Richard Vuduc is a tenured

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of computer science at the

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. His research lab, The HPC Garage, studies

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, modeling, and engineering. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). As of 2022, Vuduc serves as Vice President of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing. He has co-authored over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Education

Dr. Vuduc received his Ph.D. in computer science from the

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, in 2004. He received his B.S in computer science at

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in 1997. He is also an alumnus of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in

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Academic career

Vuduc was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has served as an associate editor of both the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications and

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Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He co-chaired the Technical Papers Program of the “Supercomputing” (SC) Conference in 2016 and was later elected to be Vice President of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing from 2016 to 2018. He also served as department’s Associate Chair and Director of its graduate (MS & Ph.D.) programs from 2013-2016.

Major honors and awards

* Member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group * Recipient

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* Collaborative Gordon Bell Prize 2010 * Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2013 * Best Paper Awards, including the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM, 2012) and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2015)

Major publications

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References

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