Prof. dr. ing Lucian Vintan
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Membru al Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice din Romania 
email:lucian.vintan@ulbsibiu.roweb: http://webspace.ulbsibiu.ro/lucian.vintan/office:Room IE-111

1 - Studii
  • 1982-1987: Facultatea de Electrotehnica, specializarea de Automatica si Calculatoare, Universitatea "Politehnica" Timisoara (la acea vreme Institutul Politehnic "Traian Vuia"). Teza de licenta intitulata: "Sistem multimicroprocesor MC 68000 realizat in jurul magistralei VME standard", coordonator: prof.univ.dr.ing. Vasile POP (notata cu 10)
  • 1993-1997: Doctorat in specialitatea "Calculatoare", Ord.Min.Inv. 5374/20.11.1997 (cu teza "Contributii la optimizarea arhitecturilor cu paralelism la nivelul instructiunilor"), la Universitatea "Politehnica" Timisoara, Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare (conducator stiintific: prof. univ. dr. ing. Crisan STRUGARU, membru de onoare al Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice din Romania, laureat al Premiului "Traian Vuia" al Academiei Romane in 1983 - robot industrial REMT, creator al microsistemului Tim-S, al unor sisteme de prelucrare informatii sateliti NOAA, testoare etc., v. http://www.astr.ro/index.php?page=aboutmember&id=270)
2 - Experienta profesionala si manageriala
  • 1987-1991: inginer specialist testare si diagnoza minisisteme de calcul la I.I.R.U.C. (Intreprinderea pt. Intretinerea si Repararea Utilajelor de Calcul) Bucuresti, sectia "Sisteme si minisisteme de calcul" / filiala Sibiu; 1991-1994: inginer specialist testare si diagnoza mini si microsisteme de calcul la S.C. Praxis Computer SRL, Sibiu
  • 1991 - 2000: asistent univ./sef lucrari/conferentiar universitar, Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu, Facultatea de inginerie, Catedra de calculatoare, disciplinele: "Microprocesoare avansate si sisteme multiprocesor", "Proiectarea cu microprocesoare"
  • 1999 - 2002: prodecan al Facultatii de inginerie "Hermann Oberth" (cercetare stiintifica), Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
  • 2000 - prezent: profesor universitar (Ord. Ministrului MEdC nr.3772/10.05.2000), Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu, Facultatea de Inginerie, Catedra de Calculatoare, disciplinele: "Sisteme cu microprocesoare", "Simularea si optimizarea arhitecturilor de calcul", "Arhitecturi avansate"
  • 2001 - prezent: conducator de doctorat in domeniul "Calculatoare si tehnologia informatiei" la Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu, Facultatea de Inginerie, Catedra de Calculatoare (Ord. Ministrului MEdC nr.5288/28.12.2001; reconfirmat prin O.M. nr. 1805/20.08.2007). Momentan conduc 7 doctoranzi (doi fosti doctoranzi au obtinut titlul de doctor in stiinta calculatoarelor in anii 2007 respectiv 2008-Cum Laudae).
