Rick Stevens
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
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Computing, Environment and Life Sciences The University of Chicago |
Rick Stevens is associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences. He heads Argonne's advanced computing initiative targeting the development of petaflop/s computing systems. He is also a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago and is senior fellow of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute, a multidisciplinary institute aimed at connecting computing to all areas of inquiry at the University and the Laboratory. In addition, he heads the Argonne/Chicago Futures Lab, a research group he started in 1994 to investigate problems in large-scale scientific visualization and advanced collaboration environments (his group in the Futures Lab has developed the widely deployed Access Grid collaboration system.
Prof. Stevens is interested in the development of innovative tools and techniques that enable computational scientists to solve important large-scale problems effectively on advanced scientific computers. Specifically, his research focuses on three principal areas: advanced collaboration and visualization environments, high-performance computer architectures (including Grids), and computational problems in the life sciences, most recently the computational problems arising in systems biology. In addition to his research work, Prof. Stevens teaches courses on computer architecture, collaboration technology, virtual reality, parallel computing, and computational science.
Current Professional Activities and Program Organizing Committees
- 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Program Committee, 1998
- 11th International Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Chairman, (Sept. 2-4, 1998), 1998
- POWR Workshop (Petaflops Systems Operations Working Review), Program Committee, June 2-5, 1998
- Adjunct ANL Representative, SLCC (System for Labs Computing Coordinating Committee), 1998
- Hybrid Technology Multithreaded Computer Architecture for Petaflops Computing (HTMT), Advisory Committee, 1998
- DOE-ER Computational Sciences Core Working Group, Committee Member, 1998
- State of the Fields Sessions, Supercomputing '98, Chair, November 8-13, 1998
- International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS 98), Program Committee, March 30-April 3, 1998
- Deep Computing Institute, IBM Research (member, Executive Board), 1999-2005
- 2nd Conference on Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing, 1999
- 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Processing Frontiers '99, Program Committee, 1999
- 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999
- University of New Mexico, Computer Science Advisory Committee, 1999
- Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR), External Advisory Committee, 1999
- Supercomputing '99, Technical Papers Committee, November 13-19, 1999
- VA Linux Systems Advisory Council, 1999
- Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, Executive Committee Member 1999
- Senior Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, 2000-present
- National Computational Science Alliance, Chief Architect, 2000-2005
- Chair of the NSF STARTAP Advisory Committee, March 2000
- Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA2000), Program Committee, 2000
- HPDC2000, Program Committee, 2000
- Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee, October 2000-2006
- Advisory Board for Insors Communication, 2000-present
- Strategic Planning Group for Center for Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, 2000-2005
- BioComputing 2001, DOE, Steering Committee, 2001
- Board of Computing Activities and Services (BCAS), University of Chicago, Member 2001-2004
- Elsevier:Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Editorial board, October 2002–Present
- IPDPS'2005, The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Program Committee, Denver, Colorado, 2005
- NSF Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Group, 2004
- US/UK ETF Experiments Steering Committee, 2004
- International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics." The Symposium, Program Committee, 2005
- Council on Competitiveness Advisory Committee for High Energy performance Computing, 2006-present
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Director's Review of Computing Science, May 25-26, 1999, April 12-13, 2000, and Sept. 20-22, 2006
- SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Program Committee, 2007
- SciDAC PI Chair, 2007
Research Projects and Program Management
- DOE Mathematics and Computational Sciences Program
- Computing and Communications Infrastructure Futures Laboratory
- Advanced Visualization Technology Center, DOE, Defense Programs
- National Computational Science Alliance, NSF PACI Program
- HTMT Petaflops Design Project, DARPA
- NCSA Alliance
- ASCI Advanced Visualization Technology Center
- Corridor One: An Integrated Distance Visualization Environment for SSI and ASCI Applications
- The Computation Institute
- Teragrid, NSF, 2001-2004
- A Data Intense Challenge: The Instrumented Oilfield of the future, NSF, 2002-2006
- NMI - Extensible Network Services for the AccessGrid, NSF, 2002-2004
- Acquisition of TeraPort: A Grid Enabled Analysis Platform with Optical Connectivity, NSF, 2003– 2006
- Bioterrorism: Molecular Analysis and Intervention, NIH, 2003– 2005
- Advanced Biomedical Tele–Collaboration Testbed in Surgery, Anesthesia, and Emergency Medicine, National Library of Medicine 2003–2006
- Towards a Digital Psychology Laboratory, University of Chicago, 2003–2004
- Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, NIH/NIAID, 2003–2005
- Teragrid Early Operations, NSF, 2004–2005
- Establishing a National Leadership Computing Facility: A Partnership in Computational Sciences, DOE, 2004–2008
- National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR) Center in Support of Infectious Disease Research, NIH, 2004–2007
- Social Informatics Data (SID) Grid, NSF, 2005-2007
- Dynamic Adaptive Multithreading, NSF, 2005-2009
Selected Presentations
University of Chicago Round Table, Computers and biology, Chicago, IL, May 16, 2006 [pdf]
United Kingdom – High Performance Computer Users Meeting, Biology and High-Performance Computing, September 30, 2002 [pdf]
Global Grid Forum 5, Basic BioGrid, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2002 [pdf]
Century in Science Seminar, Computing, Communications, and You: The Next 10 Years and Beyond, Graham Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 21, 2001 [pdf]
Fermi National Laboratory, Large Clusters for Particle Physics, March 26, 2001
Fermilab/JLab Workshop, Lattice OCD with Commodity Clusters, Future Directions of Commodity Technology based Computational Clusters, March 21, 2001
University of California at Davis Distinguished Lecture Series, Active Spaces: The Access Grid, Active Mural and Advanced Visualization Systems, Davis, CA, March 15, 2001
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, The Ten Hottest Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing for the Next Millennium, Some Hot Issues for the Millennium, Cancun, Mexico, May 1-5, 2000 [ppt]
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics Workshop, Computation Challenges in Atomic and Molecular Physics, Future Directions in Computer and Systems Architecture for Scientific Computing, Boston, MA, May 4-6, 2000 [ppt]
American Physical Society Meeting, (This presentation was part of a symposium on PC Clusters for Computational Science - Theory and Practice.), Which Node For Your Cluster?, Minnesota, March 20-24, 2000 [pdf]
Panel Discussion at SC'99 of Challenges and Opportunities of the Scalable Information Infrastructure, Scalable Information Infrastructure and the Testbeds Needed for their Deployment, Portland Oregon - November 19, 1999
