Sushil K. Prasad
Director, GEDC-GSU
Distributed and Mobile Systems (DiMoS) Laboratory
Chair, IEEE
Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
Professor of Computer Science
Georgia State
University
Sushil K. Prasad (BTech’85 IIT Kharagpur, MS’86 Washington State, Pullman;
PhD’90 Central Florida, Orlando - all in Computer
Science/Engineering) is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia State
University (GSU) and Director of GSU-GEDC Distributed and Mobile Systems (DiMoS) Lab hosted at Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta. He has carried out theoretical as well as experimental
research in parallel and distributed computing, resulting in 80+ refereed
publications, several patent applications, and about $1M in external
research funds as PI and over $4M overall
(NSF/NIH/GRA/Industry). Recently, Sushil
successfully led a multi-year, Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) funded
interdisciplinary research project with seven GSU faculty, three Georgia
Tech faculty, and over two dozen students on developing SyD
middleware for collaborative distributed computing over heterogeneous
mobile devices, resulting in several patents, dissertations, and
publications. As a result of this exemplary inter-institutional
collaboration, Georgia Tech/GRA continues to provide laboratory space and
infrastructure for Sushil’s DiMoS laboratory and a second research office. Sushil has been very active in the professional
community, serving on the organization of top conferences, on NSF and other
review panels, on advisory committees of conferences and State of Georgia
funding agency Yamacraw, and carrying out
editorial activities of conference proceedings and journal special
issues. Over the recent years, he has been drawn into major
professional service roles at several international parallel processing and
related conferences, including serving as Proceedings Chair for HiPC continuously for the last five years, as Tutorial
Chair of IPDPS for last two years (07-08), and as program committee member
for numerous conferences (IPDPS’05-07; CC-Grid’07;
HP-GRID/IPDPS’07, ICDCN’06, HPCS’06, ICA3PP’04-05,
HiPC’04, etc.). Sushil has received
invitations for talks from a variety of organizations nationally and
internationally (e.g., National Research Council, Canada, 2006) and for
funded research visits internationally (University of Melbourne and NICTA,
Australia, 2006; University of New Brunswick, Canada, 2005). In May
2007, he was conferred an Honorary Adjunct Professorship at University of
New Brunswick, Canada, for his collaborative research on ACENET project to
establish high performance computing infrastructures in Atlantic Canada.
Current
Research Interests: Parallel
and Distributed Computing - Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures,
Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Middleware and Collaborative
Applications for Heterogeneous Mobile Devices, and Web-based Distributed
and Collaborative Computing and Workflows.