José F. Martínez

José Martínez is the Lee Teng-hui Professor of Engineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the graduate field of Computer Science, and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell. He is part of Cornell’s Computer Systems Laboratory.

Professor Martínez was Associate Dean (2020-21) and Senior Associate Dean (2021-2024) for Diversity and Academic Affairs (a.k.a. Faculty Affairs) at Cornell Engineering. Before that, he was Associate Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chair of the School’s computer engineering unit.

Professor Martínez is co-PI and part of the executive leadership for the JUMP 2.0 Center for Evolvable Computing (ACE, 2023-27) and the NSF Science & Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS, 2021-26). He was the co-director of the JUMP Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP, 2018-23), as well as co-founder and member of the executive committee of Cornell’s Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA).

Professor Martínez is a Fellow of the IEEE. His research has received several awards over the years; among them: two IEEE Micro Top Picks papers, an HPCA Best Paper award, MICRO and HPCA Best Paper nominations, an NSF CAREER Award, two IBM and two Qualcomm Faculty Awards, and a Distinguished Educator Award by the Computer Science Department of University of Illinois (his graduate alma mater). On the teaching side, he has have been recognized with two Kenneth A. Goldman ’71 and one Dorothy and Fred Chau MS’74 Cornell Engineering teaching awards, a Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Teaching Excellence, thrice as the Most Influential College Educator of a Merrill Presidential Scholar, and as the student-elected 2011 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year at Cornell Engineering.

Professor Martínez served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters from 2013 through 2016, and in 2017 as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Transactions Operating Committee. He was Program Co-chair of MICRO 2009, Program Chair of HPCA 2016, and General Co-chair of ISCA 2020 and 2021.

Professor Martínez graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.