Bio

Tom Conte holds a joint appointment in the schools of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and received his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign. Conte's research is in the area of computer architecture, with special emphasis on novel ways to compute. He is widely published and holds 35 patents. Since 2012, he has co-chaired the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) “Rebooting Computing” Initiative (rebootingcomputing.ieee.org). In 2015, he served as president of the IEEE Computer Society. Conte is a Fellow of the IEEE and is the past editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization, and the Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism. He currently directs a group of graduate students studying novel computer architectures (tinker.cc.gatech.edu).