Prof. Wen-mei W. Hwu is a Professor, Interim Department Head, and holds the Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Chief Scientist of the UIUC Parallel Computing Institute and Director of the IMPACT research group (www.crhc.uiuc.edu/Impact). He is the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microarchitecture (TCuARCH) and the chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Research Advisory Board (RAB). He co-directs the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) and serves as one of the principal investigators of the NSF Blue Waters Peta scale supercomputer. He published 200 technical papers and co-authored a popular textbook with David Kirk entitled “Programming Massively Parallel Processors -- a hands-on approach.” For his contributions, he received the ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the ACM/IEEE ISCA Influential Paper Award, the ACM/IEEE MICRO Test-of-Time Award, the ACM/IEEE CGO Test-of-Time Award, the IEEE Computer Society B. R. Rau Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM. Prof. Hwu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.