Bio
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.
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- 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: The team coached won the special judges award, Detroit.
- The team also won multiple championship awards in the State of Indiana, 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 at Supercomputing 2004 Nov. 2004 Poster won among 109 submissions. Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
- Innovation Award Oct. 2003 As a 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. Received the award on stage, coordinated across multiple National Labs the application was leading to the HPC Challenge award, Orlando, FL.
- 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 due to outstanding grades upon graduation