Present Positions

Professor I, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers University

Founder & Director, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI²)

Founding Co-Director, NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center (CAC), Univ. of Florida, Univ. of Arizona & Rutgers University

Associate Director, Rutgers Center for Information Assurance, Rutgers University

Member of Graduate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University

Research Interests

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering, Applied Parallel & Distributed Computing (Cloud, Grid, HPC), Extreme-scale Computing, Autonomic Computing, Datacenter Provisioning and Management, Application-aware Power/Energy Management, Pervasive Computational Ecosystems

Selected Activities, Achievements, Awards and Honors

Competitive Awards:

�       IBM Faculty Award (2008 and 2010) – IBM awards approximately 150 faculty awards every year worldwide and across all disciplines.

�       Tewkesbury Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia, (2006)

�       CAREER Award, National Science Foundation of the United States, 2000 – 2004.

�       Enrico Fermi Award, Argonne National Laboratory (1996)

�       Distinguished Fellowships from the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin in 1999, 2000 and 2001

�       Winner of the 4^th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2011, May 2011)

�       Best paper award at leading IEEE/ACM conferences (Supercomputing '92, '01, and Grid '09)

�       Best published paper in 2006 by the Australian Computer Society (ACS)

�       Top sited article in the Advanced Engineering Informatics Journal, Elsevier Publishers during the 2005 – 2010 period

Honors and Awards from Professional Societies:

�       Elected AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and its application to the advancement of computational science and engineering in 2012

�       Elected Co-Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), April 2011

�       Elevated to IEEE Fellow by the IEEE Computer Society for contributions to parallel and distributed computing in 2011

�       Outstanding Leadership Awards form the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012

�       Outstanding Service Awards from the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) in 2009, 2010 and 2011

�       Vice Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2007 – 2011

�       Member of Advisory Board and Awards Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2007 – Present.

�       Member of the IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) during 2004 – 2006

�       Senior Member of ACM

National and International Visiting Appointments:

�       Visiting Professor, Faculty of Business, Computing and Law, University of Derby, UK (2012 -- Present)

�       Visiting Professor, Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore (2012)

�       Visiting Researcher, e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK (2008 – 2010)

�       Visiting Faculty, Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Images et Systemes d'information (LIRIS), Lyon France, 2008 – 2009.

�       Visiting scholarships from the Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany (1996, 1997, 1999)

�       Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology, USA (2000 – 2001)

�       Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, USA (1998)

Awards and Recognition within Rutgers:

�       Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004 – 2005)

�       Research Outreach and Recognition Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011)

�       Award for Excellence in PhD Mentorship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2012)

Miscellaneous Honors:

�       Organized Indo-US Workshop on Virtual Institutes for Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering, Bangaluru, India, December 2011.

�       Expert panelist at the Congressional briefing on The Cloud of Things: The Next Phase of Computing at the Congressional Research & Development Caucus co-chaired by Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) and Rush Holt (D-N.J.), September 2011.

�       Member, Resource Advisory Committee, NIH National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR), 2011 – Present.

�       Invited Participant, DOE/DOD Workshop on Emerging High Performance Architectures and Applications, Washington DC, November 2007.

�       Invited speaker, Science on Saturdays, Princeton University PPPL Lecture Series, Princeton, NJ, February 2004.

�       Invited speaker, Workshop on Emerging and Future Computing Paradigms and their Impact on the Research, Training and Design Environments of the Aerospace Workforce, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, March 2003.

�       Established (in collaboration with W. Chaovalitwongse et al.) the Rutgers Center for Information Assurance, an NSA Center for Academic Excellence.

�       Established NSF funded National Research Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) in collaboration with The University of Florida, the University of Arizona and Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey).

�       Invited Participant, DOE/DOD Workshop on Emerging High Performance Architectures and Applications, Washington DC, November 2007.

�       Co-Chair, System Software Working Group, NSF Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS), Arlington, VA, January 2006.

�       Selected as 1999 Summer Faculty Researcher at the AFRL/IF, Rome, NY (declined).

�       Phi Beta Delta Honor Society, Syracuse University, 1994.

�       Graduate Scholarship, Syracuse University, 1990-94

�       Best Graduating Student Award, Bombay University, 1988

�       Highest Merit in Electronics & Telecommunications Scholarship, Bombay University, 1988