Manish Parashar

Parashar received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India, in 1988. Following this, he moved to the United States to pursue higher studies, earning his Master of Science and PhD degrees in 1994, both in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Interpretive Performance Prediction for High Performance Parallel Computing. Before joining the University of Utah, he was a faculty member at Rutgers University.{{Cite web |last=vincenth |date=2022-07-01 |title=Parashar Named Presidential Professor |url=https://www.coe.utah.edu/2022/07/01/parashar-named-presidential-professor/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=The College of Engineering at the University of Utah |language=en-US}}

Parashar's academic career has focused on translational computer science, specifically on computational and data-enabled science and engineering, and has addressed key conceptual, technological, and educational challenges. His journey began with postdoctoral work in computational science at The University of Texas at Austin (1994-1995). He then joined Rutgers University in 1997, holding several faculty positions, eventually becoming a Distinguished Professor.{{Cite web |title=Parashar, Manish |url=https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/people/professors/details/manish-parashar |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=www.cs.rutgers.edu}} During his tenure at Rutgers, Parashar founded the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2), a research center to address grand challenges in computational and data-enabled science.{{Cite web |title=Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) |url=https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/component/content/article/268-655-rutgers-discovery-informatics-institute-rdi2?Itemid=101&catid=58 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=www.cs.rutgers.edu}} He also co-led the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC), which advanced Rutgers University's research and scholarly achievements through next generation computing, data science, and networking.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://oarc.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=Office of Advanced Research Computing |language=en-US}}

Parashar has also served as Program Director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (now Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure) at the US National Science Foundation between 2009 and 2011, where he focused on computational and data-enabled science and engineering research and education, software sustainability, cloud, and data intensive computing research programs, and managed an extensive research portfolio.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-16 |title=Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CISE/OAC) {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://new.nsf.gov/cise/oac |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=new.nsf.gov |language=en}} He was responsible for establishing several new programs, including Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI{{sup|2}}) and NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using Cyberinfrastructure (CI TraCS), and co-led the creation of the Computing in the Cloud (CIC) program.{{Cite web |date=2016-12-01 |title=Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SSE, SSI, S2I2) {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sse-ssi-s2i2-software-infrastructure-sustained-innovation/503489/nsf17-526 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=new.nsf.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=NSF 10-553: NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS) {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ci-tracs-nsf-fellowships-transformative-computational-science-using/503467/nsf10-553/solicitation |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=new.nsf.gov |language=en}}

As Assistant Director for Strategic Computing in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy(OSTP) in 2020, Parashar led the development of a national strategy for the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem and formulated the National Strategic Computing Reserve in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web |last=Friedlander |first=Manish Parashar,Amy |title=The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-needs-a-national-strategic-computing-reserve/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Scientific American |language=en}}

In 2023, Parashar completed a 5+ year IPA as Office Director for the Office of [https://new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/cyberinfrastructure Advanced Cyberinfrastructure] (OAC) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), where he oversaw NSF's investments in the exploration development, acquisition, and provisioning of state-of-the-art national cyberinfrastructure resources, tools, services, and expertise essential to the advancement and transformation of all of science and engineering. He developed NSF's strategic vision for a National Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem for 21st Century Science and Engineering that responds to rapidly changing application and technology landscapes and blueprints for NSF's key cyberinfrastructure investments over the next decade.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-24 |title=NSF-led National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Releases Final Report {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-led-national-artificial-intelligence-research |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=new.nsf.gov |language=en}} {{Cite journal |last1=Parashar |first1=Manish |last2=Friedlander |first2=Amy |last3=Gianchandani |first3=Erwin |last4=Martonosi |first4=Margaret |date=2022-07-21 |title=Transforming science through cyberinfrastructure |url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3507694 |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=65 |issue=8 |pages=30–32 |doi=10.1145/3507694 |issn=0001-0782 |s2cid=250925591|url-access=subscription }} A key element of this vision was ensuring equitable access and democratizing cyberinfrastructure's use and impact.{{Cite journal |last=Parashar |first=Manish |date=September 2022 |title=Democratizing Science Through Advanced Cyberinfrastructure |journal=Computer |volume=55 |issue=9 |pages=79–84 |doi=10.1109/MC.2022.3174928 |issn=1558-0814 |doi-access=free}}

In 2020, Parashar moved to the University of Utah, where he serves as the Director and Chair of Computational Science and Engineering at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and a Presidential Professor at the University of Utah's Kahlert School of Computing. He also leads the One-Utah Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative, a $100 Million University of Utah initiative aimed at harnessing translational AI to achieve societal good while protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties and promoting fairness, accountability, transparency, and equity. He is a Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science & Ethics of Technology Initiative (DATASET), part of the One-Utah Data Science Hub, which is developing an overarching data-science strategy for the University of Utah.

