Vince Weaver Brief Biography

Vince Weaver brief biography

Vince Weaver obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2000. He went on to work at a startup that made tablet PCs; this lasted until the dot-com crash of 2001. After a brief time spent writing web-interfaces for legacy Fortran models for the Army, he decided to go to grad school. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2010, where he focused on Computer Architecture. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, working in Jack Dongarra's Innovative Computing Laboratory, where he was a primary developer of the widely-used PAPI performance analysis library. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine.

Awards and Honors:

"Most beauteous visuals" in the 2005 International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Honorable Mention, 2009 Cornell University Library Book Collection Contest
2015 University of Maine Engineering Early Career Teaching Award
MEMSYS'16 Most Gratuitous Use of Umlauts in a Scientific Presentation

Other arbitrary information:

My PhD advisor was Sally A. Mckee
As a grad student I was the sysadmin for our group; we had 169 machines with a total of 468 cores representing 10 architectures. (Included in that total are four large clusters that I built and maintained). For more details see here
I can program in over 20 kinds of assembly language.
I attended Cornell ECE grad student bowling as often as possible.
For more information, you can visit my personal web page
My Erdös Number is 4: V.M. Weaver -> J. Dongarra -> G.H. Golub -> A.J. Hoffman -> P. Erdös
Academic Genealogy, if you're into that kind of thing (I got most of this info from Mark Corner who is some sort of Academic Cousin once-removed from me). Vincent M. Weaver -> Sally A. McKee -> William Wulf -> Alan Batson -> Len Riddiford -> Sir Mark Oliphant -> Ernest Rutherford (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1908) -> Joseph J. Thomson (Nobel Prize in Physics 1906) -> John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh, Nobel Prize in Physics 1904) and Edward J. Routh -> William Hopkins -> Adam Sedgwick (geologist; also was advisor for Charles Darwin) -> Thomas Jones -> John Cranke
Cancelled my membership in the ACM and IEEE due to their horrible handling of the alleged peer-review misconduct (leading to a grad student's death) at the ISCA'19 conference.

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