Presenter

Dr. Howie Huang is a Professor of Computer Engineering and the Director of the X-Computing Lab at the George Washington University. Motivated by the needs of big data and cybersecurity applications, he works at the intersection of algorithm, computer system, and hardware design, with recent research focus on developing high-performance computing and machine learning techniques tailored for large-scale graph datasets. His work on graph traversal has ranked highly on both the Graph500 and Green Graph500 benchmarks, which measure the performance and energy efficiency of the most powerful data-intensive supercomputers in the world. Dr. Huang is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NVIDIA Academic Partnership Award, Comcast Technology Research and Development Fund Award, and IBM Real Time Innovation Faculty Award.