  • 1996 - prezent: Membru al Consiliului Facultatii de Inginerie, Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
  • 2000 - 2008: Membru al Senatului Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu
  • 2004 - prezent: Director al "Centrului de cercetare pentru arhitecturi avansate de procesare a informatiei" (CCAAPI) din cadrul Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" Sibiu - a se vedea http://acaps.ulbsibiu.ro/research.php (decizia Rectorului ULBS nr.260/06.10.2004)
3 - Activitatea stiintifica si didactica
  • Am adus contributii stiintifice originale in urmatoarele domenii: algoritmi avansati de aritmetica binara cu implementare in hardware; microprogramare dinamica (accelerator limbaj Fortran 77 pe minisistemul I102F/4M, compatibil PDP11/45); metode analitice de evaluare si optimizare ale unor microarhitecturi avansate; modelarea si simularea unor arhitecturi avansate de cache-uri (algoritmi de control adaptiv al acestora, ex. "Selective Victim Cache"); modelarea si simularea unor noi scheme de predictie dinamica a branch-urilor (spre ex., conceptul de "neural dynamic branch prediction" l-am introdus in premiera mondiala, fiind recunoscut ca atare si des citat - peste 80 citari internationale pana in 2007 - de catre grupuri prestigioase de cercetare academice si industriale - ex. Univ. Berkeley, Rutgers, Purdue, Virginia etc. din SUA, Politecnica Barcelona din SPANIA etc. respectiv compania INTEL; v. in continuare paragrafele 4 si 5); dezvoltarea unei metodologii de identificare a branch-urilor dificil predictibile (nepolarizate, "unbiased") si extinderea contextului relevant in vederea predictibilitatii acestora; branch-uri precalculabile dinamic (citat si dezvoltat ulterior in special in arhitecturi de tip Simultaneous MultiThreading - SMT); dezvoltarea unor metrici de caracterizare a gradului de aleatorism al secventelor de simboluri, bazate pe compresibilitate, entropie discreta, predictibilitate Hidden Markov Models-HMM, complexitate Kolmogorov-Chaitin; determinarea gradelor maxime de paralelism la nivel de instructiuni si a influentelor diferitelor limitari asupra acestora; modelarea si simularea unor procese predictive si speculative, implementabile in microarhitecturile avansate (ex. ideea originala de predictie dinamica centrata pe contextul CPU - ca alternativa a centrarii pe instructiuni cum s-a propus anterior - publicata in revista cotata ISI, IEE Proc.Comp.& Digit. Techn., UK, iulie 2005); modelarea si simularea reutilizarii dinamice respectiv a predictiei valorilor instructiunilor in arhitecturile superscalare si SMT; modelarea si implementarea unor procese de predictie a contextului in aplicatii de tip "ubiquitous computing" (in vederea proactivitatii sistemului, bazat pe procese stohastice Markov, HMM, retele neuronale etc.); clasificarea automata a documentelor prin metode de tip nucleu (algoritmi de invatare de tip "Support Vector Machine").
  • Publicarea a peste 65 de articole stiintifice in reviste de specialitate din strainatate ori in cadrul unor conferinte stiintifice internationale sub egida IEEE, IEE, ACM etc., dintre care peste 20 acreditate ISI Thomson (Journals); (Romania, S.U.A., Portugalia, Italia, Austria, Cehia, Ungaria, Polonia, Germania, Olanda, China, Spania, Coreea etc.). Pentru detalii a se consulta LISTA LUCRARILOR (SELECTIE), anexata acestui Curriculum Vitae.
  • Publicarea a peste 45 de articole stiintifice in reviste de specialitate din tara ori la sesiuni stiintifice nationale, majoritatea ca unic sau prim autor
  • Publicarea a 6 monografii stiintifice de specialitate: "ARHITECTURI DE PROCESARE CU PARALELISM LA NIVELUL INSTRUCTIUNILOR", Editura Academiei Romane, 264 pag., Bucuresti, 2000; "MICROARHITECTURI DE PROCESARE A INFORMATIEI", Editura Tehnica, 312 pag., Bucuresti, 2000; "PREDICTIE SI SPECULATIE IN MICROPROCESOARELE AVANSATE", Editura Matrix Rom, 90 pag., Bucuresti, 2002; "SIMULAREA SI OPTIMIZAREA ARHITECTURILOR DE CALCUL IN APLICATII PRACTICE", Editura Matrix Rom, 443 pag., Bucuresti, 2003 - distinsa cu Premiul "Tudor Tanasescu" al Academiei Romane, decernat in 2005, "A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO PREDICT UNBIASED BRANCHES" (in Engleza, 111 pg.), "Lucian Blaga" University Press, Sibiu, 2007 . Ultima mea carte publicata este intitulata "PREDICTION TECHNIQUES IN ADVANCED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES" (in Engleza, cu o prefata de Prof. dr. Theo Ungerer), Matrix Rom Publishing House, Bucharest 2007 (300 pagini - comanda online la: www.matrixrom.ro)
  • Publicarea a 3 cursuri universitare si a unei carti de aplicatii practice pentru studenti
  • Am finalizat cu succes 8 granturi nationale de cercetare stiintifica in calitate de DIRECTOR DE PROIECT (CNCSIS, ANSTI, MCT, CNCSU), castigate in perioada 1998-2007 pe baza de competitie, cu punctaje f. bune (detalii in LISTA LUCRARILOR - SELECTIE, anexata acestui Curriculum Vitae)
  • Conduc 7 doctoranzi care desfasoara activitati de cercetare stiintifica in domeniile microarhitecturilor avansate, web mining respectiv sistemelor paralele si distribuite de prelucrare a informatiei. Doi fosti doctoranzi (ing. D. Morariu, ing. A. Gellert) au obtinut titlul de doctor in stiinta calculatoarelor.
