Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1981)
M.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1977)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (1972)
Pen-Chung Yew joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering as a professor in 1994. He also served as the associate head of the department from 1995-96 and 1999-2000, as well as the head of the department from 2000-05. Yew received his M.S. (1977) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Ph.D. (1981) in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 1998 and was named a William Norris Land-Grant Chair Professor from 2000-05.
Yew's research/teaching interests include computer architectures and compilers targeting future generations of secure high-performance multi- and many-core systems. Areas of recent focus include enhancing system security at both the micro-architectural and source/binary-code levels, system virtualization and dynamic binary translation, leveraging machine-learning approaches to enhance compilation techniques, improving high-performance memory systems, and debugging and testing of parallel programs.
Research Division
Computing Systems
Current Research
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Ph.D. Graduates
Sanyam Mehta (2014); Jagan Jayaraj (2013); Pei-Hung Lin (2013); Tong Chen (2010); Venkatesan Packirisamy (2009); Jinpyo Kim (2008); Shengyue Wang (2007); Xiaoru Dai (2005); Sangyuen Cho (2002); Bixia Zheng (2000); Jinseok Kong (1999); Hock Beng Lim (1999); Jenn-Yuan Tsai (1998, UIUC); Lynn Choi (1996, UIUC); Pavlos Konas (1994, UIUC); David K. Poulsen (1994, UIUC); Ding-Kai Chen (1994, UIUC); William Hsu (1992, UIUC); Hong-Men Su (1992, UIUC); David John Lilja (1991, UIUC); Timothy Alden Davis (1989, UIUC); Zhiyuan Li (1989, UIUC); Peiyi Tang (1989, UIUC); Roland Lee (1987, UIUC); Nian-Feng Tzeng (1986, UIUC).
2000- 05: William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing
1998: IEEE Fellow
Selected Grants
CSR: Medium: Dynamic Binary Translation for a Retargetable and Behaviorally-Accurate Cross-Architecture Whole System Virtual Machine
Yew, P., McCamant, S. A. & Zhai, A. B.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/15 - 8/31/19