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Alvin R. Lebeck

Alvin R. Lebeck

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Computer Science
alvy@cs.duke.edu
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
308 Research Dr., Dept. of Computer Science, Durham, NC 27708

Overview

My research interests span atoms to applications, with a foundation centered in computer architecture and systems. I retired from Duke in the fall of 2024 and am enjoying time as a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science · 2024 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News

Published December 31, 2020
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Programmable Dye Platform Pioneer Phitonex
Published April 14, 2020
Phitonex Pushes the Envelope of Immunology Research with 40 Color Flow Cytometry Experiment
Published October 10, 2019
Phitonex Announces $2M Seed Funding

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Recent Publications

BigLittleMCA: A Spatially-Optimal Tiled Hardware Accelerator for MCMC Image Processing

Journal Article ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · September 17, 2025 Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithms offer a general framework for performing interpretable inference but have high overheads due to the computational complexity of the sampling process and the large number of samples required to produce an accurate ... Full text Cite

Beethoven: A Heterogeneous Multi-Core Accelerator System Composer

Conference 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) · May 11, 2025 Full text Cite

Dense Server Design for Immersion Cooling

Journal Article ACM Transactions on Graphics · December 19, 2024 The growing demands for computational power in cloud computing have led to a significant increase in the deployment of high-performance servers. The growing power consumption of servers and the heat they produce is on track to outpace the capacity of conve ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants

CSR: Small: Improving Cloud Services by Exploiting Synchronized Clocks and Software Defined Flash

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2021

Accelerating Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intel Corporation · 2018 - 2021

XPS: CLCCA: Collaborative Research: Harnessing Highly Threaded Hardware for Server Workloads

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2019

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Education, Training & Certifications

University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1995 Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1991 M.S.
University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1989 B.S.

External Links

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