David J. Lilja
Schnell Professor and Head of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Member of the graduate faculty in
Computer Science
and Scientific Computation.
Fellow of the
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
University of Minnesota
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- B.S., Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames.
Research Interests
High-performance computer architecture;
parallel processing;
nanocomputing;
computer systems performance analysis;
exploiting hardware-software interactions.
Schedule
To schedule an appointment, please contact
Josette Barsness at barsn031 at umn dot edu or by phone at 612-625-2855.
Biographical summary
David J. Lilja received a Ph.D. and an M.S., both in Electrical Engineering,
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from
Iowa State University in Ames.
He is currently the Louis John Schnell Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis,
where he also serves
as the ECE department head,
as a member of the graduate faculties in
Computer Science
and
Scientific Computation,
and as a Fellow of the
Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.
Previously,
he worked as a research assistant at the
Center
for Supercomputing Research and Development
at the University of Illinois,
and as a development engineer at
Tandem Computers Incorporated
in Cupertino, California.
He has chaired and served on the program committees of numerous conferences,
and was a
distinguished
visitor of the IEEE Computer Society.
He received a
Fulbright
Senior Scholar Award
to visit the University of Western Australia
in 2001,
and was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship by the Board
of Regents of the University of Minnesota in 1994.
His main research interests include computer architecture,
parallel processing,
computer systems performance analysis,
nano-computing, and high-performance
storage systems.
He has a special interest
in the interaction
of software and compilers with computer architecture,
and the interaction of computer architecture and circuits.
He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
is a member of the ACM,
and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Return
to: U of M Home
