Prasanna Balaprakash
Research Interests
Research Project
Awards and Fellowships
Curriculam Vitæ
Education
Research Interests
High-performance computing, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Automatic tuning, Derivative-free approaches for numerical optimization, and Stochastic local search algorithms for combinatorial optimization
Research
My research interests span the areas of machine learning, numerical optimization, and performance engineering. Currently, my research focus is on the design, development, and analysis of algorithms for solving large-scale problems that arise in automating the tuning of computer codes and on computationally expensive design-space explorations.Awards and Fellowships
- Best paper award, 21st High Performance Computing Symposia (HPC), The Society for Modeling & Simulation International, San Diego, April 2013.
- NSF/SIAM travel award, for SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Savannah, GA, February 15-17, 2012.
- F.N.R.S. chargé de recherches fellowship, from the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research from October 2010 to September 2013 (one of the most competitive postdoctoral fellowships in Belgium). Declined in order to accept postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory.
- F.N.R.S. aspirant fellowship, from the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research, from October 2006 to September 2008 (one of the most competitive Ph.D. fellowships in Belgium).
- Marie Curie fellowship, from the European Commission through the fifth framework human resources and mobility program, from November 2004 to September 2006 (one of the most competitive Ph.D. fellowships at the European level).
- International student scholarship, for the best academic performance from Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany, from April 2003 to March 2004 (scholarship awarded every year to the top two international students).
- First class with distinction, Bachelor of Engineering, Periyar University, India, May 2002.
Curriculam Vitæ
CV as of December 2014. [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 |