Dr. Ashok Srinivasan received his PhD in 1996 from the University of California in Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty at Florida State University in 2001, after working at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among awards Dr. Srinivasan has received are the Ralph M. Parsons Fellowship for interdisciplinary research and the First Year Assistant Professor award from Florida State University.
Research
The primary research interests of Dr. Srinivasan include Scientific and High Performance Computing, Applications, Parallel Algorithms, Mathematical Software, Stochastic techniques for linear algebra, and Computational nanotechnology. His research is funded by NSF and DoD. Dr. Srinivasan developed the SPRNG Scalable Parallel Random Number Generation software, which is used by major organizations worldwide.
Selected Publications
- Latency tolerance through parallelization of time in scientific applications. A. Srinivasan and N. Chandra. Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, Proceedings of the 18 th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IEEE, April 2004.
- Testing parallel random number generators. A. Srinivasan, M. Mascagni, and D. Ceperley. Parallel Computing, Vol 29 (2003) 69-94.
- Efficient Non-parametric Density Estimation on the Sphere with Applications in Fluid Mechanics. O. Egecioglu and A. Srinivasan. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol 22 (2000) 152-176.
- SPRNG: A Scalable Library for Pseudorandom Number Generation. M. Mascagni and A. Srinivasan. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 26 (2000) 436-461.
