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Aaron Becker ^[1]

Aaron Becker,
an American mathematician, computer scientist and software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in 2004, and a Ph.D in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, where he was research assistant in the Parallel Programming Lab ^[2], working on finite element methods, a multiphase shared arrays library in Charm++, adaptive MPI, parallel state space search and compiler support for productive parallel programming ^[3]. Starting in 2009, he developed the chess engine Daydreamer.

Selected Publications

2008 ...

Sayantan Chakravorty, Aaron Becker, Terry Wilmarth, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2008). A Case Study in Tightly Coupled Multi-paradigm Parallel Programming. LCPC 2008
Aaron Becker, Isaac Dooley, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). Flexible Hardware Mapping for Finite Element Simulations on Hybrid CPU / GPU Clusters. SAAHPC 2009
Aaron Becker, Phil Miller, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). PGAS in the Message-Driven Execution Mode. PGAS 2009 ^[6]
Aaron Becker, Ramprasad Venkataraman, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). Patterns for Overlapping Communication and Computation. ParaPLoP 2009

Aaron Becker, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Distributed Memory Load Balancing. Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer
Phil Miller, Aaron Becker, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs. HIPS 2011
Aaron Becker (2012). Compiler Support for Productive Message-Driven Parallel Programming. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Laxmikant V. Kalé