Edgar Solomonik

Edgar Solomonik
Edgar Solomonik
Associate Professor
(217) 300-4794
4229 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

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Education

  • PhD, University of California Berkeley, 2010-2014, Thesis title: Provably Efficient Algorithms for Numerical Tensor Algebra, advisor: James Demmel
  • BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2010

Academic Positions

  • Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016-present
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, 2014-2016, advisor: Torsten Hoefler

Research Interests

  • tensor computations
  • numerical optimization
  • numerical linear algebra
  • parallel and high performance computing
  • communication-avoiding algorithms
  • communication lower bounds
  • electronic structure calculations
  • graph algorithms
  • quantum computing

Research Areas

Chapters in Books

  • Laxmikant Kale and Edgar Solomonik; Parallel sorting; Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer Verlag, David Padua, Ed., 2011.

Selected Articles in Journals

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Reports

Research Honors

  • C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021)
  • UIUC Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (2021)
  • UIUC List of Instructors Ranked as Excellent (2020)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2020)
  • SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Early Career Prize (2020)
  • IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing (2018)
  • Alston S. Householder Prize (2017)
  • ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014)
  • David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize (2014)
  • ACM-IEEE George Michael HPC Fellowship (2013)
  • NERSC Award for Innovative Use of High Performance Computing (2013)
  • Distinguished Paper Award, Euro-Par (2011)
  • DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (2010)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 420 (CSE 402, ECE 492) - Parallel Progrmg: Sci & Engrg
  • CS 450 (CSE 401, ECE 491, MATH 450) - Numerical Analysis
  • CS 554 (CSE 512) - Parallel Numerical Algorithms
  • CS 598 EVS - Tensor Computations