Prof. Markus Püschel named IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Markus Püschel for being named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognised for contributions to the implementation of signal processing techniques by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognised by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
About Markus Püschel
Markus Püschel is a professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was the head of the department from 2013 to 2016. Before joining ETH in 2010, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he still has an adjunct status.
Honoured with this award was his research on Spiral and novel methods for the discovery of signal processing algorithms. In Spiral, Markus Püschel and his collaborators developed a novel paradigm for automatically generating highly optimised software and hardware implementations for crucial mathematical computations. This work has spawned a new research area on high-level methods for performance optimisation and code development. In his algorithm work, he used methods from abstract algebra to derive novel signal transform algorithms and consolidate the large space of existing ones. He was also an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and a guest editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE. More information about this and other branches of his research can be found at acl.inf.ethz.ch/.