Torsten Hoefler

Torsten Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. He previously led performance modeling for the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois. His work includes key contributions to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard.

His research focuses on performance-centric system design, spanning scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance modeling for large-scale simulations and artificial intelligence. Core interests include optimizing computing architectures through mathematical models.

Hoefler holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University, where he received the Young Alumni Award (2014) and Distinguished Alumni Award (2022).

Major Awards:

• ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2019)
• IEEE Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (2022)
• 6× Best Paper Awards at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing
• ERC Starting & Consolidator Grants
• ACM/IEEE Fellowships

He chairs MPI working groups and serves on ACM SIGHPC's steering committee since 2013.