André Seznec wins first Intel Research Impact Medal

André Seznec, leader of team-project ALF at Inria Rennes, received the first Intel Research Impact Medal from the Intel Labs Academic Research Office.

Through this medal, the Intel Labs Academic Research Office recognizes the “exemplary work” carried out by André Seznec on "high-performance computer micro-architecture, branch prediction and cache architecture". This work has been of "tremendous benefit to Intel, the industry, and the academic community as a whole".

André Seznec got a Doctorat ès Sciences from University of Rennes I in 1987. He joined Inria Rennes in 1986 and he is now senior research director at Inria Rennes where he leads the ALF project team. Since his PhD studies, André Seznec has been working on computer architecture. After working on vector supercomputer memory systems in the 80's, he designed OPAC, a hardware research prototype targeting computing intensive linear algebra. Since the early 90's, he has been working on the microarchitecture of microprocessors. He made significant contributions to various microarchitecture mechanisms including the pipeline, the register file, simultaneous multithreading and multicores. His most recognized and most influential contributions are on cache architecture and branch predictors.

The GEHL and TAGE branch predictors he proposed in 2004 and 2006 are generally considered as the most accurate branch predictors proposed so far. André Seznec has published 13 papers at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, the flagship conference on computer architecture. Till 2004, he was the only European on the Hall of Fame (8 papers or more) of the conference.
In 2010, André Seznec was the first member of HiPEAC research community to be awarded an ERC advanced grant for the DAL project: "Defying Amdahl's Law". The DAL project (2011-2016) aims at impacting the design and definition of the 2020's many core processor chips.
André Seznec has also served the HiPEAC community as general co-chair of the HiPEAC conference in 2009. He is the program co-chair for next HiPEAC conference in January 2013 in Berlin. He was also the general chair of the ISCA 2010 conference organise by Inria in Saint-Malo, France.

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Inria

Established in 1967, Inria is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3400 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future. Inria creatively integrates basic research with applied research and dedicate themselves to solving real problems, collaborating with the main players in public and private research in France and abroad and sharing the fruits of their work with innovative companies.
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Hipeac

The FP7 HiPEAC network of excellence is Europe’s premier organization for coordinating research, improving mobility, and enhancing visibility in the computing system field. Created in 2004, HiPEAC today gathers over 1150 leading European academic and industrial computing system researchers from about 100 universities and 50 companies in one virtual center of excellence. HiPEAC covers all computing market segments: embedded systems, general purpose computing systems, data centers and high performance computing. For more information please visit www.hipeac.net

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