Pedro Diniz

Research Interests:

Parallelizing Compilers, Program Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Current Address:

Computational Sciences Division

USC Information Sciences Institute

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

Phone: (310) 822-1511 (x88457)

Fax: (310) 823-6714

Previous Addresses:

University of California at Santa Barbara

E-mail pedro@isi.edu

Contents

• Recent Research:
  Commutativity Analysis: A New Analysis Technique for Parallelizing Compilers
  Synchronizations Transformations for Parallel Computing
  Dynamic Feedback: An Effective Technique for Adaptive Computing
  

• Current Research:
  Data-Intensive Architectures and Processing-In-Memory Computing
  Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computing
  Pointer Analysis for Safety Analysis of Loops
  

  Scientific Publications
  

• Current Projects:
  DEFACTO - A Design Environment for Adaptive Computing
  DIVA - A Data-IntensiVe Architecture
  SLATE - Compiler-driven Design Space Exploration for Heterogeneous System-on-a-Chip
  PetaScale - Execution-Time Analysis for PetaScale Architectures.
  

• Current Students:
  Jeremy Abramson (Computer Science, PhD. Candidate)
  

• Former Students:
  Ivan J. Hom (Ph.D. in Electrical Enginnering, 2000) Now at Fujitsu Labs.
  Joonseok Park (Ph.D in Computer Science, June 2004) Now with Samsung Corp. in Seoul, Korea.
  Nastaran Baradaran (Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2007) Now with Cisco Corp. in San Jose, Calif.
  
  

• Teaching:
  CSCI565 (Spring 98) - Compiler Design
  CSCI599 (Fall 98) - Advanced Compiler Design: Compiler Analysis and Optimization for High-Performance Computing
  CSCI565 (Spring 99) - Compiler Design
  CSCI565 (Spring 05) - Compiler Design
  CSCI565 (Spring 06) - Compiler Design
  

• Misc:
  Advice to Applicants for Graduate Studies in CS at USC
  Driving Directions to ISI and my office
  

• Personal:
  Poems, Cartoons, Postcards and Photos
  How to pronounce my name ? Try this !!!