Prasanna Balaprakash
Research Interests
Research Project
Awards and Fellowships
Curriculam Vitae
Education
Research Interests
Stochastic combinatorial optimization
High performance computing
Automatic tuning
Derivative free optimization
Mixed integer programming
Stochastic local search algorithms and metaheuristics
Rare-event simulation
Research Project
As advanced supercomputers move to the extreme scale, customary compiler optimization techniques will become both prohibitively expensive and unable to achieve the levels of performance gains needed. This is because the number of decision parameters that must be chosen rapidly grows as codes and architectures become more complex, and the computational expense of running these codes rules out enumeration.
My research in automatic tuning of computer codes will help overcome these limitations by directly optimizing the performance of the codes on the desired extreme scale machine. The main goal of my research work is to develop effective optimization methods for automatic tuning of high performance computing codes on future extreme scale architectures.
Awards and Fellowships
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NSF SIAM Travel Award for SIAM conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Savannah, GA, February 15-17, 2012.
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F.N.R.S. Chargé de recherches fellowship from Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgian Funds for National Research) for postdoctoral researcher position, from October 2010 to September 2013. (Declined to accept postdoctoral researcher position at Argonne National Laboratory.)
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F.N.R.S. Aspirant fellowship from Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique for pursuing a Ph.D. degree, from October 2006 to September 2008.
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Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission through the Fifth Framework Human Resources and Mobility Programme for pursuing a Ph.D. degree, from November 2004 to September 2006.
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International student scholarship for the best academic performance from Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany, from April 2003 to March 2004.
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Graduated Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science in First class with Distinction from Periyar university, Salem, India.
Curriculam Vitae
CV as of November 2012. [PDF]
Education
Doctoral
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences |
| Faculty | IRIDIA, CoDE, Faculté des sciences appliquées |
| Institution | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Thesis | Estimation-based metaheuristics for stochastic combinatorial optimization: Case studies in stochastic routing problems |
| Supervisor | Prof. Marco Dorigo |
| Co-supervisors | Dr. Mauro Birattari and Dr. Thomas Stützle |
| Conclusion | January 2010 |
Pre-doctoral
| Degree | Master of Advanced Studies (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Sciences Appliquées) |
| Faculty | IRIDIA, CoDE, Faculté des sciences appliquées |
| Institution | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Thesis | Ant Colony Optimization under Uncertainty |
| Supervisor | Prof. Marco Dorigo |
| Co-supervisor | Dr. Mauro Birattari |
| Conclusion | September 2005 |
| Degree | Master of Science in Computer Science |
| Faculty | Institut für Simulation und Graphik, Fakultät für Informatik |
| Institution | Otto von Guericke - Universität Magdeburg, Germany |
| Thesis | Preprocessing of Petri nets and improved storage strategy for proxel based simulation |
| Supervisor | Prof. Graham Horton |
| Co-supervisor | Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar |
| Conclusion | May 2004 |
| Degree | Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science |
| Faculty | Department of Computer Science |
| Institution | Vinayaka Missions, Periyar University Salem, India |
| Conclusion | May 2002 |