Guy Blelloch
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| workplaces = Carnegie Mellon University
| alma_mater = Swarthmore College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Charles E. Leiserson
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| thesis_title = Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing
| thesis_year = 1988
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Guy Edward Blelloch is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.{{cite web | title=Guy Blelloch | website=Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department | url=https://csd.cmu.edu/people/faculty/guy-blelloch | access-date=2023-12-27}} He is known for his work in parallel algorithms.
Education and career
Blelloch went to Swarthmore College and graduated in 1983 with a BA in Physics and BS in Engineering. He then pursued a PhD in Computer Science at MIT and was advised by Charles E. Leiserson. He graduated in 1988 with a dissertation titled Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing.{{cite thesis |last=Blelloch |first=Guy |date=1990 |title=Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262023139/vector-models-for-data-parallel-computing |degree=Computer Science |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=9780262023139 |access-date=2023-12-27}}
Blelloch joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1988 and has taught courses on parallel algorithms and data structures.{{cite web | title=Guy Blelloch | website=Carnegie Mellon University | url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/ | access-date=2023-12-27}} From 2016 to 2020, he was also the associate dean of undergraduate studies.
Awards and recognitions
Blelloch was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2011.{{cite web | title=Guy Blelloch | website=Association of Computing Machinery | url=https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/blelloch_3352499 | access-date=2023-12-27}}
He was the recipient of 2021 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award in recognition of "contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them".{{cite web | last=Lovos | first=Milagros | title=Guy Blelloch | website=IEEE Computer Society | date=2021-02-03 | url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/guy-blelloch | language=en-US | access-date=2023-12-27}}
He was the recipient of the 2023 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for "contributions to algorithm engineering, including the Ligra, GBBS, and Aspen frameworks which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines".{{Cite web |title=Contributors to Algorithm Engineering Receive Kanellakis Award |url=https://awards.acm.org/xpages/kanellakis/index |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}}
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External links
- [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/ Personal website]
- {{mathgenealogy|id=49426|name=Guy Edward Blelloch}}
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