Yale Patt
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-4085
Fax: (512) 471-1729
Email: patt@ece.utexas.edu
Dr. Patt’s Web site
Yale Patt earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1966. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1999.
Dr. Patt is a microarchitect who focuses his energies on two things: research and teaching. His research is about harnessing the more than 10 billion transistors that will soon be available on each microprocessor die (operating at frequencies in excess of 10 GHz) to produce much higher performance chips than are possible today. These chips control everything from the largest supercomputers to handheld computers. His research has already produced the HPS paradigm and the two-level branch predictor, both used by almost every microprocessor manufacturer in the computer industry, the block-structured ISA, helper threads, Runahead execution, wish branches, the v-way cache, etc.
His teaching is about preparing students to be effective engineers for the next 40 years. In that regard, he teaches the 400+ student freshman intro to computing, the senior course in computer design and the advanced graduate course in microarchitecture.
Dr. Patt has received the very highest accolades in his field for both research and teaching: the 1996 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for his research in computer architecture, and the 2000 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for his teaching. He has also received the IEEE Emmanuel Piore Technical Field medal for information processing in 1995, the IEEE W.W.McDowell award in 1999, the IEEE Charles Babbage Award in 2005, and the IEEE 3rd Millenium Medal.
He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM. Research interests:- Microprocessor architecture in the many core era
- Parallelism and superscalar processor design
- Seriously heterogeneous chip multiprocessors
- How to help students learn