Brief Bio

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 research focuses on computer architecture including manycore accelerators (such as GPUs), heterogeneous multicore processors, analytical performance modeling of processor architectures and helper threads. As a graduate student, he spent about a year as an intern in Intel's Microarchitecture Research Lab and prior to joining UBC he worked at NVIDIA on the GeForce 8 Series GPU (G80). He has five patents related to computer architecture.

Service

Program committee member: MICRO (2010, 2011), HPCA (2012), IPDPS (2012), HiPEAC (2012), ICS (2011, 2012), ISPASS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), IIWSC (2010, 2011), ICPP (2010), GLSVLSI (2010, 2011), and others.

Organizing the Architecture Research and Simulation Tools community on gpucomputing.net.