Biography

Experience

March 2021 - present	Professor	Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc), India
November 2009 - December 2015	Associate Professor	Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
June 2013	J.T. Oden Faculty Fellow	Lab of Prof. Keshav Pingali The Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences (ICES) University of Texas, Austin, USA
July-August 2010	Short-Term Visitor	Parallel Programming Lab (Lab of Prof. Laxmikant Kale) Computer Science Department University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
November 2003-November 2009	Assistant Professor	Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
May 2003-August 2003	Senior Research Associate	Innovative Computing Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, USA
August 1999-April2003	Graduate Research Assistant	Innovative Computing Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, USA

*The supercomputing facilities and academics of erstwhile SERC were demarcated into a facility unit, continued to be called as SERC, and an academic unit, CDS.

Education

PhD	Department of Computer Science, University of Tennesee, USA Dissertation: A Preemption-Based Meta-Scheduling System for Distributed Computing Advisor: Dr. Jack Dongarra	2003
MS	Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, USA Project: Static Assignment of Multi-threaded Systems Advisor: Dr. Harold Grossman	1999
BE	Computer Science and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India	1997

 

Biography

Sathish Vadhiyar is Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences and Chair of Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science. He obtained his B.E. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India in 1997 and received his Masters degree in Computer Science at Clemson University, USA in 1999. He graduated with a PhD in the Computer Science Department at University of Tennessee, USA in 2003. His research areas are in HPC application frameworks including multi-node and multi-device programming models and runtime strategies for irregular applications including graph applications and AMR applications, performance characterization and scalability studies, processor allocation, mapping and remapping for  large scale executions, middleware for production supercomputer systems, and fault tolerance for parallel applications. He has also worked with applications in climate science and visualization in collaboration with researchers working in these areas. Dr. Vadhiyar is a senior member of IEEE, professional member of ACM, and has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He was the program co-chair of HPC area in HiPC 2022, chair of senior member award committee of ACM, was an associate editor of IEEE TPDS, and served on the program committees of conferences related to parallel and grid computing including IPDPS, IEEE Cluster, CCGrid, ICPP, eScience and HiPC. Dr Vadhiyar is also an investigator in the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), a flagship project to create HPC ecosystem in India, where he manages the R&D projects related to HPC in the country.

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