Scholar
Torsten Hoefler
Google Scholar ID: DdBvcBEAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Citations & Impact
Citations
19,190
H-index
63
i10-index
256
Publications
20
Co-authors
160
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Member of Academia Europaea
- ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2019)
- Youngest recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award (oldest career award in HPC)
- Inaugural ISC Jack Dongarra Award (2023)
- ETH Zurich Latsis Prize (2015)
- SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize (2012)
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers Award (2013) and Award of Excellence (2019)
- Indiana University Young Alumni Award (2014) and Distinguished Alumni Award (2023)
- Max Planck-Humboldt Medal (Germany)
- Over 300 peer-reviewed publications
- Co-author of the MPI 3 specification
- Seven best paper awards at SC (2010, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Best paper awards at IPDPS'15, HPDC'15/16, OOPSLA'16, etc.
- Elected to ACM SIGHPC Steering Committee since 2013 (re-elected in 2016, 2019, 2022)
Background
- Full Professor at ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science
- Director of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL)
- Chief Architect for Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center
- Long-term Consultant to Microsoft in large-scale AI and networking
- Research focuses on performance of parallel computing systems, spanning architecture, programming, and algorithms
- Active in Weather/Climate simulations and Distributed Deep Learning
- Led numerous funded projects, including an ERC Starting Grant and an ERC Consolidator Grant on Data-Centric Parallel Programming
