Scholar
Mark D. Hill
Google Scholar ID: 7lVfIWYAAAAJ
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emeritus
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,628
H-index
43
i10-index
99
Publications
20
Co-authors
66
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award; Fellow of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. His research contributions include parallel-computer system design, memory system design, and computer simulation. Inventor of the widely-used 3C model of cache behavior (compulsory, capacity, and conflict misses) and co-inventor of the memory consistency model sequential consistency for data-race-free programs, which serves as a foundation for the C++ and Java multi-threaded memory specifications.
Research Experience
- Served at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1988 to 2020. Member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) 2013-21, including as CCC Chair 2018-20; Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) 2018-20 & 2025-present; and Chair of the Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department 2014-2017. Partner Hardware Architect at Microsoft (2020-2024), leading some software-hardware pathfinding for Azure.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California - Berkeley, 1987.
Background
- Research Interests: Computer architecture, parallel computing, memory systems, and performance evaluation. Short Biography: Gene M. Amdahl & John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, retired in 2020 to become Professor Emeritus. He then was Partner Hardware Architect at Microsoft (2020-2024) where he led some software-hardware pathfinding for Azure.
Miscellany
- Currently resides in Menlo Park, CA.
