Abhinav Bhatele Wins IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award

Abhinav Bhatele, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), has been awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Middle Career Researchers (MCR). 

The award is given to individuals who have demonstrated significant and influential contributions to the field of scalable computing, particularly those within 5 to 15 years of receiving their Ph.D. The committee recognizes up to three individuals annually who have made noteworthy contributions that are expected to have a long-lasting impact in the domain of scalable computing with applications. 

Bhatele’s recognition in this category highlights his substantial work in high-performance computing (HPC), where he has been active in developing innovative methods for optimizing the performance of parallel applications and the operational efficiency of supercomputers and HPC clusters.

In 2021, Bhatele received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to support his efforts to use data-driven machine learning (ML) models to identify performance anomalies and their root causes in parallel systems. 

Before his stint at UMD, which began in 2019, Bhatele contributed as a principal computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Bhatele received his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010.

—Story by Samuel Malede Zewdu, CS Communications