Faculty Profiles
Brad G. Calder
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer architecture, specifically the interaction between architecture and compiler optimizations across a broad range of subjects.
Professor Calder's research interests include customized processors, simulation methodology, prefetching and stream processors, critical path prediction, dynamic compilation and optimization, predicated execution, memory hierarchy placement optimizations, branch and fetch prediction, value-based optimization and value prediction, and performance of mobile code. Since Fall 1999, Calder has also organized an annual UCSD competition to pick the best undergraduate computer programmers, and every year a team coached by Calder has gone to the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Capsule Bio:
Brad Calder joined the UCSD faculty in January 1997. He earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Washington, and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1995. In 1995-96, Calder was a principal engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Lab. Also in 1996, he co-founded a company in the Bay Area called Tracepoint. While on the UCSD faculty, Calder also co-founded Entropia. From 2000-02, he was also the company's Director of Platform Engineering. Entropia provides enterprise desktop distributed computing grid solutions.
