Thomas Gross
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Thomas K. R. Gross has been Associate Professor since 1994 and became full Professor of Computer Science April 1, 1998. Prof. Gross studied at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn and the Technical University Munich, where he graduated with a degree in computer science. He attended Stanford University and obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. At Stanford he was part of the team that developed the original Stanford MIPS processor and his dissertation (advised by John L. Hennessy) dealt with the post-pass optimizer for this innovative RISC processor. After spending another year in sunny California as a postdoc, he joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. At CMU, he headed the development of the software system for the Warp machine and later participated in the design of the iWarp, a joint Intel/CMU project. Subsequently, his focus shifted to software systems, and he and his colleagues developed several innovative compilers (Fx, cmcc).
Research Interest
design and implementation of software systems; Methods and tools for the construction of network-aware applications.
