Dr. Purushotham Bangalore is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Collaborative Computing Laboratory (CCL) in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). As Director of CCL, Dr. Bangalore undertakes research in the area of Grid Computing to support rapid grid-enablement of multidisciplinary applications and scheduling applications on the grid. He is also developing novel programming techniques to synthesize parallel programs for heterogeneous architectures such as the grid and next-generation High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.
He has worked for more than 18 years in several areas of HPC and grid computing including algorithms, object-oriented libraries, message-passing middleware, multidisciplinary applications, and integration systems. His areas of interest include scientific computing, scalable algorithms, performance evaluation and estimation, object oriented numerical libraries and middleware, computational portals, grid computing environments, parallel programming environments, and adaptive systems and applications.
He has published more than 50 referred articles and has served as program committee member for several conferences and workshops. He has also organized several workshops and short-courses on introduction to high performance computing and using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) as part of the Department of Defense (DOD) Programming Environments and Training (PET) program.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Introduction to Object Oriented Programming, Fundamentals of Unix Operating System, Competitive Programming Techniques, Operating Systems, Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, and Grid Computing.
Dr. Bangalore received a Ph.D. in Computational Engineering in May 2003 from Mississippi State University in Computational Engineering. He also has a M.S. degree in Computer Science (May 1995) from Mississippi State University and B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (October 1991) from Bangalore University, India.
