Sidharth Kumar

Assistant Professor at UAB CS
sid14@uab.edu

My research lies at the intersection of HPC, Data Analytics and AI. More broadly, I work on problems in parallel computing, big data processing, parallel I/O, scalable algorithms, large data file formats and performance modeling.



Sidharth Kumar

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About me

As an undergraduate at DAIICT, I was fascinated by computer graphics, ultimately leading me to join The University of Utah. While at the U, I spent a summer at Argonne National Lab, where I was exposed to the world of supercomputing. I was thrilled by the idea of using supercomputers to solve computationally massive problems. Ever since, I have worked at the intersection of HPC, analytics and visualization, helping domain scientists extract knowledge from massive amounts of complex data.

I am an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science at University of Alabama, Birmingham. I was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the SCI Institute at the University of Utah. I received my B.Tech. in Information and communication technology from DAIICT, India and my Ph.D. in Computing from the University of Utah.

I am working on problems at the intersection of High performance computing and large-scale data management. More specefically, I am interested in large data processing, scientific visualization, scalable algorithms, large data file formats, interactive techniques, for data analysis and high performance computing.




Education
  • Ph.D. in Computing (2016)
    Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
    Advisor: Valerio Pascucci
    Committee Members: Martin Berzins, Mary Hall, Feifi li, Venkatram Vishwanath

  • Bachelor of Technology in Information and Communication Technology (2009)
    DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India
    Advisors: Gautam Dutta and Naresh Jotwani