Paper 'Bridging Storage Semantics using Data Labels and Asynchronous I/O' received Best Paper Award at HPDC 2019
Published supporting paper 'ChronoLog: A Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store with Time-based Data Ordering'
Paper 'HCDA: From Computational Thinking to a Generalized Thinking Paradigm' accepted to appear in Communications of the ACM (CACM)
Recipient of a large NSF grant award
Frequent invited speaker on topics including PIM computer architectures, I/O systems, memory systems, and artificial intelligence
Involved in organizing major conferences such as ICPP 2021 and HPBD&IS 2020
Background
Director of the Scalable Computing Software (SCS) Laboratory at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech)
University Distinguished Professor and Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair of Computer Science at Illinois Tech
Former Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Tech (9/2009–8/2014)
IEEE Fellow and Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society
Research interests: parallel and distributed processing, memory and I/O systems, software systems for Big Data applications, performance evaluation and optimization