André Seznec is a French
computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...
. He is a senior research director at
IRISA
The is a joint computer science research center of CNRS, University of Rennes 1, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes and Inria, in Rennes in Brittany. It is one of the eight Inria research centers.
Created in 1975 as a spin-off of the University of Rennes ...
/
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
in
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine departm ...
, France.
He was named a
(IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to design of branch predictors and cache memory for processor architectures''. He was named a
Fellow of the ACM
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
in 2016. He is the 2020 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award recipient “for pioneering contributions to cache design and branch prediction".
References
External links
André Seznec's Home Page
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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