Wen-mei Hwu
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Wen-mei Hwu is a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in compilers and reconfigurable computing.
Hwu's Ph.D. research was at the University of California, Berkeley under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were the predecessors of the form of out-of-order execution that became commercially successful with the Intel P6.
At UIUC Hwu has led the IMPACT group, specializing in compilers for VLIW processors. In 2002 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.