Bill Gropp
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Biography
William Gropp is a professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and holds a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982 and worked at Yale University and Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He was Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 2016-2025. He chairs the Computing Community Consortium for the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has received numerous awards for his work in HPC.
Research Interests
- High Performance Computing
- Programming models for scientific computing
- Scalable Numerical Algorithms
- Scientific Computing
- Parallel Computing
Research Areas
- Computer Systems and Architecture
Reports
- Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017–2020, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The National Academies Press, 2016
Research Honors
- ACM Software System Award (2024)
- Sigma Xi (2018)
- AAAS Fellow (2018)
- ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award (2016 )
- SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2015)
- SIAM/SC Career Prize (2014)
- Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award (2013)
- SIAM Fellow (2011 )
- IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing (2010)
- Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering (2010)
- IEEE Fellow (2010)
- R & D 100 for PETSc (2009)
- IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award (2008 )
- ACM Fellow (2006)
- R & D 100 for MPICH2 (2005)
- Gordon Bell Prize, 1999, with Anderson, Kaushik, Keyes and Smith (1999)