John D. Owens

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John D. Owens
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, BS (1995)
Stanford University, PhD (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Thesis Computer Graphics on a Stream Architecture  (2003)
Doctoral advisorWilliam J. Dally and Pat Hanrahan

John D. Owens is an American computer engineer, known for his work in GPU computing. He is Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis.[1]

Education

John Owens received his Ph.D in electrical engineering in 2003 from Standord University under the supervision of William J. Dally and Pat Hanrahan.[2]

Awards and honors

Owens was inducted as an IEEE Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to heterogeneous parallel computing".[3] In 2021 he was also inducted as a AAAS Fellow "for fundamental contributions to commodity parallel computing, particularly in the development of GPU algorithms, data structures, and applications."[4]

In 2007, his paper "Scan Primitives for GPU Computing" won the Best paper award at Graphics Hardware.[5]

Selected publications

  • Owens, John D.; Luebke, David; Govindaraju, Naga; Harris, Mark; Krüger, Jens; Legohn, Aaron; Purcell, Timothy (March 2007), "A Survey of General‐Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware" (PDF), Computer Graphics Forum, 25 (1): 80–113.
  • Owens, John D.; Houston, Mike; Luebke, David; Green, Simon; Stone, John E.; Phillips, James C. (2008-05-01), GPU Computing (PDF), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 879–899, retrieved 2021-12-30.
  • Rixner, Scoot; Dally, William J.; Kapasi, Ujval; Mattson, Peter; Owens, John D. (2000), "Memory Access Scheduling" (PDF), Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture: 126–138.

References

  1. ^ "Directory". ece.ucdavis.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  2. ^ John D. Owens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ 2022 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS (PDF), November 22, 2022, retrieved 2021-11-24
  4. ^ AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows, November 24, 2020, retrieved 2021-12-30
  5. ^ "Graphics Hardware 2007". www.graphicshardware.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2021-12-30.

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