Dr. Padma Raghavan
Director, Institute for CyberScience
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University

Postdoc positions available. Contact Raghavan by e-mail.
Office: 343K IST Building
Phone/Voice Mail: (814) 865-9233
Fax: (814) 865-3176

Office Hours (Spring 2012) : 
T/Th 4:00 - 4:40 p.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 conducts research in high performance computing and its applications for cyber-enabled discovery and design.
Research by Raghavan's group at the Scalable Computing Lab (SCL) concerns sparsity as a unifying abstraction toward increasing computational performance by constant factors to orders of magnitude. Sparse representations of data arise from many different contexts, for example, from largely local connections in a system represented as a sparse graph or network or from partial differential equations models where the number of nonzeroes in an associated matrix is bounded by a small constant times its dimension.
Raghavan's work impacts cyber-enabled discovery and design "at scale" in various disciplines, for example, physics-based simulations in mechanics and materials by design, and more recently scalable systems for computational social science.
  • Click here for Raghavan's complete CV (pdf).

    • Research Lab, Publications and Software

  • Scalable Parallel Algorithms including scalable sparse solvers
  • Performance Modeling and Optimization for measures including energy, resilience, and speed
  • Computational Science including modeling, simulation and knowledge extraction
  • Recent Presentations
  • Parallel Sparse Solver Software
  • Research at the Scalable Computing Lab (SCL)

    • Current Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Joshua Booth
  • Anirban Chatterjee
  • Mike Frasca
  • Humayun Kabir
  • Shad Kirmani

  • Paul Philip
  • Caleb Severn
  • Manu Shantharam
  • Brad Suchoscki
  • Click here for more.

    • Research Funding (Partial List)

    Recent Professional Activities (Partial List)

  • General Co-Chair, 2011 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
  • Associate Editor, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing SIAM SISC.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distibuted Computing JPDC.
  • Editorial Board Member, SIAM Book Series on Computational Science, SIAM CS.
  • Co-Editor, with M. H. Heroux,   and H. D. Simon,     Parallel Processing For Scientific Computing, SIAM book series on Software, Tools, and Environments.
  • Member, National Academies Panel on Digitization and Communication Science
  • Member. Exceutive Committee, Board of Directors Great Lakes Petascale Computing Consortium
  • Member, Program Committee (multiple years) and Chair, Doctoral Showcase (2009) IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2005-2010 (SC'09)
  • Member, Program Committee, (multiple years) The 25th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
  • Member, Program Committee, The 25th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)

    • Education

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

  • CS 455 Numerical Analysis I
  • CS 456 Numerical Analysis II
  • CSE 450 (457) Concurrent Scientific Computing