December 11, 2017
Professor Andreas Moshovos of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is elected “for contributions to high-performance architecture including memory dependence prediction and snooping coherence”.
The ACM is the world’s largest computing society, with more than 100,000 members worldwide. Professor Moshovos is one of just 54 ACM members elevated to Fellow in the 2017 cohort for major contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cryptography, computer architecture, high performance computing and programming languages. This is the ACM’s most prestigious member grade and recognizes the top one per cent of ACM members.
“ACM Fellows are elected by their peers, so it’s gratifying to be recognized by the colleagues I work with and respect immensely,” says Moshovos. “I’m honoured to be in such good company and grateful to work with very talented students and collaborators.”
Professor Moshovos joined the University of Toronto in 2000, where his research has focused on the design of computing engines for various applications and optimizing their performance, energy and cost. More recently, his work has focused on highly-specialized computing engines for deep learning. “The emergence of deep learning has been driven, in part, by the computing hardware that has helped to enable some of the practical applications we are seeing today,” says Moshovos. “It’s an exciting time to be working in computer architecture and collaborate with researchers in a variety of areas to help drive these technologies further and faster.”
In 2010, Professor Moshovos was recognized by the ACM with the SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award which is conferred to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to computer architecture within the first 20 years of their career.
“Congratulations to Professor Moshovos on this significant career achievement,” says Professor Farid Najm, chair of ECE. “This is a well-deserved honour that recognizes his leadership in, and contributions to, the field of computer architecture.”
More information:
Jessica MacInnis
Senior Communications Officer
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; jessica.macinnis@utoronto.ca