Honored to deliver today's Distinguished Lecture at @GWU_ECE! Always a pleasure to return to Washington and reconnect with old friends like @TarekElGhazawi. Great energy and fantastic questions from the students and faculty. Thank you for the warm welcome! #GWU #HPC

Beautiful day in the Lehigh Valley serving on the @LehighU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Advisory Council. Hard to beat Linderman Library as a meeting backdrop!

Yesterday @NJIT held AI Exploration Day: classes paused, 100+ student presentations, autonomous robots, industry panels with AWS/Google/NVIDIA/Cisco/Dell, and a campus-wide conversation about what AI demands of a university. news.njit.edu/ai-explorati...

Spoke with @CNBC about the rise of OpenClaw and what it signals for the AI industry. We're witnessing a classic platform shift. "The models become the engine; the agent framework becomes the car." 🔗 www.cnbc.com/2026/03/21/o...

Excited to be in Tucson this week as an @AcademicDataSci Champion for the 2026 Data Science and AI Leadership Summit! Looking forward to connecting with fellow leaders shaping the future of data science and AI in academia. #DataScience #AI #ADSA2026 alliance4datascience.ai

Pleased to speak with @BenLucasSherry at @Inc about the Pentagon's unprecedented designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" — the first time this label has ever been applied to an American company. What it means, and what it doesn't. www.inc.com/ben-sherry/t...

Today marks 41 years since my Eagle Scout Board of Review on March 7, 1985. The values of Scouting — leadership, service, and preparedness — have guided me throughout my career in computing and academia. Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle. 🦅 #EagleScout #NESA

Attending the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board meeting at The Watergate Hotel—where the walls have heard many important conversations, and today's about the future of computing research is no exception. #ComputingResearch

The future of AI infrastructure might be above our heads, not beneath our feet. Discussed with @CNN why moving data centers to orbit isn't just Musk's vision—it's becoming a necessity as we exceed Earth's power generation capacity. @chrisidore edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/b...

Excited to speak about data science to the Sigma Xi community at Portland State University (Oregon) today! It's a bit rainy, but at least it's warm.

Happy to be giving today's Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture at University of Portland (Oregon) and will be speaking on solving global grand challenges.

Enjoyed reading @OliverAlvaRod 's insights in the Chapel "7 Questions" series! Oliver shares his perspective on parallel programming, #HPC, and the future of Chapel. Great follow-up to my own interview last year. #ChapelLang Check it out: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/7...

Honored to receive the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems award at #SC25 for my time as Editor-in-Chief (2013-2017). Grateful to the exceptional authors, reviewers, and editorial board who made those years so rewarding. 🙏 Pictured here with current EIC, Xian-He Sun.

Great catching up with IEEE @ComputerSociety President Hironori Washizaki @ SC25 today! Always energizing to discuss the future of computing and HPC with fellow IEEE leaders. Looking forward to continued collaboration advancing our field. #SC25 #IEEEComputerSociety

Great to see my former PhD student Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez presenting Arkouda at the @HPE booth at #SC25! Proud of his journey from @NJIT to making an impact in large-scale data science at HPE. The future of HPC is bright! 🚀

Honored to be named an HPCwire Legend today at #SC25 for building the first Linux-based supercomputer. What started as a bold experiment in accessible, cost-effective HPC became the dominant architecture for supercomputers worldwide.

Excited to be back at #SC25 — around 35 years of attending the Supercomputing conference! 🔥🤯 The HPC community continues to inspire with its innovation, collaboration, and vision for the future. Here’s to many more breakthroughs ahead! #HPC #Supercomputing

Productive ADSA Board meeting today at the Sloan Foundation in Rockefeller Center, NYC. Thanks to @MicaelaParker for her leadership as we chart the future of academic data science & AI education and research. Important work happening in this space! #ADSA #DataScience

🎉 Congratulations to Candy Culhane on receiving the prestigious George Cotter Award at #CLSAC2025!

Spoke with @MarketWatch about NVIDIA's $100B OpenAI investment. This isn't bubble behavior—it's strategic infrastructure building and vertical integration across the AI stack. We're witnessing AI infrastructure mature as a legitimate asset class. www.marketwatch.com/story/why-nv...

Shared my thoughts with @TechStrongAI on the strategic implications of Nvidia's $5B investment in Intel. This partnership is about more than chips—it's about supply chain resilience, reducing geopolitical risk, and strengthening US semiconductor independence. 🔗 techstrong.ai/articles/nvi...

Just had a great discussion with @ReversingLabs about CISA's new procurement tool for third-party software risk management (TPSRM). The challenges are real, but so are the opportunities to innovate. 🔐 Read the full interview: www.reversinglabs.com/blog/cisa-to... #Cybersecurity

🚀 New blog post: How we're using multiple LLMs to revolutionize software performance optimization at Fastcode ✨ Feeding academic pprs + source code into AI models to uncover optimization opportunities that would take months to find manually 🔗 fastcode.substack.com/p/harnessing...

Another great week at Schloss Dagstuhl. And I'm now officially the 1st person to find all 95 Dagstuhl ghosts! 👻👻👻🎉👻👻👻 www.dagstuhl.de

Another exciting Dagstuhl seminar on Software Performance Engineering (and I've captured 86 ghosts already) www.dagstuhl.de/seminars/sem...