4 - Recunoastere nationala si internationala
  • Membru in comitetul tehnic al organizatiei internationale "The International Association of Science and Technology for Development" (IASTED), Canada, comisia "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems" (din anul 2000)
  • "Visiting Researcher" (cercetator invitat) la Universitatea din Hertfordshire, Marea Britanie, (1996, 3 luni, am activat in grupul de arhitecturi avansate de procesare a informatiei condus de catre prof. Gordon B. Steven; am lucrat aici la proiectul HSA - Hatfield Superscalar Architecture)
  • "Visiting Researcher" la Universitatea din Augsburg, Germania - cercetari in domeniul "context prediction in ubiquitous computing" (2003, 3 luni, finantare prin DAAD NATO, Germania, am lucrat in Institutul de cercetari al profesorului Theo Ungerer la proiectul "Smart Doorplates" - a se vedea pt. detalii http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/info3/research/)
  • Membru al Comitetului International de Program al conferintelor internationale: * 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS '01), Anaheim California (USA), August 21-24, 2001 * The 20th IASTED International Multi-Conference - Applied Informatics AI 2002, 18-21 February, 2002, Innsbruck, Austria * 14th IASTED International Conf. Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), MIT, Cambridge, USA, November 4-6, 2002 * The 21st IASTED International Multi-Conference - Applied Informatics AI 2003, 10-13 February, 2003, Innsbruck, Austria * 22nd IASTED Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks PDCN 2004, February 17-19, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria * 16th IASTED International Conf. Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2004), MIT, Cambridge, USA, November 9-11, 2004 * SACCS2004 - 8-th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science, October 22-23, 2004, Iasi, Romania ETC.
  • Referent al revistelor stiintifice de specialitate (selectiv): "IEEE Transactions on Computers" (2008 TC Reviewers List," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 139-144, Jan. 2009, doi:10.1109/TC.2009.1 - http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TC.2009.1), "IEE Proceedings. Computer and Digital Techniques", Anglia (2001, 2003), "International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control" (IJCCC, 2007), "Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI). Advances in Intelligent and Distributed Computing", Volume 78, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2008), "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience", John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.(#CPE-08-0006, 2008); Membru al Comitetului editorial al Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iaşi, Automatic Control and Computer Science Section - v. http://www.ace.tuiasi.ro/index.php?page=678 etc.
  • Consultant oficial pe probleme de stiinta si ingineria calculatoarelor al companiei Siemens AG CT IC, Munchen, Germania (2002-2006)
  • Expert al Consiliului National pentru Cercetarea Stiintifica din Invatamantul Superior (CNCSIS) pentru cercetarea stiintifica universitara din domeniul "Stiinta Calculatoarelor" precum si pentru evaluarea granturilor din domeniile "Calculatoare & Tehnologia Informatiei" (2001 - prezent, v. http://www.cncsis.ro/panelev.php); Membru al grupului consultativ al Presedintelui CNCSIS
  • Numeroase citari nationale si, mai ales, internationale (peste 150 de citari internationale pana in anul 2007) ale lucrarilor publicate, multe in publicatii de prestigiu international, acreditate ISI Thomson Journals precum "IEEE Transactions on Computers", "ACM Transactions on..." etc. (v. mai jos, paragraful 5). Spre exemplu, Dr. Daniel Jimenez (Rutgers University, USA) scrie intr-unul din articolele sale stiintifice publicate intr-o revista de nivel stiintific maxim (ACM Transactions on Computers, 2/2005): "Dynamic branch prediction with neural methods was first proposed by Vintan." Dr. Alan Fern et al (Purdue University, USA) - relativ la predictoarele inteligente introduse de mine in domeniul microarhitecturilor evoluate - scriu intr-un alt articol de ridicata valoare stiintifica (publicat in revista Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, 4/2006): "...prior to our original Dynamic Decision Tree Predictor there was only one such proposal (Vintan)." Tarjan D.& Skadron K.(University of Virginia, USA): "The idea of that perceptron predictor was originally introduced by Vintan." in ACM Trans. on Archit. 3/2005. Dr Singer et al, (HiPEAC 2007 Conf., Gent, Belgia): "Vintan pioneers the idea of using perceptrons for branch prediction". Kirby et al. (2007): "The earliest proposal for using neural networks to predict branches we are aware of was by Vintan."
