Frank Mueller
Computer Science
- Phone: 919-515-7889
- Email: fmuelle@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building II (EB2) 3266
Frank Mueller is a professor in the Computer Science Department at NC State University.
Research Interests
- Architecture and Operating Systems
- Cloud Computing
- Embedded and Real-Time Systems
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Quantum Computing
- Scientific and High-Performance Computing
- Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science | Florida State University | 1994 |
| MSCS | Master of Science in Computer Science | Florida State University | 1991 |
| BSCS | Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | Technical University Berlin | 1987 |
Honors and Awards
- 2019 | Best Paper Award at the IEEE Cluster Computing Conference (Cluster)
- 2019 | Gauss Award for “most outstanding research paper submitted to the International Supercomputing Conference” (ISC)
- 2018 | Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data (BDCAT)
- 2018 | ACM Fellow
- 2017 | Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Real-Time Systems
- 2016 | IEEE Fellow
- 2014 | Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Foundation)
- 2012 | Gold Core Member Award, IEEE- Computer Society (IEEE-CS)
- 2011 | Distinguished Member Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2010 | NVIDIA Research Award
- 2009 | Google Research Award
- 2007 | Humboldt Research Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation)
- 2007 | Gelato (IP)2 Award, Innovative Project on Itanium processors
- 2007 | Best Paper Award, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
- 2006 | IBM Faculty Award
- 2003 | National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award
- 2003 | Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
- 2002 | Best Paper Award at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
- 2002 | Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, North Carolina State University
- 1999 | Advisor of Best Master’s Thesis at Humboldt University Berlin in Computer Science
- 1989 | Fulbright-Stipend and Stipend by the Federation of German-American Clubs
Publications
- Report on the 2024 Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK)
- Girault, A., Kuo, T.-W., & Mueller, F. (2025, February), IEEE DESIGN & TEST, Vol. 42, pp. 65–67. https://doi.org/10.1109/MDAT.2024.3489023
- T-Tex: Timed Threaded Execution for Real-time Security and Safety
- Mittal, S., & Mueller, F. (2025), PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, ICCPS 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3716550.3722016
- OpenMP-RT: Native Pragma Support for Real-Time Tasks and Synchronization with LLVM under Linux
- McDonald, B., & Mueller, F. (2024), PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGES, COMPILERS, AND TOOLS FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, LCTES 2024, pp. 119–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652032.3657574
- Predicting GPUDirect Benefits for HPC Workloads
- Khetawat, H., Jain, N., Bhatele, A., & Mueller, F. (2024), 2024 32ND EUROMICRO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED AND NETWORK-BASED PROCESSING, PDP 2024, pp. 88–97. https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP62718.2024.00020
- Rate Adjustable Bivariate Bicycle Codes for Quantum Error Correction
- Wang, M., & Mueller, F. (2024), 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING, QCE, VOL 2, pp. 412–413. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10331
- SUIT: Secure Undervolting with Instruction Traps
- Juffinger, J., Kalinin, S., Gruss, D., & Mueller, F. (2024), PROCEEDINGS OF THE 29TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS, ASPLOS 2024, VOL 2, pp. 1128–1145. https://doi.org/10.1145/3620665.3640373
- CLAIRE: Enabling Continual Learning for Real-time Autonomous Driving with a Dual-head Architecture
- Zhang, H., & Mueller, F. (2022), 2022 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (ISORC 2022), pp. 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISORC52572.2022.9812816
- Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems
- Wilson, E., Mueller, F., & Pakin, S. (2022), SC22: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, NETWORKING, STORAGE AND ANALYSIS. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41404.2022.00018
- Guest editorial: Special issue on the 2020 IEEE symposium on real-time distributed computing (ISORC)
- Cucinotta, T., Mueller, F., & Simmhan, Y. (2022, March), JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, Vol. 124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2022.102437
- P-ckpt: Coordinated Prioritized Checkpointing
- Behera, S., Wan, L., Mueller, F., Wolf, M., & Klasky, S. (2022), 2022 IEEE 36TH INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM (IPDPS 2022), pp. 436–446. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS53621.2022.00049
