Wen-mei Hwu (Chinese: 胡文美; pinyin: Hú Wénměi) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist.
He is the Senior Director of Research and Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Corporation as well as the Walter J. Sanders III-AMD Endowed Chair Professor Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[1] Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm were the predecessors of the form of out-of-order execution that became commercially successful with the Intel P6.
Since 2009, Hwu has served as chief technology officer at MulticoreWare Inc., leading the development of compiler tools for heterogeneous platforms.
The OpenCL compilers developed by his team at MulticoreWare are based on the LLVM framework and have been deployed by leading semiconductor companies.