Australian National University

PhD Supervision

• Beau Johnston, February 2013 (completed), now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Sara Salem Hamouda, February 2014 (completed), post-doc INRIA Paris, now at Google Australia.
• Anish Varghese, March 2014 (advisory panel – completed), now at NTT Data.
• Yeu-Shin (Guyver) Fu, February 2018 (ongoing).
• Joseph John, February 2019 (submitted), now at National Computational Infrastructure.
• Fred Fung, March 2019 (advisory panel – submitted).

Semester-Length Courses

COMP2310/6310: Systems, Networks, and Concurrency (Lecturer) Semester 2, 2021.

COMP1110/6710: Structured Programming (Lecturer) Semester 1, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

COMP1110/6710: Structured Programming (Assistant Lecturer) Semester 2, 2017-2020.

COMP6700/COMP2140: Introductory Programming in Java (Lecturer) Semester 1, 2017.

COMP4300/COMP6430: Parallel Systems (Lecturer/Tutor) Semester 1, 2013.

COMP2310/COMP6310: Concurrent and Distributed Systems (Tutor) Semester 2, 2012.

Short Courses

Device-Agnostic Programming with Chapel Workshop (National Computational Infrastructure), 3 July 2024

Shared Memory High-Performance Computing Workshop, 10-14 February 2020 and 19-23 June 2023.

Accelerator Programming for High-Performance Computing Workshop, 8-12 April and 29 April-3 May 2019.

Partitioned Global Address Space Programming in Chapel (part of the Distributed Memory High-Performance Computing Workshop), 3 November 2017.

Student Research Projects

Capability and Performance Portability of the Chapel Language on Reduction Problems on Heterogeneous Architectures (with Xianghao Wang) Semester 1, 2024.

Analysis of Performance Portability of the Chapel Language across CPU Architectures using the TeaLeaf Mini-App (with Ahmad Azizi) 2023.

Performance Analysis of MiniBUDE Benchmark in the Chapel Language (with Xianghao Wang) Semester 2, 2022.

Architecture-Independent Workload Characterization to Support Benchmark Consistency (with Jingze He) Semester 1, 2022.

Dataflow Programming for the Next Generation of Parallel SAT Solvers (with Rohan McLure) 2021.

Exploring Best Practices of Kernel Optimization with Architecture-Independent Workload Characterization (with Tian Zhao) Semester 2, 2021.

Architecture-Independent Workload Characterization to Identify Inconsistencies in Cross-Language Benchmarks (with Benjamin Gray) Semester 1, 2021.

Chapel on Accelerators (with Rahul Ghangas) Semester 1, 2020 (with Allie Zhou) Semester 2, 2020.

Guiding Device Specific Optimization using Architecture-Independent Metrics (with Aditya Chilukuri) Semester 2, 2019.

Using Synthetic Benchmarks to Improve OpenCL Performance Prediction (with Tommy Liu) Semester 2, 2019.

Monte Carlo Simulation in Julia (with Ayush Patnaik) Semester 1, 2018.

Locality-Aware Message Passing with Array Channels in Julia (with Rohan McLure) Semester 1, 2018.

Analyzing Performance of Deep Learning Workloads on FPGAs (with Wei Wang) Semester 1, 2019.

Parallel Computing in the Julia Language Using the Intel Parallel Research Kernels (with Rohan McLure) Semester 2, 2018.

Evaluating Performance of the Chapel Language for High-Performance Computing (with Zixian Cai) Semester 1, 2018.

Implementing Mathematical Functions in a Unum Library (with Sidong Feng) Semester 1, 2018.

Designing Hardware Circuits for Unum Arithmetic (with Shouxu Lin) Semester 1, 2018.

Code Coverage for High Productivity Languages (with Zhan Yuan Hiu) Semester 2, 2013.