People | Kalyan Perumalla

Principal Investigators

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Selected list of areas and Principal Investigators (PIs) or Co-PIs of R&D projects I managed as part of my diverse program management portfolio (2023-2025).

The R&D activity in my portfolio manifests as multi-institutional, multi-year projects led by principal investigators who are researchers from national laboratories, university faculty, and industry entrepreneurs.

PI/Co-PI	Institution	Area
AI-for-Science Program
Harshitha Menon	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	AI RA2 - Software
Keita Teranishi	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	AI RA2 - Software
Computer Science Base Program
Tammie Borders	National Energy Technology Laboratory	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Dirk Van Essendelft	National Energy Technology Laboratory	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Michael James	Cerebras Systems, Inc.	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
John Shalf	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Keita Teranishi	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
Franz Franchetti	Carnegie Mellon University	Competitive Portfolios - Computer Science
SciDAC Program
Lenny Oliker	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SciDAC - Computer Science Institute (RAPIDS2)
Rob Ross	Argonne National Laboratory	SciDAC - Computer Science Institute (RAPIDS2)
Quantum Computing Program
Travis Humble	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Quantum Science Center (NQISRC)
Irfan Siddiqi	University of California, Berkeley	Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT)
Susan Clark	Sandia National Laboratory	Quantum Scientific Computing Open Userer Testbed (QSCOUT)
Quantum Networking Program
Yanne Chembo	University of Maryland	Quantum Networking
Eden Figueroa	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Rajkumar Kettimuthu	Argonne National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Joeseph Lukens	Purdue University	Quantum Networking
Inder Monga	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Cristian Pena	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Nick Peters	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Nageswara Rao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Mariam Kiran	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Panagiotis Spentzouris	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Quantum Networking
Don Towsley	University of Massachusetts	Quantum Networking
EXPRESS Program
Kevin Brown	Argonne National Laboratory	EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Emily Dolson	Michigan State University	EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Jason Liu	Flordia International University	EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Nandakishore Shanti	Los Alamos National Laboratory	EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
Luis Zaman	University of Michigan	EXPRESS - Space Time Memory
SBIR/STTR Program
Vijay Hanagandi	OSI Opt	SBIR - Mixed Integer Programming
Caitlin Ross	Kitware, Inc	SBIR - Digital Twins
Pranav Gokhale	Infleqtion, Inc	SBIR - Quantum Computing
Keiko Munechika	HighRI Optics, Inc	SBIR - Quantum Networking
Sowmya Ramachandran	Stottler Henke Assoc. Inc	SBIR - Artificial Intelligence/LLM
Svitlana Volkova	Aptima, Inc	SBIR - Artificial Intelligence/LLM

Advisors

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Salutations to my kind preceptors from whom I learned the ABC’s of research, tenacity, hardwork, and integrity

Prof. Richard Fujimoto

Aug 1993 - Dec 1999
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Regents’ Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Doctoral Thesis Advisor
Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, High Level Architecture, Network Simulation, Reversible Computing, High Performance Computing, and more
Co-developed artifacts

Prof. Udaya Vemulapati

Aug 1991 - Jun 1993
University of Central Florida
Now: Founder
uDASH Information Technologies

Master’s Thesis Advisor
Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Computational Linear Algebra, and more
Co-developed artifacts

Postdoctoral Advisees

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Pedigree that makes me proud in the lineage of knowledge generation and dissemination

Dr. Sudip Seal

Nov 2007 - Nov 2009
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Now: Senior R&D Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Parallel Algorithms, High Performance Computing
Co-developed artifacts

Dr. Alfred Park

Nov 2010 - Nov 2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Now: Software Engineer
Microsoft, Inc.

Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Reversible Computing
Co-developed artifacts

Dr. Maksudul Alam

Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Now: Research Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HPC, GPU-based Algorithms, Simulation, Graph Generation
Co-developed artifacts

Dr. Olivera Kotevska

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Now: Research Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems
Co-developed artifacts

Co-advised Students

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Students I co-advise(d) as committee member in their doctoral or master’s program

Kimia Ameri

Sep 2019 - Present
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Now: Doctoral Student | Graduate Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Advisor: Prof. Hamid Sharif, UNL
Co-developed artifacts

Dr. Philipp Andelfinger

Feb 2014 - Feb 2016
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Now: Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Rostock

PhD Thesis
“Identifying and Harnessing Concurrency for Parallel and Distributed Network Simulation” Advisor: Prof. Hannes Hartenstein, KIT
Co-developed artifacts

Dr. Bilel Romdhanne

Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
EURECOM/Telecom ParisTech, Nice, France
Now: Research Scientist
Amadeus Labs, Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

PhD Thesis
“Simulation des Réseaux à grande Échelle sur les architectures de calcules hètèrogénes” Advisor: Prof. Navid Nikaein, Telecom ParisTech
Co-developed artifacts

Doctoral Students

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Persevering and creative minds whom I train in deep thought to reach the peak of their formal education

Dr. Srikanth Yoginath

Aug 2007 - Aug 2009
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: R&D Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Graduation and Thesis
“Virtual Time-Aware Virtual Machine Systems”
Co-developed artifacts

Aradhana Soni

May 2021 - Jan 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Now: Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Data Science, Graph-based Methods
Co-developed artifacts

Rupam Dey

May 2021 - May 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Now: Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Data Science, Synthetic Data Generation
Co-developed artifacts

Sabbatical Guests

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Faculty members I had the pleasure of serving as the host for their sabbaticals and performing joint research with them

Prof. Kamesh Madduri

May 2017 - Aug 2018
Pennsylvania State University
Now: Associate Professor

Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Algorithms

Prof. Viveck Cadambe

Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Pennsylvania State University
Now: Associate Professor

Information Theory, High Performance Computing

Graduate Interns

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Highly motivated, disciplined and hardworking graduate students with whom I had the pleasure of learning advanced technologies together

Aakriti Upadhyay

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
State University of New York, Albany
Now: PhD student
University at Albany, SUNY

Efficient Sparse Matrix Computations on Graphical Processing Units

James Fox

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: PhD Student
Georgia Institute of Technology

Community Detection-based Generation of Electric Distribution Network Graphs

Amin Nikakhtar

Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Texas Tech University
Now: Senior Data Scientist
Mayo Clinic

Doctoral thesis research proposal “Polynomial Optimization for Optimal Power Flow and Assured Generation”. Competitively selected under the U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program

Till Koester

Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
University of Rostock, Germany
Now: Research Associate
The University of Rostock

High-Performance Simulations of Cell Biology Models on Modern GPUs
Co-developed artifacts

Maksudul Alam

Jan 2016 - May 2016
Virginia Tech
Now: Research Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“Computational Support for Cloning Simulations
Co-developed artifacts

Zhengchun Liu

Jan 2016 - May 2016
U. Barcelona, Spain
Now: Assistant Computer Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory

High Performance Agent-based and Discrete Event Simulations

Maksudul Alam

May 2015 - Aug 2015
Virginia Tech
Now: Research Staff Member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“Computational Support for Cloning Simulations
Co-developed artifacts

Masatoshi Hanai

Jan 2015 - May 2015
Durham University (UK), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Southern University of Science and Technology

Exact-Differential Simulations” (mentored while at Durham University, UK
Co-developed artifacts

GEM Fellows

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Fellows of the highly selective National GEM Consortium I had the privilege of hosting and mentoring through advanced research internships in my projects

In the past few years, the following brilliant GEM Fellows in the GEM Fellowship Program of the National GEM Consortium (National Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc.) worked with me on advanced research projects.

