Calvin Lin
Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas, Austin
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Teaching
CS314H
Turing Scholars Program
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Students
Curtis Dunham
Quang Duong
Carson Molder
Molly O'Neil
Chirag Sakhuja (PhD 2024)
Zhan Shi (PhD 2020)
Kai Wang (PhD 2020)
Hao Wu (PhD 2020)
Anjana Subramanian (MS 2019)
Pawan Joshi (MS 2019)
Ashay Rane (PhD 2019)
Jia Chen (PhD 2019)
Akanksha Jain (PhD 2016)
Oswaldo Olivo (PhD 2016)
Renee St. Amant (PhD 2014)
Apollo Ellis (MS 2011)
Paul Navratíl (PhD 2010)
Karthik Murthy (MS 2010)
Alison Norman (PhD 2010)
Walter Chang (PhD 2010)
Ben Hardekopf (PhD 2009)
Teck B. Tok (PhD 2007)
Adam Brown (MS 2007)
Ibrahim Hur (PhD 2006)
Sam Guyer (PhD 2003)
Rich Cardone (PhD 2002)
Daniel Jiménez (PhD 2002)
Kent Spaulding (MS 1998)
Frank Kuehndel (MS 1998)
Publications
Honors and Awards: Teaching
Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, 2023-2024
William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, 2019-2020
USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Central Region, 2018
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2015
Provost's Senior Teaching Fellow, 2015
UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2013
Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Central Region, 2013
University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, 2011
USA Ultimate Coach of the Year, South Region, 2010
College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2003
Honors and Awards: Research
2023 CGO Test of Time Award
for "Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with B. Hardekopf,
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), 2011.
IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023
"Mockingjay: Effective Mimicry of Belady's MIN Policy," with I Shah and A. Jain,
IEEE Micro "Top picks from Microarchitecture Conferences issue"
2023,
Best Paper Award Finalist
28th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
"Effective Mimicry of Belady's MIN Policy,"
with I. Shah and A. Jain, 2022
Micro Top Picks 2022 Honorable Mention
International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS),
"A Hierarchical Neural Model of Data Prefetching,"
with Z. Shi, A. Jain, K. Swersky, M. Hashemi, and P. Raganathan, 2021
Winner 2nd Championship Value Prediction (Unlimited Category)
"Combining Branch History and Value History For Improved Value Prediction,"
with C. Sakhuja, A. Subramanian, P. Joshi, and A. Jain, 2019
2019 HPCA Test of Time Award
for "Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons," with D. Jiménez,
Proceedings of the 7th Int'l Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture.
January, 2001. pp. 197--206.
Winner 2nd Cache Replacement Competition
"Hawkeye: Leveraging Belady's Algorithm for Improved Cache Replacement,"
with A. Jain, 2017
Micro Top Picks 2017 Honorable Mention
43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA),
"Leveraging Belady's Algorithm for Improved Cache Replacement,"
with A. Jain, 2016
Best Paper Award Finalist
46th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
"Linearizing Irregular Memory Accesses for Improved Correlated Prefetching,"
with A. Jain, 2013
Best Paper Award
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EPGV).
"Dynamic Scheduling for Large-Scale Distributed-Memory Ray Tracing," with P. Navratil, H. Childs, and D. Fussell. May, 2012.
Best Paper Award
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO).
"Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with B. Hardekopf, 2011.
Best Paper Award Finalist
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
"A Comprehensive Approach to DRAM Power Management," with Ibrahim Hur, February 2008, pp. 305--316.
UT Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2009
Ben Hardekopf (advisee)
Best Paper Award
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI).
"The Ant and the Grasshopper: Fast and Accurate Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code," with Ben Hardekopf, 2007.
IBM Faculty Partnership Award
2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06
Best Paper Award Finalist
39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
"Memory Prefetching Using Adaptive Stream Detection," with Ibrahim Hur, 2006
IEEE Micro Top Picks
"Adaptive History-Based Memory Schedulers for Modern Microprocessors," with Ibrahim Hur,
IEEE Micro "Top picks from Microarchitecture Conferences issue"
26(1), January/February 2006, pp. 22--29.
Best Paper Award
37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
2004. "Adaptive History-Based Memory Schedulers," with Ibrahim Hur.
Faculty Fellow
2000-2001, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
NSF CAREER Award
2000-2004
Last updated: May 9, 2024