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77
Citations
21868
World Ranking
1285
National Ranking
682

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to high-performance microprocessor architecture.
  • 2001 - ACM Fellow For many outstanding seminal contributions to high performance microarchitecture and for leadership and teaching in computer science and engineering education.
  • 2000 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award For great ability, dedication, and success in developing computer science education, and for outstanding achievements as a teacher.
  • 1999 - W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society For your impact on the high performance microprocessor industry via a combination of important contributions to both engineering and education.
  • 1996 - ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award For important contributions to instruction level parallelism and superscalar processor design.
  • 1992 - IEEE Fellow For innovative contributions to high-speed computer architecture.

Overview

Yale N. Patt is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of computer science, with a focus on hardware and architecture, computer networks and communications, and gastroenterology as a subfield.

Their work includes multiple publications in topics such as parallel computing and optimization techniques, embedded systems design techniques, interconnection networks and systems, and celiac disease research and management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yale N. Patt include:

  • "Dynamic Merge Point Prediction," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Masthead," 2020, IEEE Micro
  • "The CORRECT First Course in Computing for Serious Students," 2024, Computer
  • "Deep Learning in Coeliac Disease: A Systematic Review on Novel Diagnostic approaches to disease diagnosis," 2024, Endoscopy

Frequent co-authors of Yale N. Patt are:

  • Stephen Pruett
  • Lizy K. John
  • Rubina Bahar
  • Natalie Enright Jerger
  • R. Mateosian

The most common venues for Yale N. Patt's publications include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Micro
  • Computer
  • Endoscopy

Yale N. Patt has been recognized with several awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2016. They were elected as Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions to high-performance microprocessor architecture. Other honors include being named an ACM Fellow in 2001 for seminal contributions to microarchitecture and teaching, and receiving the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2000 for achievements in computer science education.

Additional awards feature the W. Wallace McDowell Award from IEEE Computer Society in 1999 for impact on the microprocessor industry, the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1996 for contributions to instruction-level parallelism and superscalar processor design, and IEEE Fellow status since 1992 for innovative contributions to computer architecture.

Best Publications

  • Utility-Based Cache Partitioning: A Low-Overhead, High-Performance, Runtime Mechanism to Partition Shared Caches

    Moinuddin K. Qureshi;Yale N. Patt

  • Adaptive insertion policies for high performance caching

    Moinuddin K. Qureshi;Aamer Jaleel;Yale N. Patt;Simon C. Steely

  • Two-level adaptive training branch prediction

    Tse-Yu Yeh;Yale N. Patt

  • Alternative implementations of two-level adaptive branch prediction

    Tse-Yu Yeh;Yale N. Patt

  • Runahead execution: an alternative to very large instruction windows for out-of-order processors

    O. Mutlu;J. Stark;C. Wilkerson;Y.N. Patt

  • A comparison of dynamic branch predictors that use two levels of branch history

    Tse-Yu Yeh;Yale N. Patt

  • Improving GPU performance via large warps and two-level warp scheduling

    Veynu Narasiman;Michael Shebanow;Chang Joo Lee;Rustam Miftakhutdinov

  • Feedback Directed Prefetching: Improving the Performance and Bandwidth-Efficiency of Hardware Prefetchers

    S. Srinath;O. Mutlu;Hyesoon Kim;Y.N. Patt

  • Fairness via source throttling: a configurable and high-performance fairness substrate for multi-core memory systems

    Eiman Ebrahimi;Chang Joo Lee;Onur Mutlu;Yale N. Patt

  • Decision procedures for surjectivity and injectivity of parallel maps for tessellation structures

    S. Amoroso;Y. N. Patt

  • Scheduling algorithms for modern disk drives

    Bruce L. Worthington;Gregory R. Ganger;Yale N. Patt

  • A Case for MLP-Aware Cache Replacement

    Moinuddin K. Qureshi;Daniel N. Lynch;Onur Mutlu;Yale N. Patt

  • Accelerating critical section execution with asymmetric multi-core architectures

    M. Aater Suleman;Onur Mutlu;Moinuddin K. Qureshi;Yale N. Patt

  • Simultaneous subordinate microthreading (SSMT)

    Robert S. Chappell;Jared Stark;Sangwook P. Kim;Steven K. Reinhardt

  • Checkpoint Repair for High-Performance Out-of-Order Execution Machines

    Wen-Mei W. Hwu;Yale N. Patt

  • On-line extraction of SCSI disk drive parameters

    Bruce L. Worthington;Gregory R. Ganger;Yale N. Patt;John Wilkes

  • The V-Way Cache: Demand Based Associativity via Global Replacement

    Moinuddin K. Qureshi;David Thompson;Yale N. Patt

  • Increasing the instruction fetch rate via multiple branch prediction and a branch address cache

    Tse-Yu Yeh;Deborah T. Marr;Yale N. Patt

  • Single instruction stream parallelism is greater than two

    Michael Butler;Tse-Yu Yeh;Yale Patt;Mitch Alsup

  • The agree predictor: a mechanism for reducing negative branch history interference

    Eric Sprangle;Robert S. Chappell;Mitch Alsup;Yale N. Patt

  • Utility-Based Cache Partitioning

    Moinuddin K. Qureshi;Yale N. Patt

Frequent Co-Authors

Onur Mutlu
Onur Mutlu ETH Zurich
Hyesoon Kim
Hyesoon Kim Georgia Institute of Technology
Wen-mei W. Hwu
Wen-mei W. Hwu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gregory R. Ganger
Gregory R. Ganger Carnegie Mellon University
Moinuddin K. Qureshi
Moinuddin K. Qureshi Georgia Institute of Technology
Sanjay J. Patel
Sanjay J. Patel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chris Wilkerson
Chris Wilkerson Nvidia (United Kingdom)
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Google (United States)
Kevin Skadron
Kevin Skadron University of Virginia

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