Bergen Language Design Laboratory (BLDL)

Lawrence Rauchwerger is a Professor of Computer Science and of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University and the co-Director of the Parasol Laboratory. He received an Engineer degree from the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1996 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M where he co-founded the Parasol Lab. He has held Visiting Faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bell Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and INRIA Saclay, Paris. Rauchwerger's research has targeted the area of high performance compilers, thread level speculation in both software and hardware implementation, libraries for parallel and distributed computing, and adaptive optimizations. His current focus is STAPL, a parallel superset of the ISO C++ STL library which is driven by his goal to improve the productivity of parallel software development. His approach to parallel code development and optimization (STAPL and SmartApps) has influenced industrial products at major corporations.

Rauchwerger visits BLDL week 21, 2011.
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