of Education, and came to the United States on a four-year fellowship from the Bank of Spain, for which I am forever grateful.
Research
My primary research interest is computer architecture: Microprocessors and computer systems; microarchitectures; multiprocessor and multicore architectures; caches and memory subsystems; embedded systems; buses and interconnects.
I am currently co-lead PI and a member of the executive leadership of the DARPA/SRC ACE Center for Evolvable Computing and the NSF Science and Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS). Prior to CROPPS’ launch, I co-founded and was on the executive committee of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). I was also co-director of the DARPA/SRC Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP) (2018-23).
Publications
You can find a list of selected publications here.
Current Students
- Socrates Wong, Ph.D.
- Cecilio Tamarit, Ph.D.
- Ezgi Yücel, Ph.D.
- Owen Liu, M.Eng.
- Tomás Choi, ugrad
- Akshati Vaishnav, ugrad
- Michael Wei, ugrad
Ph.D. Graduates
Kailin Yang (2024), Helena Caminal (2022), Shuang Chen (2021), Skand Hurkat (2019), Xiaodong Wang (2016), Saugata Ghose (2014), Janani Mukundan (2013), Meyrem Kirman (2010), Nevin Kirman (2009), Engin Ipek (2008), Jian Li (2006)
Academic ancestry (curiosity)
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
220 Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 607-255-9545
martinez@cornell.edu
Administrative Assistant
Vicki A. Pousseur
College of Engineering
242A Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 607-255-4326
vickip@cornell.edu
Office hours
Fridays 9am-Noon; please pick a slot at least two hours in advance. If you cannot make any of these times, contact my administrative assistant (see above).
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José F. Martínez
Lee Teng-hui Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
220 Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 607-255-9545
martinez@cornell.edu
Administrative Assistant
Vicki A. Pousseur
College of Engineering
242A Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 607-255-4326
vickip@cornell.edu
Office hours
Tuesdays 9am-Noon; please pick a slot at least two hours in advance. If you cannot make any of these times, contact my administrative assistant (see above).
Brief bio
I am the Lee Teng-hui Professor and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. I have been very fortunate to work with some extraordinary people, and as a result my research has received a number of awards over the years; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers; a HPCA Best Paper award, as well as MICRO and HPCA Best Paper nominations; a NSF CAREER Award; two IBM Faculty Awards; two Qualcomm Faculty Awards; and a Distinguished Educator Award by the University of Illinois’ Computer Science Department (my graduate alma mater).
On the teaching side, I have been recognized with two Kenneth A. Goldman ’71 and one Dorothy and Fred Chau MS’74 College of Engineering teaching awards; a Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Teaching Excellence; thrice as the most influential college educator of a Merrill Presidential Scholar (Andrew Tibbits ’07, Gulnar Mirza ’16, and Angela Jin ’21); and as the student-elected 2011 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering.
I am an IEEE Fellow and the elected Vice Chair of ACM SIGARCH. I was a member of the steering committees of ISCA and MICRO (both 2020-2023). In 2017 I was Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Transactions Operating Committee, in charge of overseeing all of the Society’s journal publications; before that, I served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (2013-2016). I was Program Co-chair (with David August) of MICRO 2009, Program Chair of HPCA 2016, and General Co-chair (with José Duato) of ISCA 2020 and 2021.
I graduated in Computer Science & Engineering (“Licenciado en Informática de Sistemas”) 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. I received two national awards for academic excellence from Spain’s Ministry of Education, and came to the United States on a four-year fellowship from the Bank of Spain, for which I am forever grateful.
Research
My primary research interest is computer architecture: Microprocessors and computer systems; microarchitectures; multiprocessor and multicore architectures; caches and memory subsystems; embedded systems; buses and interconnects.
I am currently co-lead PI and a member of the executive leadership of the DARPA/SRC ACE Center for Evolvable Computing and the NSF Science and Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS). Prior to CROPPS’ launch, I co-founded and was on the executive committee of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). I was also co-director of the DARPA/SRC Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP) (2018-23).
Publications
You can find a list of selected publications here.
Current Students
- Socrates Wong, Ph.D.
- Cecilio Tamarit, Ph.D.
- Ezgi Yücel, Ph.D.
- Owen Liu, M.Eng.
- Tomás Choi, ugrad
- Akshati Vaishnav, ugrad
- Michael Wei, ugrad
Ph.D. Graduates
Kailin Yang (2024), Helena Caminal (2022), Shuang Chen (2021), Skand Hurkat (2019), Xiaodong Wang (2016), Saugata Ghose (2014), Janani Mukundan (2013), Meyrem Kirman (2010), Nevin Kirman (2009), Engin Ipek (2008), Jian Li (2006)
Academic ancestry (curiosity)
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