Portrait of Ben Zorn

Ben Zorn

Partner Researcher

Professional Activities

Co-chair, CRA-Industry Committee (opens in new tab), 2020-present

Member, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council (opens in new tab), 2014-2020

Co-chair, First SIGPLAN Workshop on Probabilistic and Approximate Computing (opens in new tab) (Approx’14), June 2014

General Chair, ACM SIGPLAN 2010 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2010) (opens in new tab)

Member, ACM Software System Award Committee (opens in new tab) (2010 – present)

Chair, Conference on Code Generation and Optimization (opens in new tab) (CGO) Steering Committee (2010 – present)

SIGPLAN Executive Committee (opens in new tab), Member-at-Large (July 2007 – June 2012)

I co-chair the SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC) (opens in new tab)with Erez Petrank. (opens in new tab)We provide financial support for many professional activities, including student travel. Check it out!

I chair the SIGPLAN CACM Research Highlights Nomimating Committee (opens in new tab) We nominate papers from SIGPLAN workshops and conferences to appear in the CACM Research Highlights section. If you have suggestions for such papers, please nominate them using our website (opens in new tab).

Program co-Chair (with Onur Mutlu), 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC’08) (opens in new tab)

Program Committee, 2007 Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES’07) (opens in new tab)

Program Committee, 2007 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2007) (opens in new tab)

Program co-Chair (with Kevin Skadron), Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-2006) (opens in new tab)

Program Committee, Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) (opens in new tab)

Ben’s CLI Benchmarks- a collection of compute-intensive CLI programs.