Tom Conte's research is in the areas of computer architecture and compiler optimization, including manycore architectures, microprocessor architectures, back-end compiler code generation, architectural performance evaluation and embedded computer system architectures. Conte is the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Awards Committee, past chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO), the past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture (TC-uARCH), and also a fellow of the IEEE. He is the editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler optimization, and was the editor in chief of the Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism from 1997-2001 and 2002-2005. He is an associate editor of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, and the IEEE Computer and IEEE Micro magazines.  Tom Conte received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1992.