Andrew Lumsdaine

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ABOUT ANDREW LUMSDAINE

After completing his BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Andrew held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame and at Indiana University. Prior to joining TileDB, he was a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Lab, with a dual appointment at the University of Washington. Andrew has worked in many areas related to high-performance computing, including systems, programming languages, software libraries, and large-scale graph analytics. Open source software projects resulting from his work include the Matrix Template Library, the Boost Graph Library, and Open MPI.His primary technical interest is High Performance Computing, interpreted broadly. The driving question behind this interest is:\"How do we write software that can get the highest performance out of a computer system?\" The computer system could be a laptop or it could be a leadership-class supercomputer. Getting high performance out of a program requires cooperation from the programming paradigm, the programming language, the compiler, software libraries, the runtime system, the operating system – and from the programmer.Of particular interest throughout most of his career has been scalable graph algorithms.He also has a side interest in computational photography, which turned out to be surprising fruitful.