Daniel Ángel Jiménez

I recently left my job as associate professor with tenure in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers so I could eat more tacos.

Teaching

Selected Publications

• Renée St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez and Doug Burger, Low-Power, High-Performance Analog Neural Branch Prediction, Proceedings of the 41st Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41), Lake Como, Italy, November 2008. (pdf) (C++ code)
• Miquel Pericàs, Adrian Cristal, Francisco J. Cazorla, Ruben González, Alex Veidenbaum, Daniel A. Jiménez and Mateo Valero, A Two-Level Load/Store Queue Based on Execution Locality, Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-35), June 2008 (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Piecewise Linear Branch Prediction, Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-32), June 2005 (ps.gz) (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Code Placement for Improving Dynamic Branch Prediction Accuracy, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2005 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June, 2005 (ps.gz) (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Idealized Piecewise Linear Branch Prediction, The 1st JILP Championship Branch Prediction Competition (CBP-1), December, 2004 (co-located with MICRO 37) (ps.gz) (pdf) (Introductory PowerPoint slides from CBP) (Powerpoint slides for the predictor)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Fast Path-Based Neural Branch Prediction, Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36), San Diego, CA, December 2003. (ps.gz) (pdf) (Java source code)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Reconsidering Complex Branch Predictors, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-9), Anaheim, CA, February 2003. (ps.gz) (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez and Calvin Lin, Neural Methods for Dynamic Branch Prediction, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4, November 2002. (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Heather L. Hanson, and Calvin Lin, Boolean Formula-based Branch Prediction for Future Technologies, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Technologies (PACT), Barcelona, Spain 2001. (ps.gz) (pdf)
• Daniel A. Jiménez, Stephen W. Keckler, and Calvin Lin, The Impact of Delay on the Design of Branch Predictors, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-33), Monterey, CA 2000. (ps.gz) (pdf)

Systems Research Mentoring Workshop

Programming Languages Summer School

Branch Prediction Competition

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Sciences,
  Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
• M.S. in Computer Science,
  Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• B.S. in Computer Science and Systems Design,
  Division of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Grants

• NSF CRI-0751138, CRI: IAD Resources for Branch Prediction Research, funded as of June 1, 2008
• NSF CCF-0829760, Systems Research Mentoring Workshop, funded as of May 1, 2008
• NSF CCF-0545898/0931874, CAREER: Branch Prediction, funded as of April 1, 2006
• NSF CSA-0311091, Improving Microarchitectural Performance with Neural Predictors, funded as of July, 2003
• Rutgers Information Sciences and Technology Council, An Evaluation Infrastructure for Power and Energy Optimizations, with Ulrich Kremer, funded as of February, 2003

Program Committees

• The 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009).
• The 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2007).
• The 20th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2006).
• The 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2006).
• The 38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2005)
• The 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2005)
• The 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2004)
• The 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003)

Java CoCo Emulator

Old Stuff

• Grad Student, The University of Texas at Austin. My advisor was Calvin Lin. My thesis title was Delay-Sensitive Branch Predictors for Future Technologies.
  
  
• Instructor/Research, The Department of Rehabiliation Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio I did research at UTHSCSA into automating the design of prosthetic devices for below-the-knee amputees. Here's a Java applet I wrote that shows the shape of an amputee's leg with anatomical markers. Part of my job was to find these markers using neural networks.
  
  
• Teaching Associate, The Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio These pages relate to the classes I taught while at UTSA. They have some information that might be useful to undergraduates in CS, as well as anyone teaching similar CS courses.

Quotes

Branch Prediction Joke

Best Quote

Links

• The Comp.Theory FAQ
  I had a hand in writing this FAQ list for the newsgroup comp.theory . My stuff is where it says "the rest of this section was written by Daniel Jimenez."
• Designs by Amy
  This is my sister's web site.
• Google now has a decades long archive of old Usenet postings. Look at this old Usenet posting from 1992 describing how I was running Linux on a 16MHz 386SX with 3 (yes, three) megabytes of RAM.