Kamesh Madduri, a PhD student at the College of Computing has won aspecial mention at the ACM/IEEE-CS High Performance Computing Fellowsfor 2007. He has been invited to the SC 07 Award session on Thursday,November 16, in Reno, Nevada to receive a certificate documenting therecognition. The selection committee has informed him that it was veryimpressed with his "research excellence, academic progress, thepotential of his plan of study to enhance HPC-related skills and hisuse of HPC resources."

Madduri is a PhD candidate under Professor David Bader. His researchareas include high performance computing, parallel graph algorithms,computational biology and novel computer architectures. Hisdissertation is on efficiently solving large-scale graph traversal,centrality and shortest path problems on HPC systems. He has anundergraduate degree in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Madras.

About the HPC Fellowship Program

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program ia a fellowship fund forworthy students who are studying topics in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The selection committeehas representatives from the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEEComputer Society, the ACM Special Interest Group on ComputerArchitecture and the SC Conference Series.