Dr. Richard Vuduc

Biography

Richard Vuduc is a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, focusing on the study of computer-based modeling and simulation of natural and engineered systems. He leads a research lab, The HPC Garage, where he emphasizes high-performance computing, particularly in algorithms, performance analysis, and performance engineering. He has received notable accolades including the DARPA Computer Science Study Group grant, the NSF CAREER award, and contributed to the collaborative Gordon Bell Prize in 2010. He was awarded the Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013 and has received paper awards at prestigious conferences such as SIAM Conference on Data Mining in 2012 and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in 2015. Vuduc has also served as the department’s Associate Chair and Director of graduate programs and is currently the Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing for the term 2018-2020. He co-chaired the Technical Papers Program for the Supercomputing Conference in 2016 and serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Vuduc earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Research Interests