DMRL Student Wins Microsoft Research Fellowship


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CSE PhD student Gregory T. Buehrer (advisor: Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy) has won a prestigious two year Microsoft Research Fellowship (sponsored by Microsoft Live Labs) starting Fall 2007. The Microsoft Research Redmond lab recognizes these fellows who represent the best and the brightest from North America. As noted on the Microsoft website these fellowships also build relationships between Microsoft Research and academic institutions that have a lasting effect. The competition for this award is usually very intense notes Dr. Parthasarathy. For the 2007 awards 17 winners were selected from among 62 finalists who were interviewed onsite at Microsoft Research Redmond Labs. The 62 finalists were themselves selected from among 190 initial applicants. This award represents the first such award from Microsoft Research to an Ohio State University graduate student in the 10 year history of the fellowship program. A list of all award winners for 2007 can be found at:
http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/fellowships/fellows_us.aspx

Greg is a member of the Data Mining Research Laboratory which is a part of the High End Computing Systems Group . Greg, works in the area of high performance data mining. Together with his advisor, Greg is investigating techniques to improve the efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms when deployed on emerging commodity architectures. Their most recent work in this area pioneered the design of an adaptive parallel graph mining algorithm for chip multiprocessors (CMPs). As a follow up to this work they are currently examining the performance of key data mining algorithms on the STI Cell Broadband Engine Architecture.

As part of the fellowship Greg will spend the summer of 2007 interning at Microsoft Research Live Labs. The award carries a 20K stipend and a conference allowance. All award winners will also be given a Tablet PC. The award is for two academic years.

This award follows on the heels of a strong showing at last years IBM PhD Fellowship Program competition and points to the budding strength of the graduate program at CSE. The CSE department congratulates Greg for this wonderful achievement and has great expectations from Greg in the future as he builds a strong research career in data mining.