I am honored to receive this award and I would like to thank all those who have contributed their time, effort and enthusiasm to support my work, especially
@aydoz
and
@KathyYelick
.
Thank you,
@CornellCIS
, for the amazing support I have received in my first year as a faculty!
Congrats to
@GiuliaGuidi
, assistant professor of computer science at
@CornellCIS
, on winning the SIAM 2024 Supercomputing Early Career Prize! 👏👏
Guidi was selected for her “pioneering works bridging high-performance computing and computational biology."
“One day you’ll be my colleague”, told me a professor during my master’s defense, I laughed—but he was right.
I’m beyond happy and excited to say that starting next Spring I‘ll be part of the
@Cornell
family as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
@cs_cornell
! 1/n
This semester, two students have told me that they have fallen in love with HPC because of my course and want to pursue a career in HPC, and that is one of the absolute best parts of my job!
I’m thrilled to say I passed my qualifying exam yesterday and I’m officially a PhD candidate in Computer Science at
@UCBerkeley
—Thank you so much to my committee for the fruitful discussion and invaluable feedback
@joe_hellerstein
@DanRokhsar
@aydoz
@KathyYelick
1/n
It was a late afternoon of my first week of work —my advisor stopped by my desk, drew the routes to his favorite brewery and coffee shop on a piece of paper and told me to leave (then I knew it was a good fit).
I'm super happy to receive the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the
@UCBerkeley
GSI Teaching and Resource Center. I truly enjoyed my time as TA (GSI) for Applications of Parallel Computers—thank you to
@aydoz
,
@KathyYelick
, and Jim Demmel for nominating me!
A PhD applicant just emailed me to thank me for the guidance offered through the EAAA program (UCB) and follow up 1-1 interaction—they have been admitted to a top school program! I can’t think of a better way to start the weekend than “thank you for being an amazing guide”.
I recently asked a professor what would make a young faculty successful (but could apply to anyone really) and they said “You should have fun! If one is having fun, the chances they’re doing a terrible job are low”—and I have been thinking about that a lot.
If you’re looking for some summer reading, are bored of the usual stuff, and are looking for some real drama (kidding), here’s my PhD dissertation:
Officially Dr. Guidi—Got also my spot on
@CornellCIS
’s website!
I'm so happy to announce that the Equal Access to Application Assistance Program at
@Berkeley_EECS
is now accepting applications! The Equal Access to Application Assistance Program is aimed at assuring all students have someone to review their application before submission. 1/n
Ciao, today I spoke at the
@CornellCIS
Lunch and Learn seminar on the CS academic job search (mainly research track and US market or US-like market). I'm happy to share my slides here in case they might be helpful to other people!
PDF:
1/2
This is terrific —I’m honored to be one of the 2020 SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellows! I must thank my advisors (
@aydoz
and
@KathyYelick
) and my colleagues for not only supporting me but also challenging and motivating me every day.
Congratulations to the 2020 SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellows! These 12 students are bright, curious, and motivated to change the world. They will be recognized at the awards ceremony at SC20.
Hi all prospective grad students! I’m a proud co-organizer of the Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program at
@Berkeley_EECS
and I’m happy to announce that the 2021 edition is now accepting applications! Deadline: Oct 15, 2021 —Apply here:
Our updated preprint is out!
BELLA computes overlap detection as an efficient sparse matrix-matrix multiplication kernel. BELLA also introduces techniques from probability theory and high-performance computing not commonly used in sequence analysis.
It's a dark time, as my dog Sieger passed away unexpectedly earlier this week from an aggressive tumor—those who knew him know how special he was. I miss him terribly and he'll never be replaced. He accompanied me through grad school and offered me inimitable support and love.
I’m honored to be the winner of the
@issnaf
Mario Gerla award.
Professor Gerla's legacy is an inspiration, and I’m determined to continue in his spirit—I look forward to pushing the boundaries of HPC and using computation to work toward a better future for science and medicine.
Yay! Our paper “Space Efficient Sequence Alignment for SRAM-Based Computing: X-Drop on the Graphcore IPU” has been accepted to
@Supercomputing
2023💥
📄 preprint:
If you’re applying to grad school and interested in parallel computing for sciences, please consider applying to
@cs_cornell
and mentioning me in your application!
Turns out the people who said it was stressful to apply for faculty positions were not being overly dramatic —
Nonetheless, I am happy and excited to announce that I have decided to go on the academic job market this year! 💃
1/n Tips, job postings, and hugs are welcome!
In Berkeley we do it in reverse—I'll give my dissertation talk this Friday 10am PDT. If you'd like to attend, DM me for details!
I'll be in Berkeley until December as a Project Scientist at
@LBNLcs
and then I'll move to
@CornellCIS
as an Assistant Professor starting in January.
End the (what a) year on a high note: Our paper on how to build a overlap graph and perform transitive reduction on it in distributed memory using sparse matrices has been accepted to
#IPDPS
’21: . GG, O. Selvitopi, M. Ellis, L. Oliker,
@KathyYelick
,
@aydoz
Our paper “Space Efficient Sequence Alignment for SRAM-Based Computing: X-Drop on the
#Graphcore
IPU” has been featured in the
@CornellNews
and it'll be presented at
@Supercomputing
#SC23
by Luk Burchard on November 14:
#HPC
Better genome assembly — through AI? A hardware accelerator, developed for
#ArtificialIntelligence
operations, can speed up alignment of protein and DNA molecules, making the process up to 10 times faster than current methods.
@CornellCIS
@Supercomputing
Our paper "LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment" got into
#IPDPS20
! Our implementation achieves up to 181.6 GCUPS improving an application runtime by up to 10.6x.
@AlbertoZeni
, GG, M. Ellis, N. Ding,
@santambr
, S. Hofmeyr,
@aydoz
, L. Oliker,
@KathyYelick
"You know," (s)he said, "sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage [to write the first sentence of a paragraph or section]. Just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery [to write down some half-baked ideas]. And I promise you, something great will come of it."
I'm very happy to announce our paper "Distributed-Memory Parallel Contig Generation for De Novo Long-Read Genome Assembly" has been accepted at
@icpp_conf
2022!
CC: Gabriel Raulet,
@DanRokhsar
, Lenny Oliker,
@KathyYelick
, and
@aydoz
1\n
I was looking forward
#GI2019
to catch up with friends and talk about our recent work on long-read overlap detection and alignment via sparse-matrix multiplication. Unforeseen circumstances are preventing me to attend —I know Twitter will help me to keep on top of things, though!
I’ll be recruiting students!
I’m interested in parallel algorithms (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP, etc.) for genomics, in particular using combinatorics and high-level primitives, as well as in
#HPC
in the cloud and building scalable data analytics infrastructures across systems. 5/n
One thing I learned in grad school is to ask stupid questions. Because there’s a good chance they are not stupid at all —and if they are, you have just learned something anyway.
I'm very pleased to have been invited to give a talk at the minisymposium on Combinatorial Scientific Computing at
@TheSIAMNews
Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) 2023.
Looking forward to being in Amsterdam next February!
I saw compassion (or pity?) this morning in the eyes of passersby watching me shovel snow in the driveway where my car with California plates was parked.
I was talking today with an Italian graduate student who is also graduating this summer, and apparently, we were both introduced to research in northern Italy after being brutally dumped by our once-upon-a-time partner. Research as a cure for a broken heart.
I'm happy to start this semester by saying I have been invited to give a lecture for the "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" minisymposium
@TheSIAMNews
Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing on Feb 23—hope to see you in Seattle, pandemic permitting.
Got my 2nd dose yesterday and just got the news that both my grandmas and my mom have a vaccine appointment in the next week or so —I can now really enjoy a little fever and a couch potato day
To Italian computer science 💻 students interested in continuing their academic career in the US: DM if you are interested in joining a Slack workplace for 🇮🇹 researchers in the 🇺🇸 or for 🇮🇹 researchers abroad interested in continuing their career in the 🇺🇸.
I am honored I have been invited to contribute to International Journal of Orthodontics because of my invaluable expertise and contribution to this field. Great job me!
A student just sent me a very nice email thanking me for my teaching (assistantship), and man, I'm going to print it out, frame it, hang it on the wall right behind my laptop, and read it out loud several times a day.
Driving across the country from California to New York during winter I’m completely reevaluating temperatures — I’m now happy to see the car thermostat showing 30F
Today is Father's Day in Italy - I haven't seen mine in exactly 425 days. I can't wait to hug my family again. But for now I just wish them vaccinated and safe, we'll make up for lost time. I miss you & I love you.
A fiend just sent me this and it’s so gorgeous—Can’t wait to be in Ithaca tomorrow to catch up with
@CornellCIS
colleagues for the rest of week and do some leaf peeping!
10 days to apply to the Equal Access to Application Assistance program at
@Berkeley_EECS
!
It's an excellent opportunity to get feedback on your PhD application before submitting it—RTs are welcome!
If you are a prospective PhD student applying to
@Berkeley_EECS
, you can submit your application to EAAA for feedback until October 8th 2022 (ten days from today)!
I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that classes were starting soon and the chair told me I had to teach a second class, a “surprise” class on a topic only tangentially related to my research. That class was scheduled for 7 am on Fridays.
I'm preparing the schedule and material for the advanced parallel computing course I'll be teaching in the fall, and I have no idea how to fit so much cool stuff into 15 weeks. Please send good vibes and decision-making capacity.
I'm very excited to be a speaker for the "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" minisymposium! Come by tomorrow, 1pm for Part I and 3 pm for Part II (PDT).
#MS19
#SIAMPP22
PSA: There is a very interesting mini at
#SIAMPP22
on "Graph Algorithms in the Exascale Era" with a great line up of speakers that will talk about very exciting graph problems. You don't want to miss it.
#MS19
I'm looking forward to visiting
@EPFL
next week and giving a talk at
@ICepfl
(18 Aug, 10:15 CET, room BC 420) entitled "Sparse Matrices and High-Performance Computing Meet Biology" —meet me there if you're around and curious ;) tips on what to visit in Lausanne are very welcome!
God I’m way past the age I can take a 5am flight and be alright. I lost 10 years of life when the alarm went off at 2.30am and it’ll take me 48h to recover—apologies to whoever will have to interact with me today and tomorrow.
Apparently, my family is coming to California for the holidays and they’re bringing the rain with them from Northern Italy—I apologize on their behalf.
Giulia has done so many things right that one day I hope to use her time in Berkeley as a primary example in a “how to succeed in grad school” presentation. It has been a real pleasure working with you so far,
@giuliaguidi
. Cornell is lucky to have you.
Getting a dog has been the best decision I've made since I started grad school —we can discuss my general decision-making ability another time. Grad students, adopt a puppy/kitty, you'll thank me later. Here's my fav shelter in the Bay Area
@MiloFoundation
.
Our paper "LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment" got into
#IPDPS20
! Our implementation achieves up to 181.6 GCUPS improving an application runtime by up to 10.6x.
@AlbertoZeni
, GG, M. Ellis, N. Ding,
@santambr
, S. Hofmeyr,
@aydoz
, L. Oliker,
@KathyYelick
I was thinking about the $20 bongo burger sandwich I often had for lunch in grad school yesterday when eating perfectly cooked spinach spätzle with speck for $12 in front of the CS department in Trento.