The University of British Columbia

Associate Professor

Tor Aamodt

Tor Aamodt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received his BASc (in Engineering Science), MASc and PhD at the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on architecture and microarchitecture of manycore accelerators such as graphics processing units (GPUs), heterogeneous multicore processors, and analytical performance modeling of modern processor architectures. He has published over 20 papers in top computer architecture conferences and journals and has five patents related to computer architecture. Recent work on implementing hardware transactional memory on GPUs, performed by his research group at UBC, was selected as a "Top Pick" from computer architecture conferences by IEEE Micro magazine. He has served on the technical program committee for several international computer architecture conferences. As a graduate student, he spent about a year as an intern in Intel's Microarchitecture Research Lab. Prior to joining UBC he worked at NVIDIA on the GeForce 8 Series GPU (G80).

Research Areas

• Computer and Software Systems

Research Groups

• Computer and Software Engineering
• System-on-Chip (SoC)

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