Presenter

Erik Saule (BS'03 University of Versailles, France, MS'05, PhD'08 Grenoble Institute of Technology, France) is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of UNC Charlotte. Dr. Saule was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University. His research interests revolve around the efficient use of modern computing platforms for compute-intensive or data-intensive applications. Naturally, Dr. Saule's works span from theoretical subject such as multi objective optimization, approximation algorithms, scheduling, graph algorithms to practical ones such as parallel computing, middleware and the use of accelerators. He authored and coauthored over 60 refereed publications and has been awarded over $1M of federal funding, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award. He served in the past as Program Chair and General Chair of HCW, was the chair of the Experiencing HPC for Undergraduate program at SC17, and currently serves as workshop chair of IPDPS 18.