Srinivas Aluru

Aluru completed his B.Tech. in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the year 1989. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 1991 and 1994, both from Iowa State University. His doctoral thesis was "Distribution-independent hierarchical N-body methods”. ==Career and research==

Aluru began his career in 1991 as a research assistant at Ames Laboratory. After earning Ph.D., he briefly worked at Syracuse University as a visiting assistant professor before joining as an assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at New Mexico State University. In 1999, he returned to his alma mater to serve as a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. At Iowa State, he held Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering (2006–2009) and the Mehl Professorship (2009–2013). He chaired the interdepartmental bioinformatics program (2005–2007) and served as associate chair for research and graduate education in the ECE department (2003–2006). He won several university research awards including early career, mid-career, and outstanding research achievement awards, and led research in high performance computing and bioinformatics. In 2013, he shifted to the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. An early pioneer in big data, Aluru led one of the eight inaugural mid-scale NSF-NIH Big Data projects awarded in the first round of federal big data investments in 2012. He has contributed to NITRD and OSTP led white house workshops, and NSF and DOE led efforts to create and nurture big data research. He led the efforts to create the NSF South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, that nurtures big data partnerships between organizations in the 16 U.S. Southern States and Washington, D.C. ==Awards==

• AAAS Fellow, "for distinguished contributions to high performance computational biology, particularly for enabling large-scale genome analysis and systems biology through creation and application of novel parallel methods." (2010) • IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to computational biology." (2010) • SIAM Fellow, "for contributions to sequential and parallel discrete algorithms in computational genomics, and leadership in data science and engineering." (2020) • IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, "for pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology." (2025) {{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/srinivas-aluru|title=Srinivas Aluru, IEEE Computer Society ==Selected publications==

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