Parashar's work enables advanced application formulations, such as those based on dynamically adaptive, coupled methods and data-driven workflows, implemented on extreme-scale high-performance computing systems. His contributions have included data structures and algorithm innovations,{{Cite journal |last1=Qin |first1=Yubo |last2=Rodero |first2=Ivan |last3=Parashar |first3=Manish |date=May 2022 |title=Toward Democratizing Access to Facilities Data: A Framework for Intelligent Data Discovery and Delivery |journal=Computing in Science & Engineering |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=52–60 |arxiv=2112.06479 |bibcode=2022CSE....24c..52Q |doi=10.1109/MCSE.2022.3179408 |issn=1558-366X |doi-access=free}} programming abstractions, and runtime systems.{{Cite journal |last1=Steensland |first1=J. |last2=Chandra |first2=S. |last3=Parashar |first3=M. |date=December 2002 |title=An application-centric characterization of domain-based SFC partitioners for parallel SAMR |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1158265 |journal=IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=1275–1289 |doi=10.1109/TPDS.2002.1158265 |issn=1558-2183|url-access=subscription }} He has pioneered using autonomic computing techniques to address application/system complexity and uncertainty.{{Cite journal |last1=Jin |first1=Tong |last2=Zhang |first2=Fan |last3=Sun |first3=Qian |last4=Romanus |first4=Melissa |last5=Bui |first5=Hoang |last6=Parashar |first6=Manish |date=2020-12-01 |title=Towards autonomic data management for staging-based coupled scientific workflows |journal=Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing |language=en |volume=146 |pages=35–51 |doi=10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.07.002 |issn=0743-7315 |s2cid=225011569 |doi-access=free}} He has also deployed open-source software encapsulating these research innovations, directly impacting various applications.{{Cite journal |last1=Docan |first1=Ciprian |last2=Parashar |first2=Manish |last3=Klasky |first3=Scott |date=2012-06-01 |title=DataSpaces: an interaction and coordination framework for coupled simulaiton workflows |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-011-0162-y |journal=Cluster Computing |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=163–181 |doi=10.1007/s10586-011-0162-y |issn=1573-7543 |s2cid=36207749|url-access=subscription }}

Parashar is a leader in structured adaptive mesh refinement(SAMR) and one of the earliest researchers to address scalable SAMR.{{Cite journal |last1=Chandra |first1=Sumir |last2=Li |first2=Xiaolin |last3=Saif |first3=Taher |last4=Parashar |first4=Manish |date=2007-02-01 |title=Enabling scalable parallel implementations of structured adaptive mesh refinement applications |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-007-0110-z |journal=The Journal of Supercomputing |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=177–203 |doi=10.1007/s11227-007-0110-z |issn=1573-0484|url-access=subscription }} His research has included a theoretical framework for locality preserving distributed and dynamic data structures for SAMR, programming abstractions that enable distributed, dynamically adaptive formulations directly expressed, and a family of innovative partitioning algorithms that incorporate system/applications characteristics and mechanisms for actively managing SAMR grid-hierarchies.{{Cite book |last1=Parashar |first1=Manish |last2=Browne |first2=James C. |title=Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (SAMR) Grid Methods |chapter=Systems Engineering for High Performance Computing Software: The HDDA/DAGH Infrastructure for Implementation of Parallel Structured Adaptive Mesh |date=2000 |editor-last=Baden |editor-first=Scott B. |editor2-last=Chrisochoides |editor2-first=Nikos P. |editor3-last=Gannon |editor3-first=Dennis B. |editor4-last=Norman |editor4-first=Michael L. |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-1252-2_1 |series=The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications |volume=117 |language=en |location=New York, NY |publisher=Springer |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-1252-2_1 |isbn=978-1-4612-1252-2}} These contributions enable truly scalable SAMR applications and have led to realistic simulations of complex phenomena, such as colliding black holes and neutron stars, forest fire propagation, and fluid flows in the human heart.{{Cite journal |last1=Steensland |first1=J. |last2=Chandra |first2=S. |last3=Parashar |first3=M. |date=December 2002 |title=An application-centric characterization of domain-based SFC partitioners for parallel SAMR |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1158265 |journal=IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=1275–1289 |doi=10.1109/TPDS.2002.1158265 |issn=1558-2183|url-access=subscription }}

