Prof. David A. Wood is a Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Wood also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Wood received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1981) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1990), both at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1990.

Dr. Wood was named an ACM Fellow (2005) and IEEE Fellow (2004), received the University of Wisconsin's Vilas Associate Award (2011) and H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (1999), and received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator award (1991). Dr. Wood is Area Editor (Computer Systems) of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization, served as Program Committee Chairman of ASPLOS-X (2002), and has served on numerous program committees. Dr. Wood is chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). Dr. Wood has published over 75 technical papers and is an inventor on twelve U.S. and International patents. 

Dr. Wood co-leads the Wisconsin Multifacet project with Prof. Mark Hill (URL http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet) which is exploring techniques for improving the availability, designability, programmability, energy efficiency, and performance of commercial multiprocessor and chip multiprocessor servers.