David A. Bader School of Computational Science and Engineering College of Computing

David A. Bader is a Full Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Executive Director for High Performance Computing. Dr. Bader is a lead scientist in the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from The University of Maryland, and his research is supported through highly-competitive research awards, primarily from NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DOE. Dr. Bader serves on the Research Advisory Council for Internet2, the Steering Committees of the IPDPS and HiPC conferences, the General Chair of IPDPS 2010 and Chair of SIAM PP12. He is an associate editor for several high impact publications including the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA), IEEE DSOnline, Parallel Computing, and Journal of Computational Science, and has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). He was elected as chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and as chair of the SIAM Activity Group in Supercomputing (SIAG/SC).

Dr. Bader's interests are at the intersection of high-performance computing and real-world applications, including computational biology and genomics and massive-scale data analytics. He has co-chaired a series of meetings, the IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB), co-organized the NSF Workshop on Petascale Computing in the Biological Sciences, written several book chapters, and co-edited special issues of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) and IEEE TPDS on high-performance computational biology. He is also a leading expert on multicore, manycore, and multithreaded computing for data-intensive applications such as those in massive-scale graph analytics. He has co-authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and his main areas of research are in parallel algorithms, combinatorial optimization, massive-scale social networks, and computational biology and genomics.

Prof. Bader is a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient, and has received numerous industrial awards from IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, Cray, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft Research. He served as a member of the IBM PERCS team for the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program, was a distinguished speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program, and has also served as Director of the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor. Bader is recognized as a "RockStar" of High Performance Computing by InsideHPC and as HPCwire's People to Watch in 2012.

	Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators Jack Dongarra, David A. Bader, Jakub Kurzak, (Ed.), CRC Press, © 2010. ISBN-10: 143982536X ISBN-13: 978-1439825365
	Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications David A. Bader (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series, © 2007. ISBN-10: 1584889098 ISBN-13: 978-1584889090

Active Projects for Students

Current National Science Foundation Projects:

• Understanding Whole-genome Evolution through Petascale Simulation,
  Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering Through Petascale Simulations and Analysis (PetaApps) Program, (OCI-0904461)
• Establishing a Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR),
  Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program. (IIP-0934114)
• Development of a Research Infrastructure,
  Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) Program. (CNS-0708307)

Recent Service:

• Advisory Council, Internet2 (2007-)
• Associate Editor, The IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
• Associate Editor, The ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics.
• Associate Editor, Parallel Computing.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Science.
• Associate (Founding) Editor, The IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
• Steering Committee Member:
  • The IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2002--2006, 2009-2011.
  • The IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2002--2007.
  • The International Symposium on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA), 2005--present.
  • The Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC), 2008--present.
  • The International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore Technologies (IFMT), 2008--present.
• General Chair:
  • The 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010), Atlanta, GA.
  • The 19th IEEE International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2010).
• General Vice Chair:
  • The 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), Rome, Italy.
• Co-Chair:
  • Georgia Tech/AFRL Computational Science Workshop on Computational Science Challenges Using Emerging & Massively Parallel Computer Architectures, Atlanta, GA.
  • IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB).
  • Minisymposium on High-Performance Computing on Massive Real-World Graphs, 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN09), Denver, CO.
  • The SC08 Workshop on Multicore Architectures and Biomedical Informatics, Austin, TX.
  • The 2nd Annual Georgia Tech -- Sony, Toshiba, IBM (STI) Workshop on Software and Algorithms for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, Atlanta, GA.
  • Minisymposium on Cell BE Technologies: Algorithms, Programming Models and Environments, Performance Analysis and Applications, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Minisymposium on High Performance Computing on the Cell Processor, 13th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP08), Atlanta, GA.
  • Minisymposium on HPC on Large Graphs, 13th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP08), Atlanta, GA.
• Program Chair:
  • The 18th IEEE International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2009), Rome, Italy.
• Program Vice Chair:
  • The 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2010).
  • The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2010), Melbourne, Australia.
  • The 15th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distribbuted Systems (ICPADS), Shenzhen, China.
  • The 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • The 15th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India.

Teaching:

• PPoPP 2011 Tutorial on Parallel Programming for Graph Analysis

• Recently taught courses:
• Computational Science and Engineering Algorithms
  • CS 4140, CSE 6140, Fall 2011
  • CS 4140, CSE 6140, Fall 2010
  • CSE 6140, Fall 2009
  • CSE 6140, Fall 2008
  • CSE 6140, Fall 2007
• High Performance Computing, CSE 6220, Spring 2008


• Older courses:
• Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games, Fall 2007
• High-Performance Computing Seminar, Spring 2007
• Multicore Computing, CS 8803-MC, CS 4803-MC, Spring 2007
• Discrete Algorithms in Computational Science and Engineering, CS 8803-DA, CS 4803-DA, Fall 2006
• Computability, Algorithms, and Complexity, CS 6505, Spring 2006
• Parallel Algorithms
• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Advanced Parallel Algorithms
• Advanced Cache-Aware Algorithms
• Computer Design
• Foundations of Computing
• Introduction to Parallel Processing

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