Presenter

William Killian is a Ph.D. student at the University of Delaware. His research area focuses on parallel runtimes and languages, specifically providing performance and source code portability when targeting heterogeneous architectures. Previously, his research focused on combining static analysis and run-time information to drive compiler optimizations. William has interned at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working on application fitting of large-scale physics applications on exascale-class architectures (2015) and on the automatic construction of optimization speedup prediction models targeting various architectures for high-dimensional codes (2016). He also interned at Intel Corporation working on application fitness of CORAL benchmarks running on Intel's and competitors' architectures (2013). William earned his M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Delaware (2013) and his B.S. in Computer Science from Millersville University of Pennsylvania (2011). William has taught computer architecture at the University of Delaware, receiving a competitive excellence in teaching award (2016).