Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago

Overview

Rick Stevens is associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences. He heads Argonne's advanced computing initiative targeting the development of petaflop/s computing systems. He is also a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago and is senior fellow of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute, a multidisciplinary institute aimed at connecting computing to all areas of inquiry at the University and the Laboratory. In addition, he heads the Argonne/Chicago Futures Lab, a research group he started in 1994 to investigate problems in large-scale scientific visualization and advanced collaboration environments (his group in the Futures Lab has developed the widely deployed Access Grid collaboration system. 

Prof. Stevens is interested in the development of innovative tools and techniques that enable computational scientists to solve important large-scale problems effectively on advanced scientific computers. Specifically, his research focuses on three principal areas: advanced collaboration and visualization environments, high-performance computer architectures (including Grids), and computational problems in the life sciences, most recently the computational problems arising in systems biology. In addition to his research work, Prof. Stevens teaches courses on computer architecture, collaboration technology, virtual reality, parallel computing, and computational science.

Curriculum Vitae of Rick Stevens   >>  under construction

Current Professional Activities and Program Organizing Committees

7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Program Committee, 1998

11th International Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Chairman, (Sept. 2-4, 1998), 1998

POWR Workshop (Petaflops Systems Operations Working Review), Program Committee, June 2-5, 1998

Adjunct ANL Representative, SLCC (System for Labs Computing Coordinating Committee), 1998

Hybrid Technology Multithreaded Computer Architecture for Petaflops Computing (HTMT), Advisory Committee, 1998

DOE-ER Computational Sciences Core Working Group, Committee Member, 1998

State of the Fields Sessions, Supercomputing ’98, Chair, November 8-13, 1998

International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS 98), Program Committee, March 30-April 3, 1998

Deep Computing Institute, IBM Research (member, Executive Board), 1999-2005

2nd Conference on Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing, 1999

7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Processing Frontiers ’99, Program Committee, 1999

8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999

University of New Mexico, Computer Science Advisory Committee, 1999

Distributed Applications Support Team (DAST) of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR), External Advisory Committee, 1999

Supercomputing ’99, Technical Papers Committee, November 13-19, 1999

VA Linux Systems Advisory Council, 1999

Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, Executive Committee Member 1999

Senior Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory,  2000-present

National Computational Science Alliance, Chief Architect, 2000-2005

Chair of the NSF STARTAP Advisory Committee, March 2000

Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA2000), Program Committee, 2000

HPDC2000, Program Committee, 2000

Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee, October 2000-2006

Advisory Board for Insors Communication, 2000-present

Strategic Planning Group for Center for Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, 2000-2005

BioComputing 2001, DOE, Steering Committee, 2001

Board of Computing Activities and Services (BCAS), University of Chicago, Member 2001-2004

Elsevier:Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Editorial board,         October 2002–Present  

IPDPS'2005, The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Program Committee, Denver, Colorado, 2005

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Group, 2004

US/UK ETF Experiments Steering Committee, 2004

International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics."  The Symposium, Program Committee, 2005  

Council on Competitiveness Advisory Committee for High Energy performance Computing, 2006-present

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Director's Review of Computing Science, May 25-26, 1999, April 12-13, 2000, and Sept. 20-22, 2006

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Program Committee, 2007  

SciDAC PI Chair, 2007

Research Projects and Program Management

DOE Mathematics and Computational Sciences Program
Computing and Communications Infrastructure Futures Laboratory
Advanced Visualization Technology Center, DOE, Defense Programs
National Computational Science Alliance, NSF PACI Program
HTMT Petaflops Design Project, DARPA
NCSA Alliance 
ASCI Advanced Visualization Technology Center
Corridor One: An Integrated Distance Visualization Environment for SSI and ASCI Applications
The Computation Institute

Teragrid, NSF, 2001-2004

A Data Intense Challenge: The Instrumented Oilfield of the future, NSF, 2002-2006

NMI - Extensible Network Services for the AccessGrid, NSF, 2002-2004

Acquisition of TeraPort: A Grid Enabled Analysis Platform with Optical Connectivity, NSF, 2003– 2006

Bioterrorism: Molecular Analysis and Intervention, NIH, 2003– 2005

Advanced Biomedical Tele–Collaboration Testbed in Surgery, Anesthesia, and Emergency Medicine, National Library of Medicine 2003–2006

Towards a Digital Psychology Laboratory, University of Chicago, 2003–2004

Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, NIH/NIAID, 2003–2005

Teragrid Early Operations, NSF, 2004–2005

Establishing a National Leadership Computing Facility:  A Partnership in Computational Sciences, DOE, 2004–2008

National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR) Center in Support of Infectious Disease Research, NIH, 2004–2007

Social Informatics Data (SID) Grid, NSF, 2005-2007

Dynamic Adaptive Multithreading, NSF, 2005-2009

Recent Presentations