Parashar's research is in the broad area of high performance parallel and distributed computing and investigating conceptual models, programming abstractions, and implementation architectures that enable new insights through very large-scale computations and big data in a range of domains critical to advancing our understanding of significant natural, built, and human systems.{{Cite web |title=Biosketch |url=https://www.manishparashar.org/biosketch |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=Home |language=en-US}}

Manish Parashar has been honored with numerous prestigious awards highlighting his exceptional computing and cyberinfrastructure contributions. In 2024, he received the Computing Research Association (CRA) Distinguished Service Award for his impactful and multifaceted service to the computing research community.{{Cite web |date=2015-01-16 |title=Distinguished Service Award |url=https://cra.org/about/awards/distinguished-service-award/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=CRA |language=en-US}} The award was preceded in 2023 by the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, recognizing his groundbreaking work in distributed high-performance computing systems, data-driven workflows, and translational science.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-04-03 |title=Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award |url=https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/fernbach |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=IEEE Computer Society |language=en-US}} That same year, he was awarded the Achievement Award in High-Performance Distributed Computing at the [http://www.hpdc.org/ ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing] for groundbreaking work in high performance parallel and distributed computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and global leadership in cyberinfrastructure and translational computer science.{{Cite web |title=Manish Parashar Receives 2023 HPDC Achievement Award |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/manish-parashar-receives-2023-hpdc-achievement-award/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=HPCwire |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |title=Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3588195 |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=ACM Conferences |date=2023 |language=en |doi=10.1145/3588195 |last1=Butt |first1=Ali R. |last2=Mi |first2=Ningfang |last3=Chard |first3=Kyle |isbn=979-8-4007-0155-9 }}

Parashar's innovative contributions were celebrated with the [https://www.rd100awards.com/ R&D 100 Award] (2013) for his development of the "ADIOS: Adaptable I/O System for Big Data," a project that had a significant technological impact.{{Cite web |last=Hemsoth |first=Nicole |date=2013-09-04 |title=ADIOS Team Wins Award |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/2013/09/04/adios_team_wins_award/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=HPCwire |language=en-US}} The US National Science Foundation also recognized his academic achievements with the NSF CAREER Award (2000–2004), which acknowledged his early leadership and innovation in computational science.{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 9984357 - CAREER: Development of a Unified Data-Management and Interaction Substrate: An Integrated Research and Education Program for Enabling Distributed Computational Collaboratories |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9984357 |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=www.nsf.gov}}

Parashar has served the community in various leadership roles through his involvement with numerous technical committees. He was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in 2011, a Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS)in 2012,{{Cite web |date=2012-12-06 |title=AAAS - 2012 Fellows |url=http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2012.shtml |access-date=2024-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206060235/http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2012.shtml |archive-date=6 December 2012 }} and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2020.{{Cite web |title=2023 ACM Fellows Celebrated for Contributions to Computing That Underpin Our Daily Lives |url=https://awards.acm.org/fellows |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}} He was awarded the IEEE T&C Distinguished Leadership Award in 2021.{{Cite web |last=Little |first=Brookes |date=2018-05-01 |title=T&C Awards |url=https://www.computer.org/volunteering/boards-and-committees/technical-activities/awards |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=IEEE Computer Society |language=en-US}} He is the Founding Chair of the Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC). He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the [https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/td/about/14405 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems] (TPDS) from 2018 to 2022.{{Cite web |title=CSDL {{!}} IEEE Computer Society |url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/td/2017/12/08103890/13rRUwjoNwK |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=www.computer.org}} He also earned election to IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core in 2016.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-04-04 |title=Golden Core Recognition |url=https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/golden-core |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=IEEE Computer Society |language=en-US}}

