Education
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Ph.D. - The Pennsylvania State University, 2016
Computer Science and Engineering
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B.S. with Honors - The Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Computer Engineering, Minors - Math and Physics, Honors - Materials Science
Employment
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY - Computer Science Department
Associate Professor (tenured), 2023 - Present
Assistant Professor, 2016 - 2023
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Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM - Scalable Algorithms Department (01465)
Visiting Scientist, 2016 - Present
Computer Scientist, 2016
Graduate Research Intern, 2013 - 2016
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The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA - Scalable Computing Laboratory
Research Assistant, 2012 - 2015
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Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI and Keyport, WA
Commander, Naval Installations Command, Naval Yard, Washington, D.C.
Computer Engineer, 2010 - 2012
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Penn State Applied Research Laboratory, University Park, PA - Advanced Coatings Department
Research Assistant, 2007 - 2009
Awarded Funding
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Low-precision Second-order-type Distributed Methods for Training and Fine-tuning Foundation Models
RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration, $200,000, 2024
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CAREER: Scalable Graph Processing to a Quadrillion Edges and Beyond
National Science Foundations, $488,066, 2021-2026
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Frameworks, Algorithms and Scalable Technologies for Mathematics (FASTMath5) SciDAC Institute
Department of Energy, $1,825,000, 2020-2025
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Spectral Partitioning Schemes for Physics Simulation Data Sets
Sandia National Laboratories, $119,703, 2020-2022
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MRI: Acquisition of a Next Generation, Data-Centric Supercomputer
PI: Christopher Carothers, co-PIs: George Slota, Mohammed Zaki, Kristen Bennett, Mark Shephard
National Science Foundation, $990,000, 2018-2021
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Distributed Graph Algorithmics to Test Algorithms on HPC Systems with Multiple Levels of Main Memory
Sandia National Laboratories, $76,356, 2017-2019
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Frameworks, Algorithms and Scalable Technologies for Mathematics (FASTMath4) SciDAC Institute
Project Website
Sandia National Laboratories (subcontract from DOE project), $135,000, 2017-2020
Honors and Awards
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Trustees Celebration of Faculty Achievement, RPI Board of Trustees, 2022, 2023
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CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2021-2026
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Science Policy Fellowship, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2020-2022
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Best Paper, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP19), 2019
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Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 2014 - 2015
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Travel Awards, PP14, IPDPS14, BigData14, SC14, CSE15, IPDPS15, SC15, IPDPS16
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Graduate Research Assistant Award, PSU Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2014
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Best Paper, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP13), 2013
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Schreyer Honors College and Academic Scholarship, 2005 - 2009
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Leonhard Scholarship, PSU College of Engineering, 2005 - 2009
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Undergraduate Honors Program, Applied Research Lab at PSU, 2007 - 2009