CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Andrew Chien

Professional Preparation

Andrew Chien
SAIC Chair Professor, Dept CSE
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114

Phone: (858) 822-2458
achien@cs.ucsd.edu
http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/individual/achien/achien.html

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Appointments:

• 1998-present - SAIC Chair Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Eng, UCSD
• 1998-present - Chief Technology Officer, Entropia Inc.
• 1998-present - Adjunct Professor, Dept of Computer Science, University of Illinois

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Synergistic Activities

Andrew Chien has authored over seventy publications in the areas of compilers, system software, networks and processor architecture of high-performance systems. Over the past fifteen years, Andrew Chien has been involved in numerous parallel computing architecture and software. As a graduate student at MIT, he participated in Arvind's tagged-token Dataflow Architecture project, and then Dally's J-Machine project, an early low-overhead message passing machine. As a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Andrew pursued a wealth of architecture, networking, and language implementation projects. Andrew is well known for his work on high speed cluster communication -- the Fast Messages (FM) and High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVM) systems which are the basis for a wealth of clustering research and NCSA's Windows NT Clustering efforts. These systems have also been widely disseminated around the world to over 500 academic, national laboratory, and commercial environments.

Andrew's early work on concurrent object-oriented programming systems began at MIT and continued at Illinois, providing key intellectual input to the pC++ project and the parallel software efforts of the Japanese Real World Computing Project (RWC) which led to the HPC++ standard. His Concert project developed a range of compiler and runtime techniques for fine-grained concurrent object-oriented languages and foreshadows aggressive type, cloning, and data structure optimizations which have yet to appear in commercial compilers for languages such as C++ and Java.

Selected Professional Activities
Editorial and Program Committees:

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Guest Editor, IEEE Computer Special Issue on Network Interfaces, 1998.
• Program Chair, ACM Symposium on the Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 1999.
• Program Vice Chairman, IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1995.
• Member, numerous program committees in compilers, object-oriented systems, computer architecture, etc.

Research Interests:

Parallel computer architecture, object-oriented programming, language implementation (compilers and runtime systems), distributed objects, operating systems, networks, and reconfigurable computing.

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award 1994; C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior
Faculty Award, 1995; Senior Xerox Award for Excellence in Research, 1996

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Invited/Keynote/Panel Talks:

SIAM Parallel Processing 2001, USENIX Windows 2000, Cluster 2000, SC'1999, 1999 SIGPLAN PPoPP Symposium, HiPC '98, ADASS '98, NATO Workshop on HPC 1998, HPCA 1998, DOE Scalable Clusters Workshop 1997, ONR PCRCW 1997, IPPS 1997, SIAM Parallel Processing, 1997, Frontiers 1996, IWPC++ 1996, IBM CASCON 1995, IPPS 1995, Frontiers 1995, ONR PCRCW 1994, Hot Interconnects 1993.

Five Closely Related Publications:

1. H. Song, X. Liu, D. Jakobsen, X. Zhang, K. Taura, and A. Chien, The MicroGrid: A Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids, finalist for Best Paper Award, SC'2000, Dallas, Texas, November 2000.
2. J. Dolby and Andrew A. Chien, Automatic Inlining Optimization and its Evaluation}, SIGPLAN Symposium on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2000.
3. B. Ganguly and Andrew A. Chien, High-Level Parallel Programming of An Adaptive Mesh Application Using the Illinois Concert System, in International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments, Sante Fe, New Mexico, December 8-11, 1998.
4. V. Karamcheti and Andrew A. Chien, A Hierarchical Load-Balancing Framework for Dynamic Multithreaded Computations, in SC '98: High Performance Networking and Computing Conference, November 1998, Orlando, Florida.
5. V. Karamcheti, J. Plevyak, and A. A. Chien, Runtime Mechanisms for Efficient Dynamic Multithreading, in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 37, pgs 21-40.

Five Other Significant Publications:

1. M. Lauria, S. Pakin, and Andrew A. Chien, Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: Fast Messages 2.x, in Proceedings of the Seventh High Performance Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC'7), Chicago, Illinois, July, 1998.
2. J. Dolby and Andrew A. Chien, An Evaluation of Object Inline Allocation Techniques, in the Proceedings of the 1998 Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Architectures Conference, (OOPSLA '98), October 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
3. Scott Pakin, Vijay Karamcheti, and Andrew A. Chien, Fast Messages: Efficient, Portable Communication for Workstation Clusters and Massively-Parallel Processors, in IEEE Concurrency, 1997.
4. Mario Lauria and Andrew A. Chien, MPI-FM: A High Performance MPI on Workstation Clusters, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 40, Number 1, January 1997.
5. Andrew A. Chien, Julian Dolby, Bishwaroop Ganguly, Vijay Karamcheti, and Xingbin Zhang, Evaluating High Level Parallel Programming Support for Irregular Applications in ICC++, in International Scientific Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments Conference (ISCOPE), Marina del Rey, December 1997, Springer-Verlag LNCS.

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