introduction

Dan Connors directs the computer engineering program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. His areas of interest include Systems (computer architecture, embedded system design and fault tolerance), Software (programming languages, parallel processing, compilers), Scientific Computation (high performance computing).

Recent Activity:

January 22nd: Best paper/presentation award for for "Adaptive OpenCL (ACL) Execution in GPU Architectures" at 2013 ADAPT Workshop

January 30- March 20, 2013: Mini-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Outreach: UC Denver Mini-STEM- Faculty from CU Denver/AMC will present on topics related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Professor Connors will speak on "Computers and Computer Vision", on February 20th at the UC Denver Tivoli.

    Computer Vision Slides (PDF) from February 20th: Mini-STEM

2012 UC Denver Electrical Engineering Student Project named as finalists in Cornell Cup National Competition.

The NSF/TCPP Curriculum Initiative has awarded Professor Connors Early Adopter Award for developing core curriculum for CS/CE undergraduates related to parallel and distributed computing (PDC) topics. (2012)

Dan Connors is Co-PI (PI, Dr. Julien Langou, UC Denver) on the grant “II-New: GPU Cluster for Computing Research” that was recently funded through the National Science Foundation. This project is for the acquisition of a GPU cluster dedicated to research on high performance computing. The infrastructure will enable the investigation of the theoretical cost efficiency (GFlop/sec/dollar) and the theoretical power efficiency (GFlop/sec/Watt) of high performance computer systems. Awarded Amount to Date: $435000. NSF Abstract: II-NEW GPU Cluster for Computing Research

2011 University of Colorado - UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) Grant with students: Kyle Dunn and Jeff Wiencrot - "Constructing a Flexible GPU-Accelerated Framework for Computer Vision Gesture Recognition"

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Outreach: STEMapalooza event in Denver Colorado, October 8th and 9th

Dan Connors offers industry training in high performance parallel programming: CUDA Training and Open CL Training

Interests

Some of my research and education interests:

Accelerating computer vision algorithms for mobile systems

Run-time systems and compiler optimization

Parallel programming with GPUs and heterogeneous multicores : CUDA/OpenCL

Multi-core architectures

Fault tolerant system design

Hardware design (FPGA prototyping)

Honors and Awards

University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award (2012)

Universty of Colorado named Nvidia Center for Teaching Excellence (2012)

Nvidia Faculty Fellowship Program Award (2008-2009)

University of Colorado College of Engineering - Sullivan-Carlson Teaching Innovation Award 2008

Eta Kappa Nu - National Finalist C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award for Young Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors 2004

University of Colorado College of Engineering - Peebles Outstanding Teaching Award 2003