Mark D. Hill

Mark D. Hill is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, holding the John P. Morgridge Professorship and the Gene M. Amdahl Professorship of Computer Science. He specializes in computer architecture, parallel computing, memory systems and performance evaluation, and has been cited more than 27,000 times. He was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow in 2004 for contributions to memory consistency models and memory system design, received the ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award in 2009, and received the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2019 for seminal contributions to the fields of cache memories, memory consistency models, transactional memory and simulation. He earned a B.S.E. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1981, an M.S. in computer science in 1983, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.