  • Membru in zeci de comisii de doctorat respectiv de concurs (referent) pentru posturi de profesor univ. si conferentiar univ. (Bucuresti, Timisoara, Iasi, Craiova, Arad, Sibiu, Suceava etc.)
  • Din 2004, singurul roman activand in... Romania, mentionat in "Researchers in Computer Architecture and Compilers", vezi: http://www2.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/whoswho/photos.html respectiv in "WWW Computer Architecture Page", vezi: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/people.html
  • Expert independent al Comisiei Europene (EC) in domeniul stiintei si ingineriei calculatoarelor; Activitati: evaluare proiect FP6/FP7 "High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers" - HiPEAC 1 si 2, la LAquila, Italia, iulie 2005 si 2006; Barcelona, Spania, noiembrie 2005 si 2007, martie 2009; Ghent, Belgia, noiembrie 2006; Brussels, iunie 2007, octombrie 2008, iunie 2010; Paphos, Cipru, ianuarie 2009; Munchen, iunie 2009; Pisa, Italia, ianuarie 2010 - www.hipeac.net. Expert evaluator al EC FP7-ICT-Call-1, STREPs Evaluation, Computing Systems, 18-22 iunie 2007, Brussels; Expert evaluator al EC FP7-ICT Evaluation, Computing Systems, 25-29 Mai 2009, Brussels; Expert evaluator al EC FP7-FET Open, 6-10 iulie 2009, Brussels
  • Membru al "Comisiei de stiinte ingineresti" a CNCSIS, in perioada octombrie 2005 - decembrie 2008 (www.cncsis.ro)
  • Membru in Comisia de “Ingineria sistemelor, calculatoare si tehnologia informatiei” din cadrul “Consiliului National de Atestare a Titlurilor, Diplomelor si Certificatelor Universitare” (CNATDCU), cf. OMEdC 3904/10.05.2006, Anexa 3
  • Invitat sa conferentieze asupra cercetarilor proprii in domeniul microarhitecturilor de calcul la Universitatea din Delft ("Predictive Processes implemented in Advanced Architectures" - http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/cecoll/), Olanda, 2007 (+Prof. Stamatis Vassiliadis, fost Chair in Computer Engineering Dpt.) respectiv la Universitatea din Augsburg, Germania, (Prof. Theo Ungerer) February 2010 ("Anticipatory Techniques in Advanced Processor Architectures" - http://www.math.uni-augsburg.de/Math-Net/VK/docs/2010/02/18_Do_07_00.html)
  • Membru in International Program Committees (IPC) la conferintele stiintifice: High Performance Computing & Simulation - HPC&S 2005 in Latvia; HPC&S 2006 in Bonn, Germania; HPC&S 2009 in Leipzig; Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference - ACSAC 2006, in China (Shangai); RoEduNet, Sibiu 2006, 2010 si Craiova 2007; Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2007, in Zurich, Elvetia; Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference - ACSAC 2007, in Seoul, Coreea de Sud; EuroPar 2007 in Rennes, Franta; High Performance Computing & Simulation - HPC&S 2007, in Cehia (Praga); International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing - IDC 2007 si SINTES 2007 in Romania (Craiova); SACCS 2007 in Romania (Iasi); IASTED PDCS 2007, Cambridge Massachusettes, SUA; ICCCC 2008 Oradea; ARCS 2008, Dresden, Germany; IASTED PDCN 2008, Innsbruck, Austria; ACSAC 2008, Taiwan; IDC 2008, Italia; DTA 2008, China; ARCS 2009, Delft, Olanda; ARCS 2010 Hannover, Germania; SAMOS Workshop 2009, 2010; International Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS-17), Bucharest 2009; India - AST 2010; IDC 2010 - Maroc; DTA 2010 - Filipine, ICAdET 2010 - Oradea etc.
