Timothy M. Jones

Professor of Computer Architecture and Compilation

I'm a Professor at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology (the Computer Laboratory), and Fellow and Director of Studies for Computer Science at Gonville & Caius College. I'm also Deputy Head of the School of Technology, responsible for Research.

My research focuses on extracting the many different forms of parallelism inherent in applications to increase performance and address energy-efficiency and reliability challenges within compilers, binary translators and microarchitectures. Current strands of work consider novel ways of prefetching data into caches, contemporary schemes for extracting thread-level parallelism and advanced prediction within the core, amongst others.

I'm Director of the Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre (CASCADE), where we're performing ground-breaking research that addresses some of the grand challenges in computer architecture, design automation and semiconductors.

I am a Fellow of the IET, organiser of the REACH conference and was program co-chair of CGO 2026. I have an Erdős number of 4, apparently.

PhD positions for 2027. I'm currently accepting applicants to start a PhD with me in October 2027 and will likely take on one or two students. Consider applying through CASCADE to meet the challenges we've posed for future microprocessors and systems. Please see my notes on PhD applications as well as my research overview for the areas I'm interested in.

Research Group Publications Code & data PhD applications CASCADE Style guide

Professional Service

As well as being Programme Co-Chair (with Albert Cohen) for CGO 2026 and organising REACH — our new annual conference with the IET that brings together experts in computer architecture to discuss the latest developments and emerging trends — I'm an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers, and, together with Robert Mullins, column editor for the Computing Architectures column in IEEE Computer.

I've served as sponsorship chair for CGO 2023, registration chair for MICRO 2014, finance chair for PACT 2013, and programme co-chair for the ASPLOS 2012 doctoral workshop. I've been a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College since 2013, and I'm on the Royal Society International Exchanges Panel for 2025–2027.

I'm fortunate enough to serve on the programme and external review committees of these conferences, amongst others:

ISCA 2025, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016 ASPLOS 2026 MICRO 2023, 2024 HPCA 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2015 CGO 2013, 2018, 2020, 2022 PACT 2013, 2018, 2024 CASES 2016–2020 DATE 2015–2017 SCOPES 2010–2020 IEEE Top Picks 2023 HiPEAC Distinguished Reviewer, 2012–2024

Contact

Email:
timothy.jones at cl.cam.ac.uk

Snail:
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0FD
United Kingdom