Professor and Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iowa State University

3227 Coover Hall, Ames, IA 50011
Ph: 515-294-3539 / Fax: 515-294-8432
Email: aluru@iastate.edu

Welcome!

Srinivas Aluru is the Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He recently served as Chair of Iowa State's Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program. He conducts research in high performance computing, algorithms and systems for large-scale applications, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms.

Aluru published two books and more than 80 technical papers in journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He led 25 externally funded projects in the last 10 years including 16 from the National Science Foundation. He is a recipient of the NSF Career award (1997), IBM faculty award (2002), Iowa State University Foundation award for mid-career achievement in research (2006), two best paper awards (IPDPS 2006 and CSB 2005), two best paper finalist recognitions (SC 2007 and SC 2002). He served on numerous program committees in parallel processing and computational biology, including serving as program chair for HiPC 2007, program co-chair for BiCoB 2008, program vice chair for SC 2008, IPDPS 2007, ICPP 2007 and HiPC 2006. He co-chairs an annual workshop in High Performance Computational Biology and edited a comprehensive handbook on computational molecular biology, published in 2005.

Curriculum Vitae

CV (Pdf.)

Current Funded Projects

• S. Aluru (PI), M. Aluru, J. McCalley, K. Rajan, and A. Somani, National Science Foundation, $719,000, "CRI:IAD Acquisition of a Cluster and High Performance Storage for Dataintensive Applications in Materials Science, Power Systems and Systems Biology", April 2008 - March 2011.
• S. Aluru (PI), National Science Foundation, $102,600, "Collaborative Research: PACE - Parallel Accelerated Cartesian Expansions with Application to Molecular Dynamics", Sep 2007 - Aug 2010.
• A.K. Somani, S. Aluru (co-PI), R. Jernigan, R. Kanwar, J.D. McCalley and D.T. Rover, Department of Education, $506,688, "GAANN: Training Students for Computing Oriented Interdisciplinary Careers in Research and Education", Aug 2006 - Jul 2009.
• P.S. Schnable, S. Aluru (co-PI), U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, $283,000, "Building Consensus Genetic Maps for Maize and Wheat", July 2006 - June 2009.
• R.K. Wilson, W.R. McCombie, R. Martienssen, D. Ware, L. Stein, P.S. Schnable, S. Aluru (co-PI), R. Wing and S. Clifton, National Science Foundation, $29,500,000, "Sequencing the Maize Genome", Nov 2005 - Nov 2008.
• S. Aluru (PI), R. Jernigan, P.S. Schnable and A.K. Somani, National Science Foundation, $600,000, "Acquisition of a 512-node BlueGene/L Supercomputer for Large-Scale Applications in Genomics and Systems Biology", Aug 2005 - Jul 2008.
• S. Aluru (PI), National Science Foundation, $262,000, "Techniques and Tools for Parallel Solution of Irregular Problems", Nov 2004 - Nov 2007.
• S. Aluru (PI) and P.S. Schnable, National Science Foundation, $440,494, "Efficient Representation and Manipulation of Large-Scale Biological Sequence Data", Sep 2004 - Aug 2007.
• S. Aluru (PI), National Science Foundation, $144,000 (subcontract from New Mexico State University), "CREST: Center for Research Excellence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology', Sep 2004 - Aug 2009.

Recent Professional Activities

• Program Vice-Chair for Applications, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC), Austin, Texas, November 2008.
• Algorithms and Bioinformatics track chair, 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Doha, Qatar, April 2008.
• Program Chair, 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Goa, India, December 2007.
• Program Vice-Chair for Algorithms and Applications, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Si-An, China, August 2007.
• Program Vice-Chair for Applications, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), California, April 2007.
• Steering committee member, High Performance Computing Symposium, March 2007.