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Keith D. Cooper is the L. John and Ann H. Doerr Professor in Computational Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on program analysis, optimization, and compiler construction. He has authored influential textbooks like Engineering a Compiler and has produced 18 Ph.D. students. Cooper has served in key administrative roles, including Chair of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2019–2020), Associate Dean for Research in the Brown School of Engineering (2012–2018), and Co-Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (2015–2019).
Education: Ph.D. (1983), M.A. (1982), and B.S. (1978) in Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
Research Interests: Program analysis and optimization, compiler design, parallel computing, adaptive compilation, and memory hierarchy optimization. His work includes foundational contributions to interprocedural analysis, register allocation (Chaitin-Briggs algorithm), and compiler frameworks like ParaScope.
Awards: ACM Fellow, George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching (2019), and the L. John and Ann H. Doerr Chair (2019).
Grants & Leadership: Played a pivotal role in Rice’s Data Science Initiative and the design of Duncan Hall. Advised over 25 students and contributed to numerous grants in compiler research and high-performance computing.
Labs & Teams: Key contributor to the Rice Compiler Group and the Ken Kennedy Institute, advancing research in compilers, parallel computing, and computational science.
