Bio
David A. Bader is Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and served on the White House’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) panel. Dr. Bader serves as a board member of the Computing Research Association, on the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, on the Council on Competitiveness High Performance Computing Advisory Committee, on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, and on the Steering Committees of the IPDPS and HiPC conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. Dr. Bader is a leading expert in data sciences. His interests are at the intersection of high-performance computing and real-world applications, including cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics, and computational genomics, and he has co-authored over 190 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. During his career, Dr. Bader has served as PI/coPI of over $179M of competitive awards with over $41.1M of this brought into his institution. (Since joining Georgia Tech in 2005, he’s been PI/coPI of over $92.9M with $28.8M at Georgia Tech – approximately $2.5M/year sustained over the past 12 years. And he’s received over $1.5M from industrial partners into the Georgia Tech Foundation.) Dr. Bader has served as a lead scientist in several DARPA programs including High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) with IBM PERCS, Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) with NVIDIA ECHELON, Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS), Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT), and Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE). He has also served as Director of the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor. Bader is a co-founder of the Graph500 List for benchmarking “Big Data” computing platforms. Bader is recognized as a “RockStar” of High Performance Computing by InsideHPC and as HPCwire’s People to Watch in 2012 and 2014. Dr. Bader also serves as an associate editor for several high impact publications including IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, and ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. He successfully launched his school’s Strategic Partnership Program in 2015, whose partners include Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cray, IBM, Keysight Technologies, LexisNexis, Northrop Grumman, NVIDIA, and Yahoo; as well as the National Security Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.