Gregor von Laszewski is a Research Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia. He has long-standing experiences in High-Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, and Grid Computing. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise, he has made significant contributions to the fields of High-Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, and Grid Computing. His interests are in making the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure easier for application scientists. He is currently involved in Deep Learning Application performance studies and analytics service workflow management. He likes also to work with students on research projects. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Syracuse University in 1996. He held in the past positions at GMD (now Fraunhofer), NASA, Argonne National Laboratory, and Indiana University.
- Awards and Honors
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Volunteer Award. 2025
- Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). Jun. 2025 DIMPLES: Distributed Influence Maximization for Pandemic pLanning on Exascale Systems, Minutoli, M. and Neff, R. and Sattar, N.S. and Lu, H. and Feo, J. and Mortveit, H. and Vullikanti, A. and Xie, D. and Wilson, M.L. and von Laszewski, G. and Bhattacharya, P. and Ferdous, S.M. and Kalyanaraman, A. and Becchi, M. and Marathe, M. and Halappanavar, M.
- Achievement Award. MLCommons Science Working Group efforts 2022
- Best Staff Award. Sept. 2018 School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
- Special Judges award at the FLL Robotics World Championship 2018 Team coached won the special judges award, Detroit. The team also won multiple championship awards in the State of Indiana (2016–2018): 2016-2017 1st Place Programming Award; 2017 B3 FLL QT Best Core Values; 2018 B3 FLL QT Best Project award; 2017-2018 Southern Indiana Overall Champion’s Award; 2018 Southern Indiana Best Presentation Award; 2018 All Girls Champion FLL Challenge.
- Sandia National Laboratories Recognition Award Mar. 2005 Member of the CMCS Team, Livermore, CA, U.S.A.
- Overall best research poster among 109 submissions, Supercomputing Nov. 2004. Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
- Chicago Innovation Award Oct. 2003 As member of the Globus Project, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Department of Energy Outstanding Mentor Award Apr. 2003 Argonne, IL, U.S.A.
- Best of Show award in the High-Performance Computing Challenge Supercomputing’ 98 Nov. 1998 Received the award on stage, coordinated across multiple National Labs the application was leading to the HPC Challange award, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
- Fellowship, University Space Research Agency (USRA) at Goddard Space Flight Center. 1995 Fellowship, The Ohio State University. 1990
- Overall best student paper at Supercomputing’ SC’92. Oct. 1992
- Department for Education and Research, Germany Sep. 1989 Financial waiver by due to outstanding grades upon graduation.