Kingsley Nwosu

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Virginia Tech
Now: Data Platform Engineer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to Cyber-physical Systems
Co-developed artifacts

Cora Chanel Richardson

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Duke University, Tufts University
Duke University

Quantum Optimization and Reversible Computing applied to Electric Grid Resilience
Co-developed artifacts

Alejandro Vega Nogales

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Indiana University, University of Puerto Rico
Now: Computer Science & Engineering PhD student
University of Notre Dame

Machine Learning Techniques applied to Cyber-Physical Systems
Co-developed artifacts

Undergraduate Interns

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Brilliant undergraduate students who worked with me as interns in multiple projects over the years, some even winning us best paper awards

Matthew Street

Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
Middle Tennessee State University

Visualizing Rollbacks in Parallel Discrete Event Simulations
Co-developed artifacts

Brandon Aaby

Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
Maryville College

High Performance Hybrid Computing using Networks of Processors and GPGPUs
Co-developed artifacts

Clayton Thurmer

Jan 2008 - May 2008
Oberlin University

Discrete Event Simulator Benchmarking
Co-developed artifacts

Brandon Aaby

Jun 2007 - Dec 2007
Maryville College

Social Science Simulations on GPGPUs
Co-developed artifacts

Patrick Wilkerson

Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
Austin Peay State University

Parallel FDTD as Asynchronous Speculative Execution
Co-developed artifacts

John Wright

Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
Mercer University

Reversibility of Computational Methods
Co-developed artifacts

Kathleen Abercrombie

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Georgia Tech

Cut Selection in Sensor Network Optimization
Co-developed artifacts

Eric Beier

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Texas A&M

Federated Optimization of Sensor Networks
Co-developed artifacts

Alfred Park

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Georgia Tech

Integrated Analysis of Sensor Networks
Co-developed artifacts

Jason Roop

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
N. Carolina Central

Social Network Simulation using GPGPUs
Co-developed artifacts

High School Interns

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Powerful talent blossoms early, like these budding technologists I had the pleasure of mentoring before they went onto college and launching startups

Charles Elliott (CJ) Johnson

May 2015 - Aug 2015
L&N STEM Academy

Message Passing Interface in JavaScript
Co-developed artifacts

Melissa Yu

Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Farragut High School

Memory-Efficient Reversible Algorithms for Integer Square Root Computation
Co-developed artifacts

Programming Teams

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

My associations in programming contests – team members I coached at Georgia Tech, and my own coach when I was a team member at UCF

My Coach

David Van Brackle

Aug 1991 - May 1993
University of Central Florida)
Now: Contest Chief Judge (multiple years)
ISX

ICPC Page | ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest Coach - Southeast Regionals

My own coach at the University of Central Florida (UCF) was David Van Brackle. UCF is well known in the US Southeast Region as nearly always at the top in ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contests. Our faculty advisor was Dr. Ali Orooji. My team placed 2nd and 8th in the Southeast Region in 1991 and 1992, respectively.

After completing my Master’s, I moved from UCF to Georgia Tech for my PhD work, where I started coaching the Georgia Tech teams and took them to a few top spots (Southeast Regional toppers, finalists, and to two World Finals contests in Nashville, USA and Eindhoven, Netherlands). After a few years of coaching the Georgia Tech teams, I had to stop coaching to focus on my PhD research. At that time, David was in Atlanta, and I invited him to take over as the Georgia Tech coach, which he did and took them to great heights.

Members I Coached

Below are a few great programmers who happened to be in the teams I coached at Georgia Tech.

Vu Pham

Jan 1995 - Jan 1998
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Data Science Consultant
Chameleon Collective

ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest - Regionals and World Finals (Eindhoven)

Peter Lindstrom

Jan 1995 - May 1995
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Computer Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest - Regionals and World Finals (Nashville)

Brian McNamara

Jan 1995 - May 1995
Georgia Institute of Technology

ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest - Regionals and World Finals (Nashville)

Corey Rhoden

Jan 1995 - May 1995
Georgia Institute of Technology

ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest - Regionals and World Finals (Nashville)

David Minnen

Jan 1996 - Aug 1997
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Software Engineer
Google

ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest - Regionals and World Finals (Eindhoven)