John McIver, Ph.D. Student

I am a Ph.D. student in the Virginia Tech CS Department, where I am advised by Prof. Kirshanthan Sundararajah. My research is in the area of compiler optimization techniques for both CPU and GPGPU.

News

Towards Removing Undef Values From LLVM IR.
Pedro Lobo, John McIver, George Mitenkov, Juneyoung Lee, Kirshanthan Sundararajah, Nuno P. Lopes.
PLDI 2026. (doi)
Recipient of Distinguished Paper Award.
Reducing Radiation-Hardened Digital Circuit Power Consumption
J. K. McIver and L. T. Clark
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 2503-2509, Dec. 2005 (doi)
Design and Analysis of the Alliance/University of New Mexico Roadrunner Linux SMP SuperCluster
D. A. Bader, A. B. Maccabe, J. R. Mastaler, J. K. McIver and P. A. Kovatch
ICWC 99. IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Cluster Computing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 1999 (doi)

Sequential Circuit Design for Radiation Hardened Multiple Voltage Integrated Circuits
Lawrence T. Clark, John K. McIver III
US7622976B2 granted 2009-11-24

15+ years of commercial software development (C++, Python)
- Scientific modeling and simulation
- Electronic design automation (EDA)
- Development operations
10 years of commercial ASIC development in process nodes ranging from 1.8 μm to 28 nm

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- Medium format digital
- Camera restoration and repair 🛠
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