Manish Parashar has co-authored over 400 technical papers, including publications in leading journals and international conferences. Notable works include his contributions to structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR), extreme-scale data management, autonomic scientific computing, and national and regional cyberinfrastructure. His key papers include:

Structure Adaptive Mesh Refinement

• Parashar, M. and Browne, J.C. (2000) ‘[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-1252-2_1 Systems engineering for high performance computing software: The HDDA/dagh infrastructure for implementation of parallel structured adaptive mesh]’, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, pp. 1–18. doi:[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-1252-2_1 10.1007/978-1-4612-1252-2_1].
• M. Parashar and J. C. Browne, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/495511 On partitioning dynamic adaptive grid hierarchies]," Proceedings of HICSS-29: 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Wailea, HI, USA, 1996, pp. 604-613 vol.1, doi: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/495511 10.1109/HICSS.1996.495511].
• J. Steensland, S. Chandra and M. Parashar, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1158265 An application-centric characterization of domain-based SFC partitioners for parallel SAMR]," in [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=71 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems], vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 1275-1289, Dec. 2002, doi: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1158265 10.1109/TPDS.2002.1158265].

Extreme-scale Data Management

• C. Schmidt and M. Parashar, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1210032 Flexible information discovery in decentralized distributed systems]," High Performance Distributed Computing, 2003. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Symposium on, Seattle, WA, USA, 2003, pp. 226-235, doi: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1210032 10.1109/HPDC.2003.1210032].
• Docan, C., Parashar, M. and Klasky, S. (2011) ‘[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-011-0162-y Dataspaces: An interaction and coordination framework for coupled simulation workflows]’, Cluster Computing, 15(2), pp. 163–181. doi:[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-011-0162-y 10.1007/s10586-011-0162-y].

Autonomic Scientific Computing

• Parashar, M. and Hariri, S. (2005) ‘[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11527800_20 Autonomic computing: An overview]’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 257–269. doi:[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11527800_20 10.1007/11527800_20].
• Jin, T., Zhang, F., Sun, Q., Romanus, M., Bui, H. and Parashar, M. (2020) ‘[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743731520303312 Towards autonomic data management for staging-based coupled scientific workflows]’, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 146, pp. 35–51. doi:[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743731520303312 10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.07.002]
• Hua Liu, M. Parashar and S. Hariri, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1301341 A component-based programming model for autonomic applications]," International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2004. Proceedings., New York, NY, USA, 2004, pp. 10-17, doi: 1[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1301341 0.1109/ICAC.2004.1301341].

National and regional cyberinfrastructure

• Rodero, I. and Parashar, M. (2019) ‘[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330376540_Data_Cyber-Infrastructure_for_End-to-end_Science_Experiences_from_the_NSF_Ocean_Observatories_Initiative Data Cyber-Infrastructure for End-to-end Science: Experiences from the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative]’, Computing in Science & Engineering, pp. 1–1. doi:[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330376540_Data_Cyber-Infrastructure_for_End-to-end_Science_Experiences_from_the_NSF_Ocean_Observatories_Initiative 10.1109/MCSE.2019.2892769.]
• M. Parashar, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9869577 Democratizing Science Through Advanced Cyberinfrastructure]," in Computer, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 79-84, Sept. 2022, doi: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9869577 10.1109/MC.2022.3174928].

Translational Computer Science

Parashar (along with David Abramson) pioneered the formalization of translational Computer Science (TCS) to complement traditional modes of computer science research and accelerate and amplify its impact. TCS refers to research that bridges foundational, use-inspired and applied research with delivering and deploying its outcomes to a target community. It supports essential bi-directional interplays where delivery and deployment processes inform the research.{{Cite web |title=Translational Computer Science |url=https://sites.google.com/view/translational-cs/home |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=sites.google.com |language=en-US}}

• D. Abramson and M. Parashar, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8812027 Translational Research in Computer Science]," in Computer, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 16-23, Sept. 2019, doi: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8812027 10.1109/MC.2019.2925650].

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• [https://www.manishparashar.org/ Website]
• Dr. Manish Parashar. [https://sci.utah.edu/people/parashar.html "Director & Chair in Computational Science and Engineering"]. [https://sci.utah.edu/ Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah]
• Parashar, Manish."[https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/people/professors/details/manish-parashar Professor]". Rutgers University

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