• Kazem receives honourable mention for the 2022 SIGHPC Dissertation Award!
  • Avery wins the 2022 Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
  • Kazem successfully defends his PhD thesis and joins McMaster University as a Assistant Professor from July 22.
  • Saeed Soori successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis on communication-avoiding machine learning methods.
  • NASOQ accepted at Siggraph 2020 is a full-space solver for Quadratic Programs that outperforms the best QP solvers available.
  • MatRox is accepted at PPoPP 2020, ASYNC is accepted at IPDPS 2020, and Dave-QN is accepted at AISTATS2020.
  • Check out our new papers at PLDI19, Dave-QN, and ASYNC!

  • Kazem Cheshmi wins First Place in the 2017 Grand Finals of the ACM’s Student Research Competition for our work on “Decoupling Symbolic from Numeric in Sparse Matrix Computations.” The SRC Grand Finals are the culmination of a year-long competition that involved more than 300 students presenting research projects at 25 major ACM conferences.

  • Our research on “Communication-Efficient Algorithms for Machine learning” receives an NSF award.

  • Zachary Blanco receives the James Leroy Potter Award for research excellence.

  • Maryam Dehnavi receives the NSF CRII grant on Performance-in-Depth Sparse Solvers for Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms.
  • Aadtiya wins best poster award at the Rutgers engineering research symposium.