I am an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. I received my Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) under supervision of Achi Brandt and Dorit Ron. In Fall 2012, I joined the School of Computing at Clemson University. I was also a Faculty Scholar of the Clemson University School of Health Research. Before that I was at the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory. My undegraduate school is Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).
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Research Interests
- Quantum computing
- Graph Algorithms, Network Science
- Machine Learning, AI
- Hypothesis Generation, Text Mining, NLP
- Combinatorial Scientific Computing
- Multiscale and Multilevel Algorithms
Funding
Total over $6.5M- NIH
- DARPA
- NSF
- BMW
- Greenville Hospital System
- Department of Education
My Erdös number is 3 (Safro-Brandt-Gillis-Erdös, Safro-Sanders-Wormald-Erdös), and this is my Ph.D. genealogy tree (courtesy Mathematics Genealogy Project)
Recent Professional Activities
- Editorial Boards:
• IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
• Springer Nature Computer Science, Section "Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies"
• Algorithms
• PLOS ONE (Machine Learning, Data Mining and Network Science Areas)
• Journal of Data Intelligence
- (co)Organizer:
• Co-Chair of the Quantum Algorithms Track in IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering 2024
• Mini-symposium "Scaling Up Quantum and Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms" at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing 2024 • Leibniz Center for Informatics, Dagstuhl Seminar "Scalable Graph Mining and Learning", 2023 (1 week)
• IEEE/ACM International Worshop on Quantum Computing 2022
• Quantum Computing mini-cluster at INFORMS 2021 (several sessions on quantum optimization and machine learning and tutorial on quantum combinatorial optimization)
• Tutorial "Tutorial on Combinatorial Optimization on Quantum Computers" at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE20)
• Mini-symposium "Recent Advances and Trends in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms" at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP20)
• Tutorial "Combinatorial Optimization on Quantum Computers" at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP20)
• Leibniz Center for Informatics, Dagstuhl Seminar "High-performance Graph Algorithms", 2018 (1 week)
• Session on "Scalable Algorithms for Networks" at International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2015
• Leibniz Center for Informatics, Dagstuhl Seminar "High-performance Graph Algorithms and Applications in Computational Science", 2014 (1 week)
• ICiS Workshop "Graph and Hypergraph Problems in Computational Science", 2012 (1 week) - Program Committee Member
• Supercomputing 2024
• International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2024
• SIAM Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing 2024
• IEEE/ACM International Worshop on Quantum Computing 2022
• IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ACM KDD 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2022, 2024
• CIKM 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Online Conference on Algorithms (ALG2021)
• International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 (QC-CSAA, co-located with IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI)
• International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM) 2023, 2024
• International Workshop on Literature-Based Discovery (LBD 2020)
• INFORMS Optimization Society 2020 (IOS2020)
• International Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing 2019
• International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
• IEEE Cloud Summit 2019
• SIAM Workshop in Combinatorial Scientific Computing 2016 (SIAM CSC16)
• Learning and Intelligent Optimization 2011, 2012, 2013 (LION11-13)
• IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Network Science 2013 (NSW13) - Advisory Board Member
• The Swiss Innovation Lab
• Quantum Startup Foundry at Maryland
• The International Artificial intelligence and Quantum Technology Foundation - Grant Panels: NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, internal panels in schools and national labs
- Consulting: McKinsey and Company, Coleman Research Group
Our Research Group in News
- Quantum Computing and Finance: Researchers explore quantum computing’s ability to speed solutions for financial sector, 2024
- UDaily: A Quantum Phenomenon, 2024
- UDaily/For the record: Best student paper award at IEEE HPEC 2022 for the optimal tensor network contraction paper
- Concentrating on Connections, our work on automated scientific hypothesis generation is featured in UDaily
- Artificial intelligence could aid in fight against COVID-19
- Combing the best of quantum computing and classical computing
- The best of both worlds: how to solve real problems on modern quantum computers
- Future of Medicine - Man or Machine?
Big Data: Future of Medicine - Man or Machine? from Clemson University on Vimeo.
- Summer internship of Ruslan Shaydulin
- Our promo video featured at ACM KDD 2017