Congratulations to students, Jim King and Tom Gilray, along with Robert M. Kirby and Matt Might for their best paper award at International SuperComputing PRACE-ISC 2016
Dynamic Sparse-Matrix Allocation on GPUs
James King, Thomas Gilray, Robert M. Kirby and Matthew Might
Congratulations to Robert M. Kirby, Martin Berzins, Valerio Pascucci, Rob Ricci and Eric Eide who were recently honored at this years Celebrate U: A Showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements event. The event highlighted University of Utah faculty who reached a pinnacle of professional success in 2015. Faculty honored had authored a book, were primary contributors to a realized creative work, or were the top-funded researchers in their college.
Book
Etiene, Tiago, Robert M. Kirby, and Cláudio T. Silva. An Introduction to Verification of Visualization Techniques. San Rafael: Morgan & Claypool, 2015.
Top faculty research awards and grant recipients
Martin Berzins (College of Engineering), Robert M. Kirby (College of Engineering), Dmitry Bedrov (College of Engineering), and Valeria Molinero (College of Science), co-Principal Investigators. Alliance for Computationally-Guided Design of Energy Efficient Electronic Materials.
Eric Eide (College of Engineering) and Robert P. Ricci (College of Engineering), co-principal Investigators. CI-EN: Revitalizing Emulab for Modern Networking and Systems Research.
Valerio Pascucci (College of Engineering) and James Sutherland (College of Engineering), co-principal investigators. Scalable Algorithms for Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of Turbulent Combustion.
Congratulations to Ali Shafiee on receiving a University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship. Shafiee is a PhD student in Utah Arch group working with Rajeev Balasubramonian.
Matthew Might, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Adviser to President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
School of Computing, University of Utah
“An Algorithm for Precision Medicine: What do you do when you’re the first and only?”
Date: April 5, 2016
Place: SMBB Auditorium
Time:3:00-5:00pm
University of Utah
James L. Sorenson Molecular
Biotechnology Building – USTAR
3:00pm – Facility Tour, SMBB Atrium
4:00pm – Presentation, SMBB Auditorium
RSVP by March 31 to CJohns@parsonsbehle.com
Special thanks to:
The Might Family,
The University of Utah College of Engineering,
The Moran Eye Center, and Parsons Behle & Latimer Law Offi ces
Professor Matt Might has joined the Executive Office of the President at the White House to serve as an Advisor for the Precision Medicine Initiative. In this role, Matt will deploy his broad expertise in computer science and genomic medicine toward a successful launch and scaling of the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative.
Spearheaded by Professor Might, whose son has a rare disease, the Patient Empowered Precision Medicine Alliance (PEPMA) joins researchers from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, School of Computing and University of Utah spin-out biotech company Recursion Pharmaceuticals with researchers from Boston’s Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Pairnomix LLC. The project will lay the groundwork for a pipeline that rapidly matches patients with the right drugs for their condition, at a relatively low cost.
To read more about the Patient Empowered Precision Medicine Alliance and Professor Might’s involvement read here.