  • Co-editor al capitolului "Topic 4. High-Performance Architectures and Compilers" din volumul "Euro-Par 2007, Parallel Processing", 13-th International Euro-Par Conference, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4641 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74465-8
  • Prezentari în lucrarile “Who’s Who in Romania”, Ediţia princeps, Pegasus Press, Bucureşti, 2002; “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2007”, 9-th Edition, Marquis Who’s Who; Enciclopedia personalitatilor din Romania, Verlag fur Personenenzyklopedian AG, 2008; Monografia Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice din Romania (1997-2009) etc.
5 - Citari si comentarii de apreciere asupra lucrarilor mele se gasesc in (selectiv):
  • Chang M., Chou Y. (Chang-Gung University Taiwan) - "Branch prediction using both global and local branch history information", publicat in revista "IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques", vol. 149, No.2, United Kingdom, March 2002); Chang M., Chiu T., Chang C. (Chang-Gung University, Taiwan) - "Employing both inter-branch and intra-branch correlation to improve the accuracy of branch prediction", publicat National Computer Symposium, pp. 2280-2284, Taiwan, 2003) - legat de contributiile mele in completarea informatiei de predictie respectiv predictoare dinamice neuronale
  • V. Lungu - "Procesoare Intel- Programare in limbaj de asamblare", Editura Teora, Bucuresti, 2000, ISBN 973-20-0436-3 (ed.I, 2000; ed. a 2-a, 2004)
  • Steven F.L. - "An Introduction to the Hatfield Superscalar Scheduler", University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Technical Report No.316/98, 1998 si in R.D. Potter -"Exploiting the Limitations of Fine Grained Parallelism for a Superscalar Architecture", PhD Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, U.K., October, 1998
  • Dan Grigoras - "Calculul paralel", Computer Libris Agora, ISBN 973-97534-6-9, 2000
  • Egan C., Florea A. - "Reducing the Technological Gap between an Advanced Processor and the Memory Hierarchy System" (Part1,2), Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Volume 45 (59), No 4, ISSN 1224-600X, University "Politehnica" of Timisoara, Romania, 2000
  • Boldur Barbat - "Sisteme inteligente orientate spre agent", Editura Academiei Romane, Bucuresti, 2002
  • Adrian Petrescu - "Calculatoare numerice 1,2", U.P. Bucuresti, 2001 (http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/courses/) si 2007 v. http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/courses/cn2/Bibliografie_CN2_06.pdf; Adrian Petrescu, Nirvana Popescu, Cornel Popescu, “Calculatoare numerice I”, Printech, Bucureşti, ISBN 978-973-718-730-7, 2007
  • D. Jimenez, L. Calvin - "Neural Methods for Dynamic Branch Prediction", ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS (TOCS), vol.20, Issue 4 (November 2002), pg. 369-397, ISSN 0734-2071, ACM Press, New York, USA; Daniel A. Jimenez - "Fast Path-Based Neural Branch Prediction", Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on MICROARCHITECTURE (MICRO-36), San Diego, CA, December 2003; Sunghoon Kim - "Branch Prediction using Advanced Neural Methods", TR, University of California, Berkeley, 2003; Toate aceste citari se refera la cercetarile mele in domeniul predictiei dinamice a ramificatiilor de program (Dynamic Neural Branch Prediction).
