Guy Blelloch

Guy Blelloch
Alma materSwarthmore College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsACM Fellow
IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
ThesisVector Models for Data-Parallel Computing (1988)
Doctoral advisorCharles E. Leiserson
Doctoral studentsVirginia 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]

Education and career[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ "Guy Blelloch". Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lovos, Milagros (2021-02-03). "Guy Blelloch". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  3. ^ a b 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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