Congratulations 🎉 to Dr. Fuhuan Li, for successfully passing his PhD defense today on Large-scale Graph Algorithms and Applications with an Emphasis on FinTech Data @NJITYingWu @NJIT

🎉 Incredibly honored to be named to the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2025! Grateful to contribute to making HPC more accessible and impactful for humanity's biggest challenges. www.hpcwire.com/35-hpc-legen...

Honored to share insights with @TechNewsWorld on the important MIT study showing how over-reliance on AI may fundamentally alter human cognitive processes. As data scientists, we need to understand these neurological impacts as AI becomes more prevalent. www.technewsworld.com/story/mit-st...

I spoke with @decrypt about IBM's quantum roadmap and the timeline for fault-tolerant quantum computing. "A powerful quantum computer capable of running Shor's algorithm is still years away," but when it comes to blockchain security, "it's worth watching." decrypt.co/325183/ibm-q...

Bonjourno! Attending the 39th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium at Politecnico di Milano in Italy 🇮🇹 #IPDPS25

Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez, for completing his PhD and serving as the 2025 @NJIT PhD Commencement student speaker! @OliverAlvaRod @NJITYingWu bit.ly/3Y0yvbE

Excited to hear cloud computing pioneer Prof. Rajkumar @Buyya speak on "Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing" today at @NJIT! The Melbourne Uni professor and Manjrasoft CEO will cover elastic clouds, quantum computing, and future research directions. #CloudComputing #QuantumComputing

Very proud of my high school intern Sounak Bagchi from Edison Academy Magnet School in New Jersey. He's contributed significantly to our @NJIT research on motif finding in graphs and has accepted an offer to join MIT this fall!

Honored to join @RonBekkerman today for an engaging fireside chat at the @NJIT Leir Research Institute Symposium on AI's impact. Incredible to see such enthusiasm from the packed room as we explored the frontiers of generative AI in business and research. The future is already here! @NJITTuchmanBiz

Spoke on Democratizing Large-Scale Graph Analytics: From Supercomputing to Societal Impact at Dagstuhl Seminar 25171: Holistic Graph-Processing Systems: Enabling Real-World Scale and Societal Impact, here in Wadern, Germany.

Honored to be quoted in @TechNewsWorld about #AI in education. We must reimagine education for the AI era, focusing on higher-order thinking skills that complement rather than compete with AI. www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-rai... #DataScience #NJIT

Standing in front of the D-Wave 5000+ qubit annealing quantum supercomputer at Jülich Supercomputing Center, where I'm chairing this week's Helmholtz Association review of FZJ. @fz_juelich @helmholtz_en

Chairing the Helmholtz Association review committee of Forschungszentrum Jülich this week. The exascale supercomputer "JUPITER" is being installed behind me and will be one of the most capable supercomputers in the world! @fz_juelich @helmholtz_en

Attending the Academic Data Science Alliance (#ADSA) Leadership Summit at The Ohio State University's Translational Data Analytics Institute @OhioState @AcademicDataSci

NJIT's Bader, Who Helped Invent Modern Supercomputing, Gets Hall of Fame Honor

Proud to announce Dr. Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez successfully defended his PhD today! 🎓 His Arachne framework bridges HPC and Python-based graph analytics, with applications in scientometrics, cybersecurity, and neuroscience. Congratulations Oliver on this outstanding achievement!

I'm honored to receive the 2025 Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation 🏆 from the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art

Pleased to be featured in LAExaminer discussing how DeepSeek's efficient AI approach shows powerful models are becoming more accessible to innovators without massive resources. This shift will open doors across industries. buff.ly/v7vWB1K

Fruit Fly Research Led NJIT Scientists and Edison Teens to Better AI Habits on Supercomputers

I'm honored to be moderating an AI panel at the 2nd Rothberg Catalyzer AI Summit of the Americas #UMiami today. Looking forward to exploring groundbreaking advances with leading experts as we examine how fundamental AI research is reshaping our technological landscape. #RothbergCatalyzer @4Catalyzer

Welcome Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Director of @OhioState 's Translational #Data #Analytics Institute, giving a distinguished seminar today at @NJIT @NJITYingWu I'm very proud of Tanya and her accomplishments as I was her postdoc advisor a few decades ago. https://buff.ly/3WZvTfw

Spoke w/ @thehill about DeepSeek R1's impact on the AI landscape. This is a pivotal moment in US-China tech competition - China's agile development approach with DeepSeek has shown they can leapfrog conventional AI dev methods. This could be just the start of what's to come.

Spoke with @FastCompany about DeepSeek-R1: Open-sourcing helps attract top talent and fosters a developer ecosystem, accelerating innovation. The shared technical foundations in universities and conferences enable global researchers to build upon breakthroughs like o1. https://buff.ly/4hscCLp

Spoke with @BusinessInsider about DeepSeek's R1 release. Significant that they're making their model openly available - this democratizes AI by allowing anyone to fine-tune it for specific use cases without spending hundreds of millions on initial training. https://buff.ly/4jrPD4P #AI #OpenSource

Shared thoughts with @kifleswing @CNBC on @nvidia's Project Digits - bringing $100M supercomputing power to students for just $3K. Game-changing for #AI research and academia! #CES2025