Thomas Martin Conte (born 1964) is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Computer Science at

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; and, since 2011, also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (joint appointed) at

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. He is a fellow of

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(IEEE). He served as the president of the

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in 2015.

Biography

Conte received his

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degree in 1986 from the

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, his

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in 1988 from the

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, and his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He started his career as an assistant professor at the

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. In 1995, Conte moved to North Carolina State University (in

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), where he was an assistant professor (1995–1998), then an associate professor (1998–2002), and finally a full professor of electrical and computer engineering (2003–2008). During the summer of 2008 Conte moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and took his current position as a joint full professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at

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. Somewhere in there (2000–2001) he took a short detour to DSP startup BOPS, inc. to serve as a manager of their back and compiler group and "chief microarchitect" (because they already had a "chief architect"). In 2004, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign awarded Conte its Young Alumni Achievement Award. Conte currently directs several Ph.D. students in topics ranging from compiler design to advanced microarchitectures. His research is or has been supported by DARPA, Compaq (formerly Digital), Hewlett-Packard (formerly Compaq), IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Sun, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. Conte is best known for his contributions to the fields of compiler code generation, computer architecture and computer performance evaluation.

International Roadmap for Devices and Systems

In 2015, Conte worked with IEEE Fellow Paolo Gargini to bring the

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into the

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after the

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had ceased sponsorship of the organization. In recognition of the changing landscape of the electronics and computer industries, Conte and Gargini renamed the effort the

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References

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