  • Dr.ing. M. Zaharia - "Microprocesoare", Universitatea Tehnica "Gh. Asachi" Iasi, http://www.ace.tuiasi.ro/~mike/progrMicro.htm
  • A. Fern, R. Givan, B. Falsafi, and T. N. Vijaykumar - "Dynamic feature selection for hardware prediction", Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 52, No.4, ISSN: 1383-7621, Elsevier, April 2006 + Technical Report TR-ECE 00-12, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2000 (http://min.ecn.purdue.edu/~afern/web-stuff/jsa-submission.pdf)
  • Hunt S., Egan C., Shafarenko A. - "A simple yet accurate neural branch predictor", IASTED Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Application (AIA), Malaga, Spain, September 2003
  • Falcon A., Stark J., Ramirez A., Lai K., Valero M. - "Prophet/Critic Hybrid Branch Prediction", International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '04), Munich, Germany, 2004 (ISCA este cea mai prestigioasa conferinta din lume in domeniul microarhitecturilor de mare performanta; autorii articolului sunt cercetatori renumiti ai companiei INTEL CO. respectiv ai Universitatii "Politecnica" din Barcelona)
  • Tarjan D., Skadron K. - "Revisiting the Perceptron Predictor Again", Technical Report CS-2004-28, University of Virginia, USA, 2004
  • Arun Lakshrninarayanan, Swmya Shriraghavan - "Neural Branch Prediction", CS6290 Project, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Petzold J., Bagci F., Trumler W., Ungerer T. - Confidence Estimation of the State Predictor Method, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, Volume 3295 / 2004
  • Monchiero M., Palermo G. - The Combined Perceptron Branch Predictor, Technical Report No. 2004.35, 2004, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (republished in Proceedings of International EuroPar Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, August 30 - September 2, 2005)
  • Seznec A. - The O-GEHL branch predictor, The JILP Championship Branch Predictors Workshop, December 4-8, 2004, Portland Oregon, SUA
  • Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rajendar Koltur, Yogesh Patil, Wael Refaai - Perceptron-Based Branch Confidence Estimation, International Conf. HPCA 04, Madrid, Spain, February 14-18 2004
  • Seznec A. - Analysis of the O-GEometric History Length Branch Predictor, 32-nd Annual ISCA CONFERENCE, Madison, Wisconsin USA, June 4-8, 2005
  • Petzold J., Bagci F., Trumler W., Ungerer T. - Next Location Prediction Within a Smart Office Building, 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Munich, Germany, May 2005
  • Daniel A. Jiménez - Improved Latency and Accuracy for Neural Branch Prediction, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS (TOCS), vol. 23, no.2, May 2005
  • Falcon A., Stark J., Ramirez A., Lai K., Valero M. - Better Branch Prediction Through Prophet/Critic Hybrids, IEEE MICRO, January/February 2005 (Vol. 25, No. 1)
  • P. Nurmi, M. Martin, John A. Flanagan - Enabling proactiviness through Context Prediction In Proceedings of the Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems, Helsinki, 16 - 17 June, 2005.
  • He Liqiang, Z. Liu - A New Value Based Branch Predictor for SMT Pocessors, Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACTA Press, 2005
  • Tarjan D., Skadron K. - Merging path and Gshare Indexing in Perceptron Branch Prediction, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION, vol.2, no 3, September 2005
  • Culpepper B., Gondre M. - SVMs for Improved Branch Prediction, University of California, UCDavis, USA, ECS201A Technical Report, 2005
  • Petzold J. - Zustandspradiktoren zur Kontextvorhersage in ubiquitaren Systemen, Teza de doctorat, Universitatea Augsburg, Germania, noiembrie 2005
  • Verdu J., Nemirovsky M., Garcia J., Valero M. - Workload Characterization of Stateful Networking Applications, International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-6), Nara City, Japan, September 2005
  • Shatnawi A., Shatnawi M. - Improving Branch Predictors by Combining with Predicated Execution, Journal of Electrical Engineering, pg. 298-305, vol. 56, no. 11-12, 2005
  • Giese P. - Characterizing the Performance of Value Prediction using Statistical Simulation, Technical Report, University of Alberta, Canada, 2005
  • Gortz M. - Effiziente Echtzeit-Kommunikationsdienste durch Einbeziehung von Kontexten, PhD Thesis, Darmstadt University, July 2005
  • Verdu J., Nemirovsky M., Garcia J., Valero M. - Architectural Impact of Stateful Networking Applications, 1-st International Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Princeton, NJ, USA, October 2005
  • Seznec A. – Genesis of the O-GEHL branch predictor, Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism, vol.7, 2005
  • Seznec A., Michaud P. – A case for (partially) TAgged Geometric history length branch prediction, Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism, vol.8, 2006
  • Desmet V. - On the Systematic Design of Cost-Effective Branch Prediction, PhD Thesis, ISBN 90-8578-087-X, Gent University, Belgium, June 2006
  • Jaleel A. - The Effects of Aggressive Out-of-Order Mechanisms on the Memory Sub-system, PhD Thesis, University of Maryland, SUA, 2005
  • Ma Y., Gao H., Zhou H. - Using Indexing Functions to Reduce Conflict Aliasing in Branch Prediction Tables, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, vol. 55, No. 8, August 2006 (IEEE TRANS. ON COMPUTERS este cea mai prestigioasa revista din lume in Computer Science!)
  • Patil S. et al. - Branch Prediction by Checking Loop Terminal Conditions, Information Systems: New Generations (ISNG) Conference Proceedings, April 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Kejariwal A. and Nicolau A. - "Reading list of performance analysis, speculative execution", http://www.ics.uci.edu/~akejariw/SpeculativeExecutionReadingList.pdf, referita in Kejariwal A., Veidenbaum A.V., Nicolau A., Girkar M., Tian X., Saito H., "Challenges in Exploitation of Loop Parallelism in Embedded Applications", Proceedings of the 4-th International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, South Korea, 2006.
  • Petzold J., Bagci F., Trumler W., Ungerer T. - Improving next location prediction by using hybrid predictors, Second International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, Dublin, Ireland, May 2006; Petzold J., Bagci F., Trumler W., Ungerer T. - Comparison of different methods for next location prediction, European Conference on Parallel Computing, Dresden, Germany, August/September 2006.
  • Poojary V. - Predicting Loop Unrolling Impact in Open MP Programs Using Machine Learning, MSc Thesis, North Carolina State University, USA, 2005
  • Tarjan D. - Merging Path, Global and Local Indexing in Perceptron Branch Prediction, MSc Thesis, University of Virginia, USA, January 2007
  • Singer J., Brown G., Watson I. - Branch Prediction with Bayesian Networks, First Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches applied to Architectures and Compilation (in conjunction with HiPEAC 2007 Conf.), pp. 96-112, Gent, Belgium, January 2007
  • Hammel K. - An Analysis of Adding a Backside Level-Two Cache to an Existing Microprocessor, MSc Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, May 2006
  • Zhang, Y., Pan, G., Xie, L. - Improved branch prediction algorithm based on the perceptron, Huazhong Keji Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Natural Science Edition), Volume 33, Issue SUPPL., December 2005, pp. 101-103
  • Armoush, A., Serhan, S.I. - Compound global and local two-level adaptive branch predictor, Modelling, Measurement and Control, Volume 77, Issue 5-6, 2004, pages 49-59
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  • Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zhou - Address-Branch Correlation: A Novel Locality for Long-Latency Hard-to-Predict Branches, The 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-14), Feb., 2008
  • Tania Das, Abantika Choudhury, Debashis De - Movement Pattern Based Adaptive Location Management, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 3 - 5, 2007
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  • Javier Verdu Mula - Analysis and Architectural Support for Parallel Stateful Packet Processing, PhD Thesis, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 2008
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6 - Proiecte de dezvoltare academica si specializari
  • Bursa individuala TEMPUS IMG-95-RO-2011, desfasurata la Universitatea Hertfordshire, Department of Computer Science, U.K., in perioada martie-mai 1996 (3 luni), pe baza invitatiei acestei universitati (laboratorul de arhitecturi de calcul avansate, prof.dr. Gordon B. Steven)
  • Coordonator general al proiectului international TEMPUS JEP AC 13559/1998 ("Retraining Support for Small and Medium Enterprises"), perioada 1998 - 2000, in valoare de peste 200.000 ECU-Euro (cca. 70.000 Euro la ULB Sibiu), in colaborare cu universitati din: Bucuresti ("Politehnica"), Brasov ("Transilvania"), Anglia (De Montfort, Leicester), Irlanda (Galway), Spania (Autonoma Barcelona) si Germania (Karlsruhe)
