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Feng receives fellowship. Wu Feng has recently been awarded a Turner Fellowship by Virginia Tech's College of Engineering. This five year fellowship was established by James Turner, past president and chief operating officer of General Dynamics and former rector of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. It recognizes outstanding research accomplishments and activity.
GSA research symposium. Congratulations to PhD students Karim Elish and Hari Pyla for receiving recognition in the annual VT Graduate Student Association (GSA) Research Symposium. Karim (advised by Danfeng Yao) won a first place award in the poster competition, and Hari (advised by Srinidhi Varadarajan) won a second place award in the oral competition.
Aji named NVIDIA graduate fellow. Congratulations to PhD student Ashwin Aji who has been awarded an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. Ashwin was awarded a 2012-2013 fellowship to support his research in high-performance computing. He was one of only twelve students selected in this highly competitive worldwide competition. Aji is advised by Wu Feng.
HokieSpeed makes its debut. Ranked at #96 on the just released TOP500 list, and #11 on the Green500, VT's newest supercomputer is now ready for prime time. Congratulations to project leader Wu Feng and his team for bringing the installation and benchmarking phase of the HokieSpeed project to completion, and making this powerful GPU/CPU cluster available to computer science researchers and computational scientists and engineers.
OOPSLA awards. Congratulations to PhD student Hari Pyla who won two prestigious student awards at the recent SPLASH/OOPSLA conference in Portland, OR. Hari won first place in the Doctoral Symposium, which resulted in him receiving the John Vlissides Award, in recognition of his research in safe concurrent programming. Hari also won the ACM student research (poster) competition held at SPLASH. Hari is advised by Srinidhi Varadarajan.
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March 30, 2012
Feng receives fellowship. Wu Feng has recently been awarded a Turner Fellowship by Virginia Tech's College of Engineering. This five year fellowship was established by James Turner, past president and chief operating officer of General Dynamics and former rector of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. It recognizes outstanding research accomplishments and activity.
March 29, 2012
GSA research symposium. Congratulations to PhD students Karim Elish and Hari Pyla for receiving recognition in the annual VT Graduate Student Association (GSA) Research Symposium. Karim (advised by Danfeng Yao) won a first place award in the poster competition, and Hari (advised by Srinidhi Varadarajan) won a second place award in the oral competition.
March 22, 2012
Aji named NVIDIA graduate fellow. Congratulations to PhD student Ashwin Aji who has been awarded an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. Ashwin was awarded a 2012-2013 fellowship to support his research in high-performance computing. He was one of only twelve students selected in this highly competitive worldwide competition. Aji is advised by Wu Feng.
November 28, 2011
HokieSpeed makes its debut. Ranked at #96 on the just released TOP500 list, and #11 on the Green500, VT's newest supercomputer is now ready for prime time. Congratulations to project leader Wu Feng and his team for bringing the installation and benchmarking phase of the HokieSpeed project to completion, and making this powerful GPU/CPU cluster available to computer science researchers and computational scientists and engineers.
November 8, 2011
OOPSLA awards. Congratulations to PhD student Hari Pyla who won two prestigious student awards at the recent SPLASH/OOPSLA conference in Portland, OR. Hari won first place in the Doctoral Symposium, which resulted in him receiving the John Vlissides Award, in recognition of his research in safe concurrent programming. Hari also won the ACM student research (poster) competition held at SPLASH. Hari is advised by Srinidhi Varadarajan.
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