Yong Chen Named 2008 ACM/IEEE High Performance Computing Fellow
IIT Today October 20, 2008

Computer science Ph.D. candidate Yong Chen has been selected as one of three ACM/IEEE CS High Performance Computing Fellows for 2008, the inaugural year for the fellowship, awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH), and the SC (Supercomputing) Conference Series. Yong will receive $5,000 for education expenses, $1,600 for travel expenses to the SC08 and/or SC09 conferences, and a certificate documenting the award.



The fellowship was established to encourage the development of the next generation of supercomputing professionals, as recommended by the National Research Council and other groups. ACM/IEEE CS High Performance Computing Fellows are chosen on the basis of:



• Their overall potential for research excellence

• The degree to which their technical interests align with those of the HPC community

• Their academic progress to date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head as well as a plan of study to enhance HPC-related skills

• Demonstration of their anticipated use of HPC resources



Chen's research for this fellowship is "A Hybrid Data Prefetching Architecture for Data Access Efficiency." He will attend the SC08 Award Session in November in Austin, TX, and deliver a report on his work at the SC09 conference in Portland in November 2009. Chen's adviser is Computer Science Professor Xian-He Sun.



The HPC Fellowship Selection Subcommittee included Mr. William Kramer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dr. Charles Koelbel, Rice University; and Dr. Scott Lathrop, Argonne National Laboratory.