Presenter

Torsten Hoefler is a full professor at ETH Zurich, where he directs the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL). He is also the Chief Architect for Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center and a long-term consultant to Microsoft in the areas of large-scale AI and networking. He received his PhD in 2007 at Indiana University and started his first professor appointment in 2011 at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.

Torsten is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the Academia Europaea. He received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2019. He is the the youngest recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award, was the first recipient of the ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award in 2023, has received six Best Paper awards at the ACM/IEEE SC Conference, and received both the ACM Prize in Computing and the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal of Germany in 2024.