Martin Herbordt

Martin HerbordtAssociate Professor
PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1994

Computer Engineering
Computer Architecture and Automated Design


(617) 353-9850
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office: PHO 333
office hours: Monday, Wednesday, 3:00-5:00 PM

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • 2010 BU ENG Dean’s Catalyst Award
  • 2008 IBM Faculty Award
  • 1997 NSF CAREER Award

Classes Taught

  • EC413 Computer Organization
  • EC500 Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • EC513 Computer Architecture
  • EC713 Parallel Computer Architecture

Research Interests

  • computer architecture
  • high performance computing systems and applications
  • configurable computing
  • high-level design automation
  • bioinformatics and computational biology

Selected Publications

  • M. Chiu and M.C. Herbordt (2010): Molecular Dynamics Simulations on High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Systems, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.
  • J.H. Park, Y. Qiu, M.C. Herbordt (2009): CAAD BLASTP: NCBI BLASTP Accelerated with FPGA-Based Pre-Filtering, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines.
  • T. VanCourt and M.C. Herbordt (2009): Elements of High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, in Advances in Computers, v75, pp. 113-157; Marvin Zelkowitz, editor; Elsevier, Inc.
  • B. Sukhwani and M.C. Herbordt (2009):  GPU Acceleration of a Production Molecular Docking Code, Proceedings of GPGPU:  General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units.
  • M. C. Herbordt, Y. Gu, T. VanCourt, J. Model, B. Sukhwani, and M. Chiu (2008): Computing Models for FPGA-Based Accelerators, Computing in Science & Engineering, 10 (6), pp. 35-45.