Dhabaleswar Panda

Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda is a Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.  He serves as the Director of the newly-established $20M NSF-AI Institute, ICICLE (https://icicle.ai). He has published over 500 papers in the area of high-end computing and networking.  The MVAPICH (High-Performance MPI over InfiniBand, Omni-Path, iWARP, RoCE, and Slingshot) libraries, designed and developed by his research group (http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu), are currently being used by more than 3,400 organizations worldwide (in 92 countries). More than 1.84 million downloads of this software have taken place from the project's site. This software is empowering several InfiniBand clusters (including the 15^th, 52^nd, and 72^nd ranked ones) in the TOP500 list. High-performance and scalable solutions for AI frameworks (Deep Learning and Machine Learning) from his group are available from https://hidl.cse.ohio-state.edu. Similarly, scalable, and high-performance solutions for Big Data and Data science frameworks are available from https://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu. Prof. Panda is an IEEE Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2022 IEEE Charles Babbage Award and the 2024 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award. More details about Prof. Panda are available at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~panda.