Presenter

Dr. Yanfei Guo holds an appointment as a computer scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory. He leads the ECP Exascale MPI project and is a member of the MPICH team. His research interests include parallel programming models and runtime systems in extreme-scale supercomputing systems, data-intensive computing and cloud computing systems. Yanfei received the Best Paper award at the USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing 2013 (ICAC'13). His work on programming models and runtime systems has been published at peer-reviewed conferences including SC14 and SC15, and in journals including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Yanfei has delivered talks and tutorials on MPI and MapReduce, including two tutorials on advanced MPI features, to audiences of various levels, from university students to researchers. Yanfei has served as a reviewer and technical committee member for many journals and conferences. He is a member of the IEEE and a member the ACM.