Nam Kim

Nam Sung Kim is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was with Intel as a senior research scientist from 2004 to 2008 after he earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in May 2004. He has published more than 40 technical papers in refereed international conferences and journals and served many prominent international conferences as a technical program committee member. He was a recipient of the IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Student Design Contest Award in 2001, Intel Fellowship in 2002, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Microarchitecture (MICRO) in 2003. His current research interest is designing robust, low-power computing systems in nanoscale technology.

David Christie

Dave Christie is a Fellow in AMD's Research and Advanced Development Lab. At AMD for the past twenty years, he has participated in all AMD-originated x86 processor designs in various roles, and currently focuses mainly on instruction set development. He holds over fifty patents in computer architecture.

Josep Torrellas

Josep Torrellas is a professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. Torrellas leads the I-acoma Architecture Group, where the main emphasis is on designing bulk multicore architecture.

Doug Burger

Doug Burger is a Principal Researcher and manager of the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research. He is currently on leave from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor of Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and where he co-ran the TRIPS project, which developed EDGE architectures and NUCA memory systems. His research interests are in computer architecture, power-efficient computing, novel computing technologies, and compilers. He received the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award in 2006, was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2008, and is Chair of ACM SIGARCH.

Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore is a researcher in the Portmeirion group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Kevin received his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1997 and his PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin in 2007. Kevin has worked on transactional memory both at Wisconsin and at Sun. At Wisconsin, Kevin and his colleagues developed Log-Based Transactional Memory. As part of the Scalable Synchronization group at Sun, Kevin explored uses of best-effort hardware transactional memory. He is currently working on processor and instruction-set virtualization.

Chris Rossbach

Chris Rossbach is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on transactional memory, architecture, and parallel programming. Rossbach has a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

Emmett Witchel

Emmett Witchel has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 2004, after completing his doctorate at MIT. He is currently preparing his tenure case, so please talk him up to the big wigs at your institution who are too important to attend workshops.