Computer Systems Laboratory

José F. Martínez
Associate Professor, ECE
Graduate Field Member, CS and ECE

336 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 (607) 255-1874

Assistant: Daniel Richter
314 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
+1 (607) 255-4643

Office Hours: W 1-3pm, or by appointment.

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Brief Bio

José Martínez is associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and graduate field member of computer science at Cornell. He leads the M³ Architecture Research Group. His research work has earned several awards; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers; a HPCA Best Paper Award; a NSF CAREER Award; two IBM Faculty Awards; and most recently, the inaugural Computer Science Distinguished Educator Alumnus Award by the University of Illinois. On the teaching side, he has been recognized with a 2005 Kenneth A. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching Award, as a 2007 Merrill Presidential Teacher, and as the 2011 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering. He also organizes the Computer Engineering Lecture Series.

Prof. Martínez graduated in computer science and engineering in 1996 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, and earned MS (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A two-time recepient of the Spanish government's National Award for Academic Excellence, he held a four-year graduate fellowship from the Bank of Spain. While a graduate student at the UIUC, he was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Prof. Martínez is a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell. He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Computer Architecture and Code Optimization, and senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Publications

A list of selected publications can be found here.

Program Committee Service

ISCA '12, ISCA '11, ISCA '10, Top Picks '10, SC '10, MICRO '09 (Co-chair), ISCA '09, IISWC '09, HiPEAC '09 IISWC '08, DATE '08, MICRO '07, PACT '07, HiPC '07, SC '07, IPDPS '07, ISCA '06, DATE '06, MICRO '05, PACT '04, HPCA '04, ICPP '03.

MS/Ph.D. Students

Saugata Ghose
Max Kelner
Janani Mukundan
Xiaodong Wang
Meyrem Kırman, Ph.D. '10
Nevin Kırman, Ph.D. '10
Engin İpek, Ph.D. '08
Ramazan Bitirgen, MS '08
Jian Li, Ph.D. '06

Undergraduate Students

Hyodong Lee, Class of '13
Hyun Ryong Lee, Class of '13
Sean Chen, BS '11 (became grad student, Stanford)
Tiffany Low, BS '11 (became grad student, Stanford)
Daniel Mejía, BS '10 (joined Microsoft)
Jiho "Ray" Choi, BS '08 (became grad student, Cornell)
Hyungoo Kang, BS '08 (joined Google)
Kon-Hyong "Kenny" Kim, BS '08 (joined Korean army)
Cherie Kwan, BS '08 (joined Google)
Noah Sturcken, BS '08 (became grad student, Columbia)
Andrew Tibbits, BS '07 (became grad student, Stanford)
Carole-Jean Wu, BS '06 (became grad student, Princeton)

Academic Genealogy (for the curious)

José Martínez, Ph.D. 2002, UIUC
Josep Torrellas, Ph.D. 1992, Stanford
John Hennessy, Ph.D. 1977, SUNY Stony Brook
Dick Kieburtz, Ph.D. 1961, U. Washington
Akira Ishimaru, Ph.D. 1958, U. Washington
Gedaliah Held, Ph.D. 1954, U.C. Berkeley
Samuel Silver, Ph.D. 1940, MIT
John Slater, Ph.D. 1923, Harvard
Percy Bridgman, Ph.D. 1908, Harvard
Wallace Sabine, A.M. 1888, Harvard
John Trowbridge, S.D. 1873, Harvard
Joseph Lovering, A.B. 1833, Harvard
Benjamin Peirce, A.B. 1829, Harvard
Nathaniel Bowditch, M.A. 1802 (Honorary), Harvard