Franz Franchetti

Franz Franchetti is the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Engineering Research Accelerator at CMU.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics (Vienna University of Technology, 2003)
• M.Sc. in Technical Mathematics (Vienna University of Technology, 2000)

His research interests focus on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel computing platforms, including multicore CPUs, GPUs, and 3DIC chip design. He leads the SPIRAL effort to automate highly optimized software libraries and explores domain-specific compiler transformations in HPC applications for smart grids and material sciences. Recent work extends SPIRAL to quantum computing.

The scientific awards Franchetti has received include the Gordon Bell Prize (2006), HPC Challenge Class II Award (2010), and the CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship (2013). He and his students have won multiple

• Best Paper Awards at HPEC, DAC, and ISPA
• ACM TODAES Best Paper (2014)
• Student Research Competition wins (PACT 2024, CGO 2023)

Franchetti has advised students like Richard Veras and Thom Popovici. He has secured significant grants from agencies such as DARPA, DOE, NSF, and industry partners (Intel, NVIDIA, Mercury). He co-founded SpiralGen, Inc. and holds leadership roles in organizations like ASciNA Western Pennsylvania and as Honorary Consul of Austria in Pittsburgh.