Dinesh Kaushik received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in December 2002 and immediately assumed a research staff position at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, where he had been performing internships as a student prior to graduating. Earlier in his ODU career, Kaushik had been a fellow in the Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) group of the CS Department.
Kaushik, advised by Professor David Keyes and two colleagues at Argonne with whom Kaushik and Keyes shared the 1999 Gordon Bell Prize at the annual international Supercomputing'XY Conference, wrote his thesis about performance modeling for simulations based on unstructured grids and executed on distributed, hierarchical memory computer systems. The vast majority of the world's most powerful computers are of this type, networking thousands of cache-based processors in a single computation. Kaushik had been an aerospace engineer in India's space agency, ISRO, prior to coming to graduate school at ODU. At Argonne, Kaushik continues to work on performance modeling for simulation codes on new hardware platforms.
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