Presenter

Martin Burtscher is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. He received the BS/MS degree from ETH Zurich and the PhD degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Martin's current research focuses on the parallelization of irregular graph algorithms and other complex programs for GPUs as well as on the synthesis of high-speed lossy and lossless data-compression algorithms. He has co-authored about 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which have been cited around 7000 times. Martin is a distinguished member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.