Dr. Padma Raghavan
Director, Institute for CyberScience
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Office: 343K IST Building
Phone/Voice Mail: (814) 865-9233
Fax: (814) 865-3176

Office Hours : 
M 8:00 -9:00 a.m.
T/Th 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
 		 E-mail address: raghavan@cse.psu.edu
US mail address:Computer Science and Engineering,343K IST Building
University Park, PA 16802

Staff:  Louise Troxell slt29@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-1467
Fax: 814-863-9659

Padma Raghavan is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. In addition, she is the Director of the Institute for CyberScience which is organized under the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and charged with promoting multidisciplinary research and education on discovery and design through computational modeling, simulation and data analysis.

Research

Raghavan's research concerns sparsity as a unifying abstraction from computational science to computer architecture, toward increasing computational performance by constant factors to orders of magnitude. Sparse representations of data arise from many different contexts, for example, from partial differential equations models where an associated matrix is populated mostly with zeroes and the number of nonzeroes in the matrix is bounded by a small constant times its dimension, or from largely local connections in a system represented as a sparse graph or network. Her publications concern: parallel scientific computing; energy-aware supercomputing, i.e., performance and power scalability of advanced computer systems; and computational modeling, simulation and knowledge extraction.

  • Click here for
    an overview of some recent results (pdf).
  • Click here for
    Raghavan's complete CV (pdf).
  • Click here for
    parallel sparse solver software.
  • Click here for
    some recent presentations.

    • Education

    Spring 2009
  • CSE 598C Sparse Scientific Computing: A Focus on Performance Modeling

    • Recently Taught Courses (password protected)
  • CSE 598C Sparse Matrix Computations
  • CSE 598F Advanced Scientific Computing
  • CSE 557 Concurrent Scientific Computing

  • CS 455 Numerical Analysis I
  • CS 456 Numerical Analysis II
  • CSE 457 Concurrent Scientific Computing

    • Recent Professional Activities (Partial List)

  • Associate Editor, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing (SISC) SIAM SISC.
  • Co-Editor, with M. H. Heroux,   and H. D. Simon,     Parallel Processing For Scientific Computing, SIAM book series on Software, Tools, and Environments.
  • Member, Program Committee, 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • Member, Program Committee and Chair, Doctoral Showcase IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2009 (SC'09)
  • Member, Program Committee, The Eighteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
  • Member, Program Committee 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting
  • Member, Program Committee International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Scientific And Industrial Applications (Precond'09)
  • Member, Program Committee, SIAM Text Mining 2009 Text Mining at Siam Data Mining 2009.
  • Member, Program Committee, ICPP-2009, International Conference on Parallel Processing
  • General Co-Chair, with M. H. Heroux,   and H. D. Simon,     The Eleventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. Click here for the SIAM News article about the conference.
  • Co-Chair, with Heidi Kwinge, Workshops and Panels Committee, 2006 Grace Hopper Conference.