Lawrence Rauchwerger

Lawrence Rauchwerger
Born	Romania
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stanford University Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest
Known for	Parallel computing Compilers Computer architecture
Awards	IEEE Fellow 2012 IBM Faculty Award (2007) (2008) Intel Faculty Award (2005) NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (1998–2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor	David Padua
Website	cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/rwerger

Lawrence Rauchwerger is an American computer scientist noted for his research in parallel computing, compilers, and computer architecture. He is an ACM Distinguished Member. ^[1] and the deputy director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at Texas A&M University. He is the co-director of the Parasol Lab and manages the lab's software and systems group.

Rauchwerger co-leads the STAPL project with his wife Dr. Nancy M. Amato, who is also a computer scientist on the faculty at Texas A&M. STAPL is a parallel C++ library. ^{[2] [3]}

Biography

Rauchwerger received a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania in 1980. His diploma project was titled Design and Implementation of an Alphanumeric and Graphic Display. He received a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1987, where his research area was manufacturing science and technology for VLSI (equipment modeling). He received a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 where his dissertation title was Run-Time Parallelization: A Framework for Parallel Computation. ^[4]

He then joined the Center for Supercomputing R&D at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting assistant professor in 1995. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor in 1996. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and to professor in 2006.

Awards

In 2012, Rauchwerger was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to thread-level speculation, parallelizing compilers, and parallel libraries". ^[5]

His paper, "Adaptive Reduction Parallelization Techniques", was selected to be included in the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 25th Anniversary Volume, 2014. It was one of 35 papers selected out of the 1800 papers published by this conference in the last 25 years. ^[6]

His other notable awards include:

• Texas A&M Computer Science Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, 2014.
• Texas A&M College of Engineering Teaching, Service, and Contribution Award, 2014.
• Halliburton Professorship, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2009.
• IBM Faculty Award, 2007 and 2008.
• Intel Faculty Award, 2005.
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 1998–2002.
• TEES Fellow, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002, 2005.
• TEES Select Young Faculty Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2000.

References

1. Virginia Gold (December 4, 2014). "ACM's Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators Cited for Global Reach, Real-World Impact: 2014 Members Recognized for Contributions to Hardware, Software and Communications". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 12, 2026.
2. Tanase, Gabriel; Buss, Antal; Fidel, Adam; Harshvardhan; Papadopoulos, Ioannis; Pearce, Olga; Smith, Timmie; Thomas, Nathan; Xu, Xiabing; Mourad, Nedhal; Vu, Jeremy; Bianco, Mauro; Amato, Nancy M.; Rauchwerger, Lawrence (August 2011). "The STAPL Parallel Container Framework". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 46 (8): 235–246. doi:10.1145/2038037.1941586. hdl: 1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8753 .
3. Harshvardhan; Fidel, Adam; Amato, Nancy M.; Rauchwerger, Lawrence (2013). "The STAPL Parallel Graph Library". In Kasahara, Hironori; Kimura, Keiji (eds.). Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 25th International Workshop, LCPC 2012, Tokyo, Japan, September 11–13, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7760. Springer. pp. 46–60. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37658-0_4. ISBN   978-3-642-37657-3.
4. Rauchwerger, Lawrence. "CV" (PDF). Parasol Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
5. "2012 Newly Elevated Fellows" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
6. Yu, Hao; Rauchwerger, Lawrence (June 2014). "Adaptive reduction parallelization techniques". 25th Anniversary International Conference on Supercomputing Anniversary Volume -. pp. 311–322. doi:10.1145/2591635.2667180. ISBN   9781450328401. S2CID   52865514.