Kamesh Madduri is an associate professor in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and was previously a Luis W. Alvarez postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Lab. His current research interests include high-performance graph analytics, algorithms for combinatorial problems in computational genomics, and applied machine learning for transportation data analysis. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2013), a co-recipient of the best paper award at the 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (2013), and was awarded the first Junior Scientist prize by the SIAM Activity group on Supercomputing (2010).