[Computer Science Department], [Trinity College Dublin] [Personnel]

David Gregg

Job Title: Professor

Qualifications: MSc, Dr. techn., FTCD

Research Areas: Software performance optimization, embedded systems

Courses: CS2014/5 Systems Programming, CS3014 Concurrent Systems I

Location: Lloyd Institute 130

Phone: (+353 1 896) 3693

e-mail: David.Gregg at cs.tcd.ie

Postal Address: Prof. David Gregg, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

About Me

I'm a professor in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. My current research deals with low-resource techniques for deep neural networks, compilers, algorithms, and software optimization for multicore and vector computers.

My Research interests

Accelerating deep neural networks on embedded systems
Program analysis
Computer arithmetic
Compiler optimization
Processor microarchitecture
Low energy embedded systems
Virtual machines for implementing high-level languages
Multi-core parallelism
Instruction level parallelism
Vector parallelism
Domain Specific Languages
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
Experimental algorithmics

Professional Activities

PACT 2020 Programme Committee
IEEE TPDS Associate Editor
ISC-HPC 2020 AI/ML track Programme Committee
Fastpath 2019 Programme Committee
EDLA 2019 Programme Committee
ISC-HPC 2019 AI/ML track Programme Committee
Steering Committee, Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computing, 2018-
CPC 2018 Workshop, Workshop Chair
PACT 2018 Programme Committee
PACT 2017 Programme Committee
CC 2017 Programme Committee
ICOOOLPS 2017 Programme Committee
HiPEAC Autumn 2016 Computing Systems Week organizer
ACM TACO 2016 Board of Distinguished Reviewers
PPPJ 2016 Programme Committee
ICOOLPS 2016 Programme Committee
ACM TACO 2015 Board of Distinguished Reviewers
PPPJ 2015 Programme Committee
VEE 2015 Programme Committee
CC 2015 Programme Committee
ACM TACO 2014 Board of Distinguished Reviewers
PPPJ 2014 Programme Committee
ACM TACO 2013 Board of Distinguished Reviewers
PLDI 2013 External Review Committee
Selection committee for SIGPLAN 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
PPPJ 2012 Programme Committee
VEE 2012 Programme Committee
PLDI 2011 Programme Committee
CGO 2011 Programme Committee
CC 2011 Programme Committee
HiPEAC 2011 Programme Committee
PACT 2010 Programme Committee
SAC 2010 Emb. Sys. Track Programme Committee
PACT 2009 Programme Committee
COCV 2009 Programme Committee
PLDI 2009 External Review Committee
PLDI 2009 Local Arrangements Chair
ASPLOS 2009 Programmme Committee
WCSA 2008 Programme Committee
VEE 2008 General Chair
CC 2008 Programmme Committee
PPPJ 2007 Programmme Committee
PPPJ 2006 Programmme Committee
VEE 2005, 2006, 2007 Steering Committee
IVME 2004 Programme Committee
SCOPES 2004 Programme Committee
EI Proof of Concept Funding Panel, Spring 2003-Summer 2004
IVME 2003 General Chair
Euroforth 2003 Programme Committee
SCOPES 2003 Programme Committee
Euroforth 2002 Programme Committee

Postdocs

Graduate Research Students

Barbara Barabasz (PhD)
James Garland (PhD)
Kaveena Persand (PhD)
Zain Uddin (MSc)

Previous Research Students

With current affiliation where known.

Shixiong Xu, PhD. (Cadence)
Mark Purcell, MSc. (IBM Research)
Aravind Vasudevan, PhD (Synopsys)
Martin Marinov, PhD (SIG)
Andrew Anderson, PhD (TCD)
Servesh Muralidharan, PhD (CERN)
Robert Crosbie, PhD (Amazon)
Peter Lavin, PhD (TCD)
Jason McCandless, PhD (Google)
R. Scott Manley, PhD. (Cray)
Paul Biggar, PhD. (Founder of CircleCI)
Kevin Williams, PhD. (The Now Factory)
Nicholas Nash, PhD. (SIG)
Yunhe Shi, PhD.
Colm McSweeney, MSc. (Synopsys)
Owen Callanan, PhD. (Dell Cloud Computing R&D Centre)
Daniel Clarke, MSc. (Irdeto)
Andrew Beatty, MSc. (Galway-Mayo IT)
Richard Bannister, MSc. (Amazon)
Kevin Casey, PhD. (NUI Maynooth)
Brian Davis, MSc. (NUI Galway)

University Duties

Global Director for Computer Science, 2020-.
Junior Academic Progressions Committee, 2015-2018.

School administrative duties

Head, Discipline of Software and Systems, 2018-.
SCSS Strategic Planning Group, 2015-2016.
Head, Discipline of Software Systems, 2014-2018.
MSc in Computer Science Course Review Committee, 2014-2015.
Course Director, Structured PhD Programme, 2011-.
School Research Studentships Coordinator, 2011-.
Computer Science Programme Course Committee, 2011-.
Structured PhD Programme Review Committee 2011.
PhD exam chair 2008-.
Coordinator of Research Methods programme for Postgraduate Research Students (with Prof. Remenyi) 2007.
Representative of the junior academic staff on the Executive Commitee of the School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2005-2007.
Department of Computer Science PhD Workshop 2003-2006.
New PhD students' introductary event 2004-2006.
Coordinator of the "20/20 Vision Group" on the long-term future of the School of Computer Science and Statistics 2005-2006.

Publications

An auto-generated list of my publications can be found from here.

You can also check out my DBLP page.

Useful Links

The SquirrelFish JavaScript engine is a very nice example of the use of some of our research on interpreters in practical applications.
I am a member of the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC).
I am a member of Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

[Personnel] [Computer Science] [Trinity College Dublin]
URL: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/David.Gregg/
David.Gregg at cs.tcd.ie