Guy Blelloch

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Guy Blelloch
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Blelloch in 2004
Alma mater Swarthmore College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards ACM Fellow
IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing  (1988)
Doctoral advisor Charles E. Leiserson
Doctoral students Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Guy Edward Blelloch is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] He is known for his work in parallel algorithms. [2]

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Education and career

Blelloch went to Swarthmore College and graduated in 1983 with a BA in Physics and BS in Engineering. [2] He then pursued a PhD in Computer Science at MIT and was advised by Charles E. Leiserson. [3] He graduated in 1988 with a dissertation titled Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing. [2] [3]

Blelloch joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1988 [2] and has taught courses on parallel algorithms and data structures. [4] From 2016 to 2020, he was also the associate dean of undergraduate studies. [2]

Awards and recognitions

Blelloch was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2011. [5]

He was the recipient of 2021 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award in recognition of "contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them". [2]

He was the recipient of the 2023 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for "contributions to algorithm engineering, including the Ligra, GBBS, and Aspen frameworks which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines". [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Guy Blelloch". Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lovos, Milagros (2021-02-03). "Guy Blelloch". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  3. 1 2 Blelloch, Guy (1990). Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing (Computer Science thesis). The MIT Press. ISBN   9780262023139 . Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  4. ↑ "Guy Blelloch". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  5. ↑ "Guy Blelloch". Association of Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  6. ↑ "Contributors to Algorithm Engineering Receive Kanellakis Award". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-19.


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