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Current Research Areas and Interests

I like to combine techniques from mathematics, computer science, and engineering to attack difficult problems.

One longstanding interest of mine is what I call "program synthesis for performance." For functionality of mathematical nature we aim to automatically generate highest performance code from a high level mathematical description. In Spiral, we have built such a generator for the domain of linear transforms. The project combines techniques from mathematics, programming languages, symbolic computation, compilers, and machine learning (short overview). We are currently expanding this project in several directions.

Other current research directions

• Communication-efficient algorithms for distributed optimization problems (with João Mota, João Xavier and Pedro Aguiar)
• Machine learning algorithms to predict optimal solutions in a multi-objective design space (with Marcela Zuluaga and Andreas Krause)
• Tools to better understand and analyze software performance (with Victoria Caparros Cabezas and Phillip Stanley-Marbell)
• Performance optimization of machine learning algorithms (with Giovanni A. Garcia and Andreas Krause)
• In SMART we have been developing a novel approach to linear signal processing, termed Algebraic Signal Processing Theory. One application is a comprehensive theory of fast transform algorithms.

Research Group

Postdocs

• Marcela Zuluaga

PhD. students

• Francois Serre
• Alen Stojanov
• Daniele Spampinato
• Georg Ofenbeck
• Victoria Caparros Cabezas (with Phillip Stanley-Marbell)
• (at CMU/IST Lisbon) João Mota (with João Xavier and Pedro Aguiar, IST, Lisbon, Portugal)

Current master theses

• Benjamin Hess (with Thomas Gross): Automatic Refactoring: Locality Friendly Interface Enhancements for Numerical Functions
• Jörn Schumacher: High Performance Sparse Fast Fourier Transform
• Maksim Rubanov (with Georg Ofenbeck): Extensions of the Roofline Model
• Leo Büttiker (with Georg Ofenbeck): Rewrite Engine for Staged Expressions

Latest Teaching

Spring 2013:
How to Write Fast Numerical Code (CS: 263-2800)
Design of Digital Circuits (Digitaltechnik) (CS: 252-0014)

Current Collaborators

Pedro Aguiar (IST, Lisbon, Portugal), Franz Franchetti (CMU), James C. Hoe (CMU), Thomas Holenstein (ETH), Jelena Kovacevic (CMU), Andreas Krause (ETH), Peter Milder (CMU), José M. F. Moura (CMU), Martin Odersky (EPFL), Tiark Rompf (EPFL), Martin Rötteler (NEC Labs, Princeton), Phillip Stanley-Marbell, João Xavier (IST, Lisbon, Portugal)

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Contact Info

Markus Püschel
Dept. of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, RZ H18
Clausiusstrasse 59
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
phone: +41 44 632 7303
fax: +41 44 632 1307
email: pueschel at inf.ethz.ch
web: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~markusp