Mattan received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1999. He subsequently received his M.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2002 and 2007 respectively. His experience includes working as a computer architect in the Israeli Processor Architecture Research team, Intel Corporation. As a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University he was the student leader of the Merrimac Stanford Streaming Supercomputer project, where his work spanned the entire system from microarchitecture to the Brook and Sequoia programming models. Mattan is continuing this whole-system approach at UT Austin, where his research focuses on improving performance and efficiency through advances in processor architecture and programming models and techniques.