Author

Richard (Rich) Vuduc is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, a department devoted to the study of computer-based modeling and simulation of natural and engineered systems. His research lab, The HPC Garage is interested in high-performance computing, with an emphasis on algorithms, performance analysis, and performance engineering. He is a recipient of a DARPA Computer Science Study Group grant; an NSF CAREER award; a collaborative Gordon Bell Prize in 2010; Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2013); and Best Paper Awards at the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM, 2012) and the IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2015), among others. Most recently, Dr. Vuduc has led an effort to map high-performance applications like LAMMPS and MueLu to Data Processing Unit (DPUs) with early results resulting in an IPDPS 2022 Best Paper nominee.