Henry (Hank) Hoffmann

I am a Ph.D. student at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where I am a member of the Raw group.   I was formerly an associate technical staff member in MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Embedded Digital Systems Group.  My research interests include parallel algorithms and architecture and automated parallelization techniques.

My resume is available here.

Research

Stream Algorithms:

Along with Volker Strumpen and Anant Agarwal, I have developed a framework for analyzing the computation, area, and energy efficiency of computations on single-chip parallel architectures.  This work has led to extremely efficient, scalable implementations of several difficult to parallelize algorithms, including QR factorization and singular-value decomposition.

• Henry Hoffmann and Anant Agarwal, "A Quantitative Analysis of Stream Algorithms on Raw Compute Fabrics," Talk, BARC 2005.
• Volker Strumpen, Henry Hoffmann, and Anant Agarwal, "Stream Algorithms and Archtiecture," The Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, vol. 6,  September 2004 (http://www.jilp.org/vol6).
  
• Volker Strumpen, Henry Hoffmann, and Anant Agarwal, ``A Stream Algorithm for the SVD,'' (pdf) Technical Memo 641, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, October 2003.
• Henry Hoffmann, "Stream Algorithms and Architecture," (pdf) Master's Thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2003.
• Henry Hoffmann, Volker Strumpen, and Anant Agarwal, ``Stream Algorithms and Architecture,'' (pdf) Technical Memo 636, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, March 2003.
• Henry Hoffmann, Volker Strumpen, and Anant Agarwal, "Stream Algorithms and Architecture," (pdf) Talk, BARC 2003.
• Henry Hoffmann, "Signal Processing on Raw," Presentation.
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