Dr. Xian-He Sun Appointed Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair
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Illinois Tech has appointed Dr. Xian-He Sun, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, as the Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair in Computer Science, as announced on December 16, 2020 (opens in a new tab). The chair is named for Ron Hochsprung, an Illinois Tech alumnus.
The announcement
Provost Peter Kilpatrick described Dr. Sun as "one of the national leaders in high-performance computing" who "has done seminal work on the scalability of parallel processor computers."
The announcement notes that, as director of Illinois Tech's Scalable Computing Software Laboratory, Dr. Sun co-developed Sun-Ni's law, one of the three scalable computing laws alongside Amdahl's law and Gustafson's law, and helped develop C-AMAT, a model that addresses the memory-wall problem.