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Professor Cooperman currently works in high-performance computing. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1978. He came to Northeastern University in 1986, and has been a full professor there since 1992. His visiting research positions include a 5-year IDEX Chair of Attractivity at the University of Toulouse/CNRS in France, and sabbaticals at Concordia
University, CERN, and Inria/France. In 2014, he and his student, Xin Dong, added semi-automatic multi-threading support to the million-line Geant4 code of CERN. He is one of more than 100 co-authors on the foundational Geant4 paper, whose current citation count is 34,000. Prof. Cooperman currently leads the DMTCP project (Distributed Multi-Threaded CheckPointing) for transparent checkpointing. The project began in 2004, and has benefited from a series of PhD theses. Over 150 refereed publications cite DMTCP as having contributed to their research project.
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