2026 Wen-mei W. Hwu: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	81	1007	976	537	518	496	29041

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - ACM Fellow For technical contributions and leadership in computer architecture.
1999 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For the design and implementation of the IMPACT compiler infrastructure which has been used extensively both by the microprocessor industry as a baseline for product development and by academia as a basis for advanced research and development in computer architecture and compiler design.

Overview

Wen-mei W. Hwu is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a significant number of publications in this field.

The main areas of study encompass several subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Major topics covered in their work include:

Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Topic Modeling
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Wen-mei W. Hwu has contributed to a variety of research papers. Some of the recent publications are:

"EMOGI" (2020), published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"PyLog: An Algorithm-Centric Python-Based FPGA Programming and Synthesis Flow" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Computers
"Efficient Methods for Mapping Neural Machine Translator on FPGAs" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
"Differential Treatment for Stuff and Things: A Simple Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Method for Semantic Segmentation" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Exploring HW/SW Co-Design for Video Analysis on CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Systems" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

The most frequent venues for publishing research include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Collaborations with other researchers have been an important part of Wen-mei W. Hwu's work. The most frequent co-authors include:

Jinjun Xiong
Izzat El Hajj
David B. Kirk
Vikram Sharma Mailthody
Deming Chen

Wen-mei W. Hwu has been recognized with awards such as the ACM Fellow (2002) for technical contributions and leadership in computer architecture, and the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1999) for the design and implementation of the IMPACT compiler infrastructure, which has been influential in both industry and academia.

Best Publications

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach

David B. Kirk;Wen-mei W. Hwu

3853
Citations
Optimization principles and application performance evaluation of a multithreaded GPU using CUDA

Shane Ryoo;Christopher I. Rodrigues;Sara S. Baghsorkhi;Sam S. Stone

1320
Citations
A power controlled multiple access protocol for wireless packet networks

J.P. Monks;V. Bharghavan;W.-M.W. Hwu

993
Citations
Parboil: A Revised Benchmark Suite for Scientific and Commercial Throughput Computing

John A. Stratton;Christopher Rodrigues;I-Jui Sung;Nady Obeid

915
Citations
The superblock: an effective technique for VLIW and superscalar compilation

Wen-Mei W. Hwu;Scott A. Mahlke;William Y. Chen;Pohua P. Chang

883
Citations
IMPACT: an architectural framework for multiple-instruction-issue processors

Pohua P. Chang;Scott A. Mahlke;William Y. Chen;Nancy J. Warter

510
Citations
PUMA: A Programmable Ultra-efficient Memristor-based Accelerator for Machine Learning Inference

Aayush Ankit;Izzat El Hajj;Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti;Geoffrey Ndu

422
Citations
Accelerating advanced MRI reconstructions on GPUs

S. S. Stone;J. P. Haldar;S. C. Tsao;W. m. W. Hwu

412
Citations
An adaptive performance modeling tool for GPU architectures

Sara S. Baghsorkhi;Matthieu Delahaye;Sanjay J. Patel;William D. Gropp

412
Citations
GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition

Wen-mei W. Hwu

387
Citations
MCUDA: An Efficient Implementation of CUDA Kernels for Multi-core CPUs

John A. Stratton;Sam S. Stone;Wen-Mei W. Hwu

383
Citations
Program optimization space pruning for a multithreaded gpu

Shane Ryoo;Christopher I. Rodrigues;Sam S. Stone;Sara S. Baghsorkhi

382
Citations
Checkpoint Repair for High-Performance Out-of-Order Execution Machines

Wen-Mei W. Hwu;Yale N. Patt

357
Citations
DNNBuilder: an automated tool for building high-performance DNN hardware accelerators for FPGAs

Xiaofan Zhang;Junsong Wang;Chao Zhu;Yonghua Lin

341
Citations
Using profile information to assist classic code optimizations

Pohua P. Chang;Scott A. Mahlke;Wen-mei W. Hwu

340
Citations
CUDA-Lite: Reducing GPU Programming Complexity

Sain-Zee Ueng;Melvin Lathara;Sara S. Baghsorkhi;Wen-Mei W. Hwu

327
Citations
GPU clusters for high-performance computing

Volodymyr V. Kindratenko;Jeremy J. Enos;Guochun Shi;Michael T. Showerman

323
Citations
An effective GPU implementation of breadth-first search

Lijuan Luo;Martin Wong;Wen-mei Hwu

314
Citations
Achieving High Instruction Cache Performance With An Optimizing Compiler

W. W. Hwu;P. P. Chang

302
Citations
Programming Massively Parallel Processors

David B. Kirk;Wen-mei W. Hwu

274
Citations
The superblock: an effective technique for VLIW and superscalar compilation

Wen-Mei W. Hwu;Scott A. Mahlke;William Y. Chen;Pohua P. Chang

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Deming Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scott Mahlke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Thomas M. Conte Georgia Institute of Technology

Yale N. Patt The University of Texas at Austin

David I. August Princeton University

Sanjay J. Patel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bradley P. Sutton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Justin P. Haldar University of Southern California

Zhi-Pei Liang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Weng Cho Chew Purdue University West Lafayette

External Links

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