[1][2][3][4][5] He has been a professor of Computer Science at Rice since July 1989 and was the chair of that department from 2002 to 2008.
As of July 2019, he is the chair of the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
His primary research area has been program analysis and optimization.
He and Linda Torczon co-authored the book Engineering a Compiler.
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