  • Vizite cooperare/specializare: Anglia (Universitatea De Montfort - 1999, 2000; Universitatea Hertfordshire - 1996, 1999, 2000), Republica Irlanda (Universitatea Galway - 1999), Spania (Universitatea Autonoma Barcelona - 1999, Universitatea "Politecnica" Barcelona - 2005), Suedia (Universitatea Lund - 2000), Germania (Universitatea din Karlsruhe - 2001; Siemens CT IC, Munchen, 2002, 2003, 2005; Universitatea din Augsburg - 2003, DAAD grant; Compania Continental Nuremberg - 2004) respectiv S.U.A. (Universitatea Columbia-Missouri - Visiting Scholar 1999, USIA)
  • In 2004 am fondat "Centrul de cercetare pentru arhitecturi avansate de procesare a informatiei" (CCAAPI) din cadrul Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" Sibiu - a se vedea http://acaps.ulbsibiu.ro/research.php
  • Evaluator (acreditare) al mai multor programe didactice si de cercetare. Implicat ca expert in programele strategice nationale finantate POSDRU: Calitate si leadership (2009, 2010), Doctoratul in scoli de excelenta (2010, 2011) etc.
7 - Distinctii / Premii:
  • Ales (cel mai tanar!) MEMBRU corespondent al "ACADEMIEI DE STIINTE TEHNICE DIN ROMANIA" - http://www.astr.ro, http://www.astr.ro/index.php?page=aboutmember&id=255, sectia "Calculatoare, Tehnologia Informatiei si Comunicatiilor" (in cadrul Adunarii Generale din 21 aprilie 2005; calitatea de membru al Academiei se pastreaza pe viata.)
  • PREMIUL "TUDOR TANASESCU" al ACADEMIEI ROMANE, decernat in decembrie 2005, pt. lucrarea "Simularea si optimizarea arhitecturilor de calcul in aplicatii practice", Editura Matrix Rom, Bucuresti, 2003 (443 pg. + CD atasat continand o platforma complexa de simulare-optimizare a unor microarhitecturi avansate, dezvoltata de autori; co-autor dr. ing. A. Florea)
  • Titlul onorific de "Visiting Research Fellow" la Universitatea din Hertfordshire, Marea Britanie, obtinut in 2002; v. http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~ctca/
  • Diploma Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu (ULBS) pentru "competenta academica deosebita si servicii exceptionale aduse" (1999) respectiv Diploma si Medalia ULBS (cu efigia "L. Blaga") cu prilejul aniversarii a 220 de ani de invatamant superior sibian, pentru merite academice (2005)
  • Un premiu national (Concursul national studentesc de matematica "Traian Lalescu", Brasov, 1984) si alte doua premii la nivelul centrului universitar Timisoara (Concursul de matematica "Traian Lalescu" si Sesiunea de comunicari studentesti - matematica, 1984)
  • Expert al Comisiei Europene in domeniul "Computing Systems" (din 2005)
  • Best Paper Award la Conferinta Internationala RoEduNet 2010 pentru doctorandul meu Horia Calborean (pe care l-am sprijinit in elaborarea lucrarii sale in calitate de coautor)
8 - Domenii de interes
  • Arhitecturi de procesare cu paralelism la nivelul instructiunilor si microthread-urilor, Chip Multi-Processors (CMP, multi and many-cores), sisteme predictive cu procesari speculative (proactive), algoritmi avansati de aritmetica binara, automatizarea proiectarii structurilor de calcul prin metode tip machine learning, microarhitecturi dedicate (embedded), ubiquitous computing (calculatoare omniprezente), clasificarea automata a documentelor, istoria stiintei si ingineriei calculatoarelor
  • DETALII SUPLIMENTARE ASUPRA ACTIVITATII MELE PROFESIONALE SE GASESC LA: http://webspace.ulbsibiu.ro/lucian.vintan/html/ si la: http://www.astr.ro/index.php?page=aboutmember&id=255

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