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Yale N. Patt

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yale Patt is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, and a Distinguished University Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • High Performance Substrate
  • High Performance Systems
Current Research:

The focus of his research is generally five to ten years beyond what industry provides at that point in time. His rationale has always been that he does not do revenue shipments, preferring to produce knowledge that will be useful to future revenue shipments and, more importantly, graduates who will design those future products.

Select Publications

with M Hashemi, D Marr, and D Carmean. July 2015. Efficient Execution of Bursty Applications.

with Eiman Ebrahimi, Chang Joo Lee, and Onur Mutlu. April 2012. Fairness via Source Throttling: A Configurable and High-Performance Fairness Substrate for Multi-Core Memory Systems.

with Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, and Veynu Narasiman. October 2011. Prefetch-Aware Memory Controllers.

with Hyesoon Kim, Jose Joao, Onur Mutlu, Chang Joo Lee, and Robert Cohn. September 2009. Virtual Program Counter (VPC) Prediction: Very Low-Cost Indirect Branch Prediction using Conditional Branch Prediction Hardware.

with Jose A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, and Hyesoon Kim. June 2008. Dynamic Predication of Indirect Jumps.

Awards & Honors

  • 2014 - Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • 1996 - IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award
  • 2016 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2000 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
  • 1995 - IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award,
  • 2013 - IEEE Harry H. Goode Award
  • 1999 - IEEE Wallace W. McDowell Award
  • 2011 - IEEE B. Ramakrishna Rau Award
  • 2005 - IEEE Charles Babbage Award
  • 2017 - Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship

Contact Info

Yale N. Patt
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(512) 471-4085
EER 5.802