Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger, Eppright Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named a 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for his contributions to thread-level speculation, parallelizing compilers
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Rauchwerger joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 1996 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor, full professor and Eppright professor in 2001, 2006 and 2014, respectively. He has also served as co-director of the Parasol Laboratory since 1998. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, National Science Foundation CAREER award recipient, and has chaired various IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery conferences.
Rauchwerger received his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and Engineer in Electronics and Telecommunications degree from the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, Romania. He will return to his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in August 2019 as a professor in their computer science department, but intends to continue working with colleagues at Texas A&M.
Through collaboration and cutting-edge contributions, AAAS has grown to become the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society. Since its founding in 1848, the organization has strived to bridge the gap between research and application by solving real-world challenges with innovations in science, technology, engineering