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José Martínez is the Lee Teng-hui Professor of Engineering and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. He is co-PI and Associate Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS, 2021-2026, $25M) and co-PI and Theme Lead of the DARPA/SRC Center for Evolving Computing (ACE, 2023-2027, $31M). From 2018 to 2023, he was co-PI and Assistant Director of the DARPA/SRC Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP, $30M).

His research has received several awards over the years; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers; an HPCA Best Paper award, as well as MICRO and HPCA Best Paper nominations; an NSF CAREER Award; two IBM Faculty Awards; and a Distinguished Educator Award by the University of Illinois’ Computer Science Department.

On the teaching side, he has been recognized with two Kenneth A. Goldman ’71 and one Dorothy and Fred Chau MS’74 College of Engineering teaching awards; a Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Teaching Excellence; thrice as the most influential college educator of a Merrill Presidential Scholar (Andrew Tibbits ’07, Gulnar Mirza ’16, and Angela Jin ’21); and as the student-elected 2011 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering.

José is an IEEE Fellow and the elected Vice Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group in Computer Architecture (SIGARCH).