Tommy McMichen
Education
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.Ph.D. in Computer Science, Advised by Simone Campanoni. (Expected 2026).
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Advised by Simone Campanoni. 2023.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. 2020.
Publications
Automatic Data Enumeration for Fast Data Collections Tommy McMichen, Simone Campanoni.
Saving Energy with Per-Variable Bitwidth Speculation Tommy McMichen, David Dlott, Panitan Wongse-ammat, Nathan Greiner, Hussain Khajanchi, Russ Joseph, Simone Campanoni.
Representing Data Collections in an SSA Form Tommy McMichen, Nathan Greiner, Peter Zhong, Federico Sossai, Atmn Patel, Simone Campanoni.
Getting a Handle on Unmanaged Memory Nick Wanninger, Tommy McMichen, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda.
Program State Element Characterization Enrico Armenio Deiana, Brian Suchy, Michael Wilkins, Brian Homerding, Tommy McMichen, Katarzyna Dunajewski, Peter Dinda, Nikos Hardavellas, Simone Campanoni.
NOELLE Offers Empowering LLVM Extensions Angelo Matni, Enrico Armenio Deiana, Yian Su, Lukas Gross, Souradip Ghosh, Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Ishita Chaturvedi, Brian Homerding, Tommy McMichen, David I. August, Simone Campanoni.
Fine-Grained Acceleration using Runtime Integrated Custom Execution (RICE) Leela Pakanati, Tommy McMichen, Zachary Estrada.
Talks
Towards Collection-Oriented Compilation in LLVMVideo
Santa Clara, California, October 2025.
Representing Data Collections for Analysis and Transformation
Northwestern University, July 2023.
Northwestern University, October 2023.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, October 2023.
University of Cambridge, March 2024.
University of California, Santa Cruz, October 2025.
Posters
Collection-Oriented Compilation with MemOIRGreater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2025.
LLVM Developers' Meeting, 2025.
Service
Artifact Evaluation Committee, International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC). 2026.Board Member, Computer Science Social Initiative, Northwestern University. 2021—Present.
Member, CS Ph.D. Orientation Planning Committee, Northwestern University. 2022—2025.
Member, CS Ph.D. Visit Day Planning Committee, Northwestern University. 2022—2026.
Student Volunteer, International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). October 2022.
Chairperson, IEEE, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology student branch. August 2019—May 2020.
Corresponding Secretary, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Epsilon Eta Chapter. August 2019—May 2020.
Member, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Epsilon Eta Chapter. May 2018—May 2020.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant for COMP_SCI 322 Compiler Construction.Instructor: Prof. Simone Campanoni
Resident Tutor for Computer Science and Computer Engineering Departments.