Hubertus Franke
Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University
Town of Yorktown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHubertus Franke is a Distinguished Research Scientist with over three decades at IBM Research, specializing in operating systems, computer architecture, cloud and high-performance computing, and compilers. He has authored 143+ peer-reviewed publications and holds 182+ granted patents, blending deep technical invention with research management and strategy—most recently in confidential computing and software-defined infrastructures. A founding contributor to the K42 scalable OS and original developer of the MPI stack for IBM SP supercomputers, he also led wire-speed processor and Linux scalability efforts. Hubertus teaches graduate-level computer science at NYU, Columbia and UIUC, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to 40+ courses taught at NYU alone. His open-source contributions include improvements to libdispatch (Grand Central Dispatch) on multicore Linux, reflecting hands-on systems engineering alongside high-level research direction.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom / Masters, Diplom / Masters at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Ph.D., Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University
English, German
Github Skills (8)
c1710
linux10
sem10
c1110
semaphore10
concurrency10
system-programming9
multithreading8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-libdispatch
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
The libdispatch Project, (a.k.a. Grand Central Dispatch), for concurrency on multicore hardware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 24 PRs, 48 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hubertus focused on improving the libdispatch project, which provides concurrency features for multi-core hardware. They made significant changes to timer functionality, including adjustments for Linux environments and the implementation of a futex-based semaphore system. The user also addressed formatting and naming conventions, demonstrating attention to code quality and consistency within the project. Additionally, they contributed to Linux support for readahead functionality.
dispatchpatchgrand-central-dispatchconcurrencymulticore
frankeh/swift-corelibs-libdispatch
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:40 pushes, 12 branches, 7 comments in 8 months
dispatchgrand-central-dispatchconcurrencymulticoregrand
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