B. Ramakrishna Rau Award

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    •  15 May 2025

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About the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award

Ramakrishna RauEstablished in memory of B. Ramakrishna Rau, and awarded in recognition of his distinguished career in promoting and expanding the use of innovative computer microarchitecture techniques, including his innovation in compiler technology, his leadership in academic and industrial computer architecture, and his extremely high personal and ethical standards.

The B. Ramakrishna Rau award will be presented “in recognition of substantial contributions in the field of computer microarchitecture and compiler code generation.”

The candidate will have made an outstanding, innovative contribution or contributions to microarchitecture, use of novel microarchitectural techniques or compiler/architecture interfacing. It is hoped, but not required, that the winner will have also contributed to the computer microarchitecture community through teaching, mentoring, or community service. This award will consist of a certificate and a $2,000 honorarium.

The winner will be announced and invited to present a paper and/or presentation at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture.  The Rau award will be presented annually and honored to a single recipient.

The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements by the award deadline.

 

2024 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award Committee Chair

Daniel A. Jiménez, Texas A&M University

 

Past Recipients
2024
Todd Austin

For seminal contributions to microarchitecture, performance analysis, and innovations in secure architectures.
2023
Joel S. Emer

For pioneering contributions to microarchitectural analysis, microarchitecture features, and for bringing clarity to the field with fundamental concepts and terminology.
2022
Scott A. Mahlke

For contributions to compiler technology for instruction-level parallelism and application-specific architectures.
2021
Daniel A. Jiménez

For contributions to neural branch prediction in microprocessors.
2020
Andre Seznec

For pioneering contributions to cache design and branch prediction.
2018
Ravi Nair

For contributions to branch prediction in processors, microarchitecture techniques in heterogeneous processing, microarchitecture support for virtual machines, and near-memory processing.
2017
Guang R. Gao

For contributions to compiler techniques and microarchitectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallel computing.
2016
Gurindar S. Sohi

For pioneering techniques enabling instruction-level parallelism and speculative multithreading via cooperative resource scheduling between offline compiler and runtime micro-architecture elements.
2015
Robert P. Colwell

For contributions to critical analysis of microarchitecture and the development of the Pentium Pro processor.
2014
Wen-mei W. Hwu

For contributions to Instruction Level Parallelism technology, including compiler optimization, program representation, microarchitecture, and applications.
2013
Kemal Ebcioglu

For contributions to VLIW, instruction-level-parallelism, binary translation,Java performance, and service to the community
2012
Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher

For the development of trace scheduling compilation and pioneering work in VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures.
2011
Yale N. Patt

For significant contributions and inspiring leadership in the microarchitecture community with respect to teaching, mentoring, research, and service.

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