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Jos&eaute; F. Martínez

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

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

Assistant: Karen Crane
314 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
+1 (607) 255-4643

Office Hours: MT 1:25-2:15pm

José Martínez is associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and graduate field member of computer science at Cornell, and 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; and an IBM Faculty Award. On the teaching side, he has ben recognized with a 2005 Kenneth A. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching Award, and as a 2007 Merrill Presidential Teacher. He also organizes the Computer Engineering Lecture Series, and hosts the Electrical and Computer Engineering sessions of the CURIE Workshop for future women engineers and the CATALYST Workshop for future minority engineers.

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.

He is a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute at Cornell, as well as the ACM, the IEEE, and the SHPE professional societies.

Publications

A list of selected publications can be found here.

Program Committee Service

ISCA '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

Ramazan Bitirgen
Saugata Ghose
Meyrem Kırman
Nevin Kırman
Janani Mukundan
Engin İpek, Ph.D. '08 (1st employment: Microsoft Research)
Jian Li, Ph.D. '06 (1st employment: IBM Research)

Undergraduate Students

Jiho "Ray" Choi, BS '08 (became grad student, Cornell)
Hyun Goo Kang, BS '08 (joined Google)
Kon-Hyong "Kenny" Kim, BS '08 (became grad student, Cornell)
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)

M.Eng. Students

Ethan Bancala, M.Eng. '05
Gary Chow, M.Eng. '05
Weixian Lu, M.Eng. '05
Will Crocco, M.Eng. '04
Ji Lei, M.Eng. '04
David Li, M.Eng. '04
Fred Trinkoff, M.Eng. '04

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