Professor
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 a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He serves as a faculty member in the interdepartmental Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate program, which he chaired from 2005 to 2007. From 2006 to 2009, he served as the Richard Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering in the College of Engineering. 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 90 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), Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award (2005), two best paper awards (IPDPS 2006 and CSB 2005), and 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 BIBM 2009, IC3 2009, 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 2006.

Curriculum Vitae

CV (Pdf.)

Current Funded Projects

• S. Aluru, M. Aluru and D.S. Nettleton, National Science Foundation, $375,000, "CPAACR: Parallel Algorithms and Software for Large Scale Microarray Data Analysis and Gene Network Inference", July 2008 - June 2011.
• S. Aluru, S. Balasubramaniam and S.J. Plimpton, National Science Foundation, $103,063, "SGER: Exploring Timescale Parallelization for Long-timescale Molecular Dynamics", May 2008 - Oct 2009.
• S. Aluru, 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, 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, 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 - Aug 2010.
• P.S. Schnable, S. Aluru, U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, $283,000, "Building Consensus Genetic Maps for Maize and Wheat", July 2006 - June 2010.
• R.K. Wilson, W.R. McCombie, R. Martienssen, D. Ware, L. Stein, P.S. Schnable, S. Aluru, R. Wing and S. Clifton, National Science Foundation, $29,500,000, "Sequencing the Maize Genome", Nov 2005 - May 2010.
• S. Aluru, Plant Sciences Institute Genomics Research Initiative, $56,982, Software Tools for Analysis of High-throughput Data from Next Generation Sequencers, Jul 2008 - Jun 2010.

Recent Professional Activities

• Program committee member, 8th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), Bengalooru, India, January 2010.
• Program committee member, 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Shenzhen, China, December 2009.
• Program vice-chair for cross-cutting computational methods and bioinformatics infrastructure, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington D.C., November 2009.
• Program committee member, 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Vienna, Austria, September 2009.
• Program committee member, 16th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), Saariselka, Finland, August 2009.
• Program committee member, 15th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON), Niagara Falls, New York, July 2009.
• Program committee member, Sequence Analysis and Alignment Area Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009.
• Program committee member, Protein Interactions and Networks Area Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Stockholm, Swden, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009.
• Workshop co-chair, "8th International Workshop in High-Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB), held in conjunction with 23rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 2009.
• Program committee member, 2nd IEEE TCPP Ph.D. Forum, held in conjunction with 23rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 2009.
• Program committee member, 5th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May 2009.
• Program Co-Chair, 1st ISCA International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiCoB), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2009.