Jason Riedy

Current

Research Scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Student Researcher at CS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Past

Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Intermont College
Student System Administrator at CISE Department, University of Florida
Researcher at CISE Department, University of Florida

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Education

University of California, Berkeley
University of Florida

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Jason Riedy’s Summary

Research in sparse linear algebra, dense linear algebra, high-performance computing, parallel computing, combinatorial optimization, floating-point arithmetic, and image analysis.

Developed portions of LAPACK and ScaLAPACK. Enhanced TAUCS and SuperLU. Contributed to GNU Octave, GNU Emacs, R, git, etc.

Long-term interesting questions:

- Which applications benefit from computing precise results with targeted software arithmetic?

- How can libraries hide the increasing latency gap between each level of computing hardware?

- Can formal semantics enable faster, safer floating-point compiler optimizations?

- Where are the appropriate trade-offs between loose coupling and high performance is system and library design?

- Is a linear-time (O(vertices+edges)) bipartite matching algorithm possible?

- How do we evolve programming languages to support multicore computing's huge design space?

Jason Riedy’s Specialties:

sparse linear algebra, dense linear algebra, image analysis, parallel computing, language analysis, floating-point arithmetic, high-performance computing, scalable services, free software, open services

Jason Riedy’s Experience

Research Scientist

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Graduate Student Researcher

CS Department, University of California, Berkeley

(Research industry)

August 1998 — Present (11 years)

Sparse and dense high-performance linear algebra. LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU development. Parallel computing course assistance.
Adjunct Faculty

Virginia Intermont College

(Higher Education industry)

August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

Teaching general mathematics and mathematics for elementary education majors.
Student System Administrator

CISE Department, University of Florida

(Research industry)

August 1994 — August 1998 (4 years 1 month)

Maintenance of servers and file systems for CISE Department, Univ. of Florida. Including performance tuning, troubleshooting, file system backups, and end-user support.
Researcher

CISE Department, University of Florida

(Research industry)

January 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 8 months)

Work on Image Algebra (image analysis) and the IAC++ library: SIMD parallel optimization, edge detection, geometric hashing.

Also work on sparse matrix partitioning methods.

Jason Riedy’s Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1998 — 2008

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, expected Fall 2008, 3.8 GPA. Adviser: Dr. James Demmel. Thesis: Making Static Pivoting Scalable and Dependable.

Associated projects: SuperLU, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, XBLAS, IEEE-754r
University of Florida

B.S. , Computer Science, Mathematics , 1992 — 1995

B.S. with Honors, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Florida, 1995, 3.8 GPA.

Associated projects: Image Algebra

Activities and Societies:

Association for Computing Machinery, Society of Physics Students