Martin Burtscher is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos. He received the combined BS/MS degree in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000. Martin's research interests include efficient parallelization of irregular programs for GPUs as well as automatic performance assessment and optimization of HPC applications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, its Computer Society, and the ACM. Martin has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications, including a book chapter in NVIDIA's GPU Computing Gems.

For more information on Martin's research: http://www.cs.txstate